Magnificent Me
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A wonderful new children’s book written by Daisy Dagg and illustrated by Kaille and Marie Harris.
This story takes the young reader on a journey of the imagination, winding through a series of possible things you could be in life. It ultimately loops back to the beautiful value of just being happy to be yourself. This important focus aims to encourage self-love and self-acceptance within kids from a young age.
Most suitable for ages 3-8 years.
Arohas Choice
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In this story, Aroha learns that she can create pathways in her brain to lead her to different outcomes. It is all about what thoughts she chooses to focus on. The more we practise noticing our thoughts and ensuring we have plenty of good ones, the stronger these pathways will become. Pathways that we create using good thoughts will lead us to a happier and more content life.
This book is all about showing how we can affect how we feel, and ultimately the life we live, by becoming aware of our thoughts and changing them if we need to. This book I wrote for my youngest son who tends to think more pessimistically, to help him understand that our thoughts are powerful and can leave us feeling great or terrible. I wanted him to understand that HE has the power to change his thoughts. This is something I wished I learned at a much younger age.
This is a powerful and complex topic that we recommend for kids aged eight years through to teens, and perfect for a lot of us adults too.
Let It Flow
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This book will pair up perfectly with How Do I Feel? A Dictionary of Emotions.
Recipient of a 2022 Contestable Fund Grant from Copyright Licensing New Zealand.
We all experience emotions. Big ones, small ones, joyous one and uncomfortable ones. Each emotion is simply energy that travels through us. When they do, they are trying to give us a message to help us. Never feel bad about experiencing an emotion. All emotions are healthy and normal. It is what you do with the emotions that is important. You can learn more about yourself and what you need through the messages that emotions provide us.
When an emotion comes to visit us, sometimes it can feel overwhelming. Certain emotions can make us react in ways that we might regret. We might say something we don’t mean. We might lash out at someone when we don’t actually want to hurt them. Sometimes they bubble up and can feel like they are about to burst out of us. It can be hard to know what to do when we are feeling intense emotions inside. This is why it is a great idea to learn ways to release emotions safely from our bodies, so we don’t end up hurting ourselves or others.
Emotions are energy that flows into our bodies and should flow back out again. This book is all about ways to allow emotional energy to flow out in healthy and safe ways that you can try. See which ones you like best and work for you.
Paperback – full colour
Pages – 64 Size – 210mm x 265mm (Landscape)
Recommended Age – 5 years – 100 years+
Ready For School
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AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS: Hannah Davison, Flicka Williams and Marco Palmieri
A children’s book to help kids start school with confidence.
Working with a team of experts in child development, neuroscience, play therapy and psychology, My Big Moments children’s picture book, Ready for School, is designed to help children start school with confidence.
The creators behind My Big Moments weave practical language, ideas and strategies throughout the books. Their purpose is to fully engage kids in a story about their own real-life situation, while they gain valuable life skills.
Hannah Davison, Flicka Williams and Marco Palmieri wanted to make the tricky job of parenting that little bit easier. By providing credible tools, they hope to leave mums, dads, and caregivers better equipped to guide children through life’s first milestones.
Baby On The Way
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AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS: Hannah Davison, Flicka Williams and Marco Palmieri
A children’s book to help kids prepare for the arrival of a new baby.
Working with a team of experts in child development, neuroscience, play therapy and psychology, My Big Moments children’s picture book, Baby on the Way, is designed to help kids prepare to become a big sibling when the family has a new baby.
The creators behind My Big Moments weave practical language, ideas and strategies throughout the books. Their purpose is to fully engage kids in a story about their own real-life situation, while they gain valuable life skills.
Hannah Davison, Flicka Williams and Marco Palmieri wanted to make the tricky job of parenting that little bit easier. By providing credible tools, they hope to leave mums, dads, and caregivers better equipped to guide children through life’s first milestones.
Moonlight Mission
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Kunekune knows something is up, food is going missing…
Hare wants to mount a defense to protect the precious food that remains, but is that the right approach?
Sometimes the answer lies right next to the problem, and this community learns the power of coming together.
Brand new from acclaimed New Zealand author and illustrator Laura Shallcrass this beautiful childrens book shows the beauty of friendship, sharing and community.
The Monkey And The Moonbeam
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AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Jonathan Smith
NicNic is off on an adventure around the world, through lions manes, flamingo feathers, and the clutches of a cumulous cloud!
In search of something just out of reach, the star strewn night sky invites you to join him on this magical journey.
This is a book about the importance of the simple things.
DIMENSIONS: 205 mm x 280 mm
PAGES: 32
BIND: Hardback
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jonathan Smith was born in Singapore in the days when the jungle still existed and you could hear the howler monkeys call during the long hot evenings. Snakes were often found in the bathtub or wrapped around the car axle. It was therefore a bit of a climate shock to move to Wellington in his early years. Jonathan and his family travelled extensively throughout New Zealand in the family Hillman Hunter, and ended up in Auckland for his high school years. His English grandfather was a fireman and builder, and he was a part of Jonathan’s inspiration when he decided to
become an architect at the age of 9, and his studies followed this path.
From a young age Jonathan has been fascinated with storytelling in all its fantastic forms, movies, artwork, books, architecture, sculpture, and so on. In his architecture practice they always attempt to create a narrative in their projects, a thread that runs through the design. Writing this story has provided Jonathan with an amazing freedom while also securing a connection to what it once felt like to have the unconstrained mind of a child. Imagination and curiosity are superpowers that children have in abundance, holding onto these gifts can be tricky, especially in today’s world of over connectivity and busyness.
