Tears and Tantrums describes a new way of understanding the purpose of crying during infancy and childhood. This revolutionary book (now translated into Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish) will help you improve your relationship with children, whether you are a parent, caregiver, teacher, or health professional. You will gain a better understanding of why babies and children cry, and you will learn how best to respond. Other benefits of this approach include:
Helping babies sleep through the night (without ignoring them).
Helping children heal from stress and trauma.
Increasing children's attention span and intelligence.
Improving children's self-esteem and emotional health.
Reducing children's violent behaviour and hyperactivity.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - a helicopter full of farm animals? It's this wacky premise that catches kids' attention, but the underlying message of this book is about the power of positivity - that when you believe in yourself, anything is possible. Ralph, the hero of the book, won't take no for an answer. When his father tells him he will buy him a bicycle 'when pigs fly', Ralph cheerfully takes his father's comment to heart and sets about devising a way to get his... More info
Young readers will learn to appreciate creative expression as the busy bees dance, sing, juggle and declaim in the style of well-known Broadway performers. When Bambina Bee asks Grandma why bees sing, Grandma takes her on a tour of all the different types of performance that let little bees express what they feel in their hearts—from Choir Bees to Ballerina Bees to Shakespearean Bees to Acrobat Bees! With engaging four-color illustrations by the award-winning Lyn Martin and an embedded sound chip with an original song, readers will not be... More info
Ever since Winston Churchill popularised the phrase Black Dog to describe the bouts of depression he experienced for much of his life, it has become the shorthand for the disease that millions of people suffer from, often in shame and silence. Artist and writer Matthew Johnstone, a sufferer himself, has written and illustrated this moving and uplifting insight into what it is like to have a Black Dog as a companion. It shows that strength and support that can be found within and around us to tame it. Black... More info
