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Category: Emotions
From award-winning New Zealand author, Craig Phillips, creator of The Adventures of Jack Scratch and Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts (winner of the Russell Clark Award for Illustration at the New Zealand Book Awards 2018).Come along on a journey with Aroha, as she wards off nervousness, fear, worrying t ...Show more
Category: Self-Esteem & Fitting In
High on energy and imagination, this ode to self-esteem encourages kids to appreciate everything about themselves inside and out. Messy hair? Beaver breath? So what! Here's a little girl who knows what really matters. At once silly and serious, Karen Beaumont's joyous rhyming text and David Catrow's wil ...Show more
Category: Separation & Divorce | Series: Dino Life Guides for Families
This picture book helps young children and their families deal with the anxieties of divorce. Simple, direct text and lively illustrations. "Friendly dinosaurs in the throes of difficult divorce situations reassure readers in similar straits that everything will be all right." --Publishers Weekly Ages ...Show more
Category: Emotions
Little Volcanoes is a practical book that helps teach children to handle their anger in a constructive way. It does this by looking at the causes of anger such as hurt, loss and fear. It helps parents and other caregivers to help children under 5 to deal more positively with their angry thoughts and fee ...Show more
Category: Separation & Divorce
Mum and Dad don't live together any more, so sometimes this little girl lives with her mum and her cat, and sometimes she lives with her dad. She has two bedrooms and two sets of toys, but she takes her favourite toys with her wherever she goes. This simple, warm, lift-the-flap book with bold and colou ...Show more
Category: Self-Esteem & Fitting In
Celebrating all that makes each person unique and different, this award-winning book, with its myriad of faces, offers new ways to talk about race and identity and introduces a strong message of loving oneself and others sure to appeal to parents of the youngest readers. Full color.
Category: Issues
From the bestselling author of Living with IT and Taming the Black Dog comes a practical guide for parents of anxious children. If your child is too often: seeks reassurance, invents illnesses, avoids interactions, avoids trying new things, becomes emotional over minor upsets, or is clingy, afraid to s ...Show more
Category: Illness
A warm and delightful picture book for the children and grandchildren of those with Parkinson’s, that shows how they can help and has useful information for everyone. Grandma’s Brain can be read to children who have a parent or grandparent with Parkinson’s. She hopes kids enjoy the st ...Show more
Category: Emotions
Wherever Jenny goes, her worries follow her - in a big blue bag. They are there when she goes swimming, when she is watching TV, and even when she is in the lavatory. Jenny decides they will have to go. But who can help her? The Huge Bag of Worries was written by Virginia Ironside, one of Britain's lea ...Show more
Category: Emotions
When a frog questions why he is blue and not green like the other frogs, his friends try to make him see how special being blue is. He comes to understand that he is blue because he is blue--and that's enough of an answer. This is a sweet story about identity and self-acceptance, one that children can a ...Show more
Category: Families
And these are the things we find by the sea / My mummy, my mama, my brother, and me. With this gentle refrain, the debut picture book from celebrated author and playwright Natalie Meisner (Double Pregnant) reflects on her own two-mum, two-son family's early days growing up in Lockeport, Nova Scotia, Ca ...Show more
Category: Grief
With 400,000 copies sold, this accessible, bestselling picture book phenomenon about the unbreakable connections between loved ones has healed a generation of readers--children and adults alike--and has been updated with new illustrations and an afterword from the author. Now available in paperback for ...Show more
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