How are you feeling today? Being able to ask and answer this question is a key stage in children’s development and essential for maintaining good relationships with friends and family, effective learning, and good mental health. This fun, friendly and reassuring introduction is designed to help young children recognise, understand and name different feelings and learn to talk about and manage…
This funny, charming story is the perfect way to introduce young children to choices, and helps them find ways to make decisions and understand consequences. Also included are suggestions for activities and ideas to talk through together to help children understand their behaviour.
Flora the Fairy enjoys school. But one day, her teacher tells them they will be tested on their magic skills the next day. They have to change the class dragon, Smoky, into something else, and back again. All the children start practising but, try as she might, Flora can't remember the words of the spell. She keeps getting it wrong! Even her friend Harry can do it right – what will Flora's mu…
Flora the fairy loves going to visit Nana and Grandpop. But she is scared of their cat Rufus. He stares at her and silently follows her around. When Rufus has to stay outside because of her, Flora feels bad. What is she going to do? Luckily Nana and Grandpop have a plan to show Flora that Rufus only wants to be friends – with the help of a little fairy magic!
Baboons can be so mean! When Alfie the baboon falls out with his best friend, Alfie thinks he'd be better off living with humans. After all, they're never mean and they never argue. Or do they? Children will respond to the mixture of mischief and mayhem, but the story also emphasizes the need to be a good friend and to make up after falling out.
The lake has frozen over and it's ice skating time! Stanley and Arthur are having the best time ever, but then the weather starts to warm up...
When Stanley Lampchop joins the rounders team, he finds that being flat can help him play. But not everyone thinks flat players should be allowed...
Meet the queen in this sweet story by Anne Fine, perfect for children learning to read. Pip’s class are sending big red helium balloons off to celebrate their school’s 100th anniversary. They ask the people who find them to tell them how far they’d gone. One lands just down the road, one is found in the next town – but Pip’s flies all the way to Buckingham Palace! And Pip gets an i…