Jonathan’s son and wife have been the primary inspiration for this story. His son, Nic, was born while they were moving around a lot between Ponsonby and Waterview. From a young age Jonathan and his wife began the ritual of music and story appreciation during bath and bedtimes, this story was distilled during these moments.
My Aroha Tree Poster & Sticker Book Set
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My Aroha Tree helps children create a habit of noticing what is good in their world. This daily habit can strengthen pathways in your child’s brain that help them focus on the good in each and every day. This can help them through the difficult times when their days feel cloudy or cold.
My Aroha Tree contains a stunning A1 poster of a beautiful kōwhai tree, which includes, ‘Lessons from a Tree’ on it. The tree is a reminder that nature is a wonderful teacher. Also included is a sticker book filled with beautiful birds, insects and words to help children think about what they love, what they are grateful for and what fills them with joy. They can add a few stickers to the tree each day, which will help them to build a positive mindset. Aroha is there, under the tree, waiting to see what your child will create. Aroha is from the best-selling series of children’s books which focus on emotions and well-being.
There are 15 picture stickers on each page, as well as 10 words/notes, and there are a total of 12 pages of stickers in the book. We would hope that the daily practice could last at least a month.
Please note that the poster is folded and included in envelope with sticker book.
POSTER DIMENSIONS: A1 – 594 mm x 841 mm
STICKER BOOK DIMENSIONS: A4 – 210 mm x 297 mm
PAGES: 12 Pages – 15 Picture Stickers on each page as well as 10 words/notes
Let It Go
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Let It Go encourages children to explore what emotions feel like in their body and find a unique way to release them.
Join Aroha and her friends as they navigate their way through four emotions: sadness, anger, shame and fear. A wonderful energised story for helping kids learn to notice and discover language for experiences of emotions, so important in this day and age for helping our children, families and teachers share discussion about feelings in safe ways.
From the creators of bestselling picture book Aroha’s Way.
What Colour Is The Sky?
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Hare and Pihoihoi enjoy a beautiful dawn breaking over the meadow when Pihoihoi wonders aloud, ‘What colour is the sky?’
Hare thinks it is blue, but when they talk to Hedgehog, Snail, Mouse, Frog and Ruru, the other creatures have different ideas.
Why do the characters see things differently? What Colour is the Sky? explores the idea that all of us have different perspectives and opinions in life. This beautifully illustrated picture book for young children explores the wonder of nature and shows the importance of listening and respecting other opinions, even when we see things differently.
AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Laura Shallcrass
SIZE: 205mmx290mm, 38 pages
Thank You by Dana Winter
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Felix discovers the magic of nature in Thank You, when the moon beckons him from his bed. He dances off into the night making friends with a parade of creatures (and even the elements) who help him in their different ways, to find his own way back home.
AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Dana Winter
Dana Winter is an artist and Mother living in Oakura, New Zealand with her husband, two ebullient daughters, a dog and a fat black cat.
Her dream is that all living things on Earth are valued and cared for, regardless of their use to Humans. Her first picture book, Thank you invites readers to experience the wonder, vibrancy and generosity of our natural world.
How Do I Feel?
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With 60+ definitions to help improve emotional literacy. This HUGE hardcover book with over 140 pages, is all about our children learning to recognise and label emotions and feelings.
Join Aroha and her friends as they share how different emotions might feel in the body and how each emotion might be helpful. This emotions dictionary is all about helping children find the words for how they truly feel. Learning to recognise and label our emotions correctly is such an important skill for life.
Giving our children this language helps to build emotional literacy. It is a gift to give children the tools to know how to recognise what they truly feel and that is it okay to feel all emotions. When they know that no emotion is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and that all emotions provide messages, then it takes away any attachment to that emotion being part of who they are.
We may have experienced this ourselves being labelled ‘naughty’ or ‘out of control’ due to feeling angry a lot. However, this behaviour is just a way for a child to communicate. Diving deeper into why they are acting that way, why they may be feeling the things they are, can help us find some answers with our child. It can also help us find ways to help them empower themselves with tools to feel better.
Use this book to start conversations about different emotions. If you can, give examples of things you have experienced. When you see a child experiencing an emotion, help your child label it. “Are you feeling … right now?”
This book can be used with children from 5 years of age up to 100+ as everyone might get something from the book.
Hardcover – full colour
Pages – 152
Size – 216mm x 280mm (Landscape)
Recommended Age – 5 years – 100 years+
Aroha Knows Paperback Book
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Aroha knows that nature is there for you and for me. Spending time out in nature makes her feel all kinds of wonderful emotions. Throughout Aroha Knows, Aroha and her friends experience our amazing world and this picture book explores how it can benefit our wellbeing.
From the creators of bestselling Aroha’s Way and Let It Go, Aroha Knows encourages children to feel connected to and find meaning in nature.
Arohas Way
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Aroha’s Way is a bestselling picture book for children around uncomfortable emotions; fear, apprehension, worrying thoughts and nervousness with ways to manage them.
Kuwi & Friends Maori Picture Dictionary
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From the #1 bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of the Kuwi the Kiwi series, Kat Merewether, comes a large scale, stunningly illustrated visual dictionary. Full of over 1000 basic words in te reo Māori and English, perfect for every New Zealander.