Books in the Helping Children with Feelings series

This sensitively written and beautifully illustrated story offers a wealth of opportunities to begin a conversation about the difficult emotions that can follow a loss, helping children to acknowledge and express their emotions. It is an essential resource for anybody supporting children aged 4-12 who have experienced grief.

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.

Willy is an anxious boy who experiences the world as a very unsafe, wobbly place where anything awful might happen at any time. Joe, the boy next door, is too ordered and tidy to be able to ever really enjoy life.