Books by Liz Bates

This charming storybook introduces Myg the Amygdala within the context of `my brilliant brain¿ ¿ giving children usable knowledge to help them understand what happens when they feel worried or anxious.

Designed for use alongside the storybook Myg and Me: Understanding Anxiety and Implementing Self-Calming, Teachers, support staff, therapists and parents will find this guidebook an indispensable tool in the process of helping children they interact with to feel a sense of self-determination and self-efficacy.

This set containing an adult resource guide and storybook encourages children to explore and interrogate their thoughts and feelings in an accessible and fun way while providing trusted adults with clear, straightforward explanations of why this understanding is important and tools that can be used in a learning setting.

Written as the adult accompaniment to the Ruby, Rafa and Riz storybook, this resource explores behaviour with strategies for supporting children who struggle to manage their responses and behaviours; and the role of the adult in recognising signs, de-escalation, connection and reflection.

This storybook tells the story of Ruby, Rafa and Riz as each child has an experience that affects them. Their teacher notices the behaviour of each child which leads to him asking how they are feeling and what they are thinking, enabling each child to talk about their emotions and so helping the adult to understand their behaviour.

The sessions and activities in this book directly correlate to the storybook Something Has Happened, covering the fundamental aspects of safeguarding as well as the Protective Behaviours (PB) process. It acts as a starting point to help children understand that being safe from harm is the most important right they have.

This storybook has been created to enable conversations around safeguarding, teaching children about their right to feel safe. Designed to be used alongside the professional guidebook, A Practical Resource for Supporting Children¿s Right to Feel Safe, this is an essential tool for teachers, support staff and other professionals

This illustrated storybook introduces Coco, Otto, Ollie and Ling as they negotiate the sometimes tricky world of friendships and relationships, observing the unkindness of some and using their superpower - kindness, to change the lives of others.