Promoting Young Children's Emotional Health and Wellbeing

Promoting Young Children's Emotional Health and Wellbeing

Author: Sonia Mainstone-Cotton

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2017-03-21

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1784503118

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Positive emotional health in a child's earliest years can be a critical factor in their future development. Offering practical suggestions for games, activities and exercises designed to promote emotional wellbeing in young children, this essential guide showcases a wide range of approaches such as mindfulness and meditation, Forest School and Reggio Emilia to provide a hands-on reference for teachers and parents. Drawing on over 25 years' experience as an early years professional, the author explores topics including playfulness, stillness, sensory play, creativity and staff wellbeing. Each topic references current best practices and international examples, and also includes a comprehensive list of further resources and activities. Providing an informative introduction to both theory and practice, this book demonstrates easy-to-implement ideas for any professional or parent engaging with young children.


Ghost Boy

Ghost Boy

Author: Stafford Betty

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2018-08-31

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1785357999

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Seventh grader Ben Conover sees people no one else can see. When he confides in his best friend, it's not long before smart phones start lighting up with text messages as the air cackles with gossip and he becomes known in school as the 'Ghost Boy'. Home has become a battle ground between his Mum's acceptance and his Dad's disapproval. Ben desperately seeks his father's approval, and wants to be like a regular twelve-year-old. But he doesn't want to break free from his spirit friend, Abby, who shows up when he is in danger or about to do something wrong. She somehow guides him and he has grown very fond of her. Will Ben's father accept his son's psychic gifts? Can he persuade his father that spirits are real and not just hallucinations? And who exactly is Abby? A Middle Grade story about a boy who sees spirits.


Grimworld

Grimworld

Author: Avery Moray

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2019-10-25

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1789041589

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Every day, thirteen year old Henry Bats has his usual bowl of Sugar Slugs, helps tend Cobalt Sidewinders at Frank’s Peculiar Pets, and keeps to himself with his comic book collection. Just your typical day in Grimworld, where the sky is always dark and shadows lurk in the streets. What’s not typical is a suspicious Nightspook luring Henry into a cemetery in the middle of the night with the promise of a prized comic book. The Nightspook steals part of Henry's lifespan with a pocket watch, which begins counting down to his death. Henry is running out of time, and the pocket watch won't stop ticking...


Jake's Book

Jake's Book

Author: Michael Strelow

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2019-11-29

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 178904233X

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Jake's sisters have been important to the health and welfare of the kingdom. Jake has been on the outside looking in on their adventures in The Princess Gardener, and The Alyssa Chronicle. But now it's his turn. He's been watching from high in the trees, and now with a little help from some magical old friends, Jake finds transformation and the natural world as easy as the quick shake of a squirrel's tail. Jake's Book is volume III of The Princess Gardener series.


Emajen

Emajen

Author: Ashley Ledigo

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2018-03-30

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1785356828

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Emajen is a world, similar to Earth. Doodland is a world where all the sketches that human beings doodle spring to life. Crevitos is a cruel and beautiful Creation, with multi-world domination and devastation in mind. Two youngsters from Earth, Destiny and Anthony, become embroiled in a complex expedition to save Emajen from Crevitos’ tyranny and his growing army of almost invincible Creations.


Fortis Mission

Fortis Mission

Author: S. Y. Palmer

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2019-09-27

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1789040922

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Fifteen-year-old Michael May makes history as the first child in space and part of a crew to the far side of the moon. However, from the moment he docks at the International Space Station, things change... Theft, sabotage, and a shocking discovery threaten Michael May's mission to the moon and force him to act. If he can’t find the answers, the mission will fail. May's Moon: Fortis Mission is the second instalment in the May's Moon trilogy.


Treasures of Egypt

Treasures of Egypt

Author: Amr Saleh

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2024-10-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1803416114

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'A unique mythic adventure full of thrilling twists and heart-warming romance!' Cassandra Rose Clarke, author of Magic of Blood and Sea What would one do for love? What would one do for Egypt? Desperation drives Nefiri Minu, apprentice to the Grand Vizier, to save her little brother by seeking Khafset, a young thief from the persecuted people of Hyksos. But his price to help heal her sick brother is to steal a divine spear from Ra's temple. However, by touching the spear, Nefiri unwittingly unleashes Set, the shackled God of Destruction, and starts a chain of events that threatens to plunge Egypt into chaos. To avert disaster, they are forced to navigate the realm of the gods