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  • Tabitha and the Raincloud

    Tabitha and the Raincloud

    When Tabitha wakes up on the wrong side of the bed, she finds a big raincloud next to her. She tells it to go away, but it won’t budge. At school, she tries to draw a giraffe, but the raincloud distracts her and her art teacher compliments her on her dinosaur! By lunchtime Tabitha is so stormy none of her friends want to sit next to her. Tabitha realises she needs to change her attitude.

    An empowering story of resilience and the importance of optimism.

     

     

    SPECIFICATIONS: 9781925820133 | Hardback | 245 x 255 mm / 9.5 x 10 inches | 32 pages | Colour

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  • Together Things

    Together Things

    $24.99

    When her father feels sad, a little girl finds ways to keep the bonds of love alive

    Her mother says you can’t see her daddy’s hurt because it’s inside his head …

    One in five adults experiences depression in their lifetime, but young children are often left in the dark when their mother or father suddenly can’t play like they used to.

    Together Things helps young children to understand that, while it is okay for them to feel mad or sad about this, sometimes they must do different things together while their parent focuses on their mental health and getting better.

     

     

    SPECIFICATIONS: 9781925820294 | Hardback | 245 x 255 mm / 9.5 x 10 inches | 32 Pages | Colour

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  • Grey-glasses-itis

    Grey-glasses-itis

    $19.99

    Life’s Brighter When You’re Not Wearing Grey Glasses!

    The fourth book in the popular ‘Lessons of a LAC’ series, Grey-glasses-itis helps children to understand the link between how they see things and how they feel. Loppy notices that he feels differently when he looks at the world around him through different-coloured glasses. Yellow glasses make him feel cheerful. Grey glasses make him feel sad. Children will learn that a simple shift in perception can often give them some influence over their feelings, helping to build their emotional resilience.

     

     

    SPECIFICATIONS: Paperback | 305 x 230 mm | 12 x 9 inches | Colour | 32 Pages

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  • Lessons of a LAC

    Lessons of a LAC

    $19.99

    It can be hard to stop worrying when you’re a Little Anxious Creature!

    Lessons of a LAC is an essential resource tool, presented in an engaging picture-book format, to help children manage their worries and anxieties. Through the characters of Loppy LAC (‘Little Anxious Creature’) and Curly the Calmster, kids discover a useful way to think about their anxieties — the first crucial step in managing them. This is the first book in the gorgeous ‘Lessons of a LAC’ series, designed to give children ways to think about and manage common emotional difficulties.

     

     

    SPECIFICATIONS: Paperback | 305 x 230 mm / 12 x 9 Inches | Colour | 32 Pages |

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  • Perfect Petunias

    Perfect Petunias

    $19.99

    Perfect Petunias is a book especially for those little people who find it hard to make mistakes, designed to ’shape’ perfectionistic tendencies towards being a little more self-accepting and flexible.

    Loppy LAC is very worried about not doing his homework well enough. He is always focusing on what he hasn’t done rather than what he has, and he becomes very frustrated. So, his friend Curly teaches him about how petunias grow — in lots of different, imperfect directions that we can’t control! Loppy learns that by trying to control whether he makes mistakes or not it’s as if he’s always trying to grow ‘perfect’ petunias. Sometimes he just needs to accept that things go a certain way and to change his definition of ‘perfect’ to mean trying his absolute best.

     

     

    SPECIFICATIONS: Paperback | 305 x 230 mm / 12 x 9 Inches | Colour | 32 Pages |

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  • Ollie's Treasure

    Ollie’s Treasure

    Price range: $8.99 through $24.99

    Happiness is Easy to Find if You Just Know Where to Look!

    Ollie’s Treasure is tale of mindfulness for young, developing minds. Ollie’s grandma sends him a treasure map that promises to lead him to ‘something that will make him happy always’.

    Of course, Ollie thinks this ‘something’ will be a toy of some sort, but he gets both a rude shock and a big surprise when his treasure turns out to be him!

     

     

     

    Shortlisted for Speech Pathology of Australia Awards 2018! Congratulations Lynn and Kirrli!

     

    SPECIFICATIONS: Hardcover/Paperback | 215 x 288 mm | Colour | 32 Pages |

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  • Smile Cry: Happy or sad, wailing or glad – how do you feel today?

    Smile Cry

    Price range: $14.99 through $19.99

    Happy or sad, wailing or glad –how do you feel today?

    A fun, flip-over picture book for children that reads from both front and back. Smile Cry is an innovative picture book for young kids, showcasing the full emotional range of their formative years. Readers’ follow three adorable characters — piglet, bunny and cat — as they react emotionally to a variety of events and circumstances from everyday life.

    The clever ‘flip book’ format means that the ‘Smile’ story reads from front to back, while the ‘Cry’ story reads from back to front, with both delicious narratives meeting in the middle. A heartfelt picture book that will be treasured for years, Smile Cry is perfect for ages 3 and upwards.

     

     

     

    Winner of the SCBWI Crystal Kite Book of the Year Award 2017 (Australia and New Zealand),  Selected for the 2017 Children’s Book Council of Australia Notables List! Congratulations Tania and Jess!

     

    SPECIFICATIONS: Hardcover/Paperback | 215 x 288 mm / 8½ x 11¼ Inches | Colour | 32 Pages |

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