Books

Maybe I’m a Rainbow

Learning to identify and recognise emotions in oneself and others is an important part of a child’s emotional and social development. Children are often confused by their emotional experiences and are unsure what is happening to them.

“Maybe I’m a Rainbow” is a story that helps children explore the many different feelings they can have in a fun and colourful way. It helps children understand that it is normal to have both positive and negative emotions.

Assisting children in understanding their emotions and giving them the tools to manage these emotions effectively can help them feel in control in difficult situations and allow them to have healthy relationships.

The Angry Feeling

Anger is a feeling that many people, if not all, experience at some time in their lives. Children often struggle dealing with anger as it makes them feel uncomfortable and can cause them to act out. Acting out usually draws negative attention to them and this sometimes leaves them feeling even more angry and helpless.

Anger is often seen as a bad feeling, when in fact it is perfectly natural to feel angry. The trick is to know how to deal with it.

The “Angry Feeling” is a book that helps children to understand what anger is, how to recognise it and most importantly how to express it in an appropriate way.

The Worry Pot

Children are often faced with situations that are very hard for them to understand and which evoke difficult feelings within them. Sometimes children are overwhelmed dealing with these feelings and are left helpless, powerless and incredibly anxious.

“The Worry Pot” helps children understand what worry is and how it can affect them.

It gives children the opportunity to learn how to take back some control, freedom and peace of mind by using strategies that the “Worry Pot” offers.

The Monkey Bunch

Conflict is something that all children face at some time in their development. This is a normal part of growing up and building interpersonal relationships.

Dealing with bullying on the other hand is quite different. When a child is faced with a situation in which they are teased, hurt or abused by another child and feel that they are unable to defend them- selves, they are being bullied.

Many children that experience bullying are left feeling angry, sad, helpless and shamed.

“The Monkey Bunch” tells the tale of a bunch of monkeys who start out as friends and then are faced with a bullying incident within the group. It reveals the difficult feelings they experience and how they learn to protect themselves.

It is always useful for a child to have some idea of how to deal with conflict situations appropriately, as it gives them a sense of empowerment and confidence.

The Brave Little Birds

There are a number of children that have been exposed to abuse, whether it be by a stranger or someone known to them. The effects can be devastating to a child and can evoke fear that prevents them from disclosing.

“The Brave Little Birds” is a book which helps children understand how easily something like this can happen and how important it is to tell someone if it does.

The little birds experience of trauma and how they coped with it can be a useful tool in helping children deal with abuse, tell their story and normalise their feelings of fear and helplessness.

Something Scary Happened

Now days it is not uncommon for a child to have been faced with a traumatic event. This kind of experience often leaves a child overwhelmed with feelings they don't know how to deal with. Some children find itdifficult to speak about whathappened and by holding onto the pain develop physiological symptoms, emotional difficulties, social withdrawal or acting out.

“Something Scary Happened” is a story about a little girl who experiences a traumatic event, how she struggles with the effects and how she finds a way to heal from it.

The Confused Ducklings

The Confused Ducklings is a story about a family of ducks that experience a major change within their family. By exploring the ducklings experience of parental conflict, separation and loss children are able to identify with this situation and deal with the difficult feelings associated with the adjustment.

There are many families that experience divorce or separation and the impact can be quite devastating.

“The Confused Ducklings” can help normalise a child’s reaction to the change and allow them to feel less alone in the process.

It can also be a useful guide for parents who are unsure of how to prepare their children for their pending separation and how to assist them in adjusting.

The Lilly Floated Away

Losing someone or something important to you, whether through death or separation, can be very difficult to understand and accept, especially for a young child. They are often left confused, sad, angry and curious as to how and why it happened.

“The Lilly Floated Away” looks at the process of dealing with loss, and the questions and emotions it evokes in those left behind. It offers a simple explanation which can be built on as more questions are asked as the child gets older.