Begins with the philosophy and psychology underpinning the therapeutic value of story telling. This book shows how to use story telling as a therapeutic tool with children and how to make an effective response when a child tells a story to you.

This is a guidebook to help children who: "are missing someone too much or suffer from separation anxiety"; are obsessed with their absent parent "yearn for a parent who: has died; seems unreachable, although she is right there; or is loving one minute and indifferent, cold or abusive the next". They yearn because they have been taken into care, fostered or adopted.

A guidebook to help children who bully or take revenge on others for the pain they have felt themselves.

One day Teenie Weenie finds himself in a scrumbly screechy place. It is full of noises and crashes and things that swoop and scratch. The worse it gets, the smaller Teenie Weenie feels. After a while, he feels so small that the tiniest insect tries to eat him up. Teenie Weenie feels terrified and desperately alone.

Hattie lives by herself on an island. She likes sharks, and crabs and stinging centipedes. She likes anything hard and spiky. Lots of people try to bring kindness to Hattie on her island, but each time she is very horrid to them, smashing and spoiling everything they try to do for her. So after a while they all stop coming to the island.

This practical guidebook, with a beautifully-illustrated storybook, enables teachers, parents and professionals to help children aged 4-12 connect with unresolved feelings affecting their behaviour.

This is a guidebook to help children who:

• worry a lot or exhibit signs of ongoing anxiety
• experience the world as an unsafe place
• suffer from phobias, obsessions or nightmares
• are scared to tell someone that they are scared
• know a terrible loneliness
• feel insignificant in a world of adult giants
• feel defeated by life or...

This practical guidebook, with a beautifully-illustrated storybook, enables teachers, parents and professionals to help children aged 4-12 connect with unresolved feelings affecting their behaviour.

Helping Children with Low Self-Esteem is a guidebook to help children who:

• don't like themselves or feel there is something fundamentally wrong with them
• have been deeply shamed
• have received too much criticism or haven't been encouraged enough
• let people treat them badly because they feel they don't deserve better
• do not accept...

This practical guidebook, with a beautifully-illustrated storybook, enables teachers, parents and professionals to help children aged 4-12 connect with unresolved feelings affecting their behaviour.

This is a guidebook to help children who:

• are suffering from the pain of loss or separation from someone or something they love deeply
• have had a parent, relative or important friend leave or die
• are obsessed with their absent parent
• have lost someone they love, but have never really mourned
• are trying to manage all their painful feelings...

Bipley is a warm cuddly creature, but someone has broken his heart. He feels so hurt that he decides to ever love again. When he meets some Honks in the wood, they teach him how to harden his heart so that he doesn't have to feel hurt any more. Luckily he meets some creatures who teach him how he can protect himself without hardening his heart.

A story to help children pursue their hopes and dreams. Mildred is a pea with dreams. She has great plans for her pea life. However, people are always telling her that dreams are pointless as she is just another ordinary pea. Finally, with the help of a kind person along the way, Mildred ends up doing exactly what she has always dreamed of doing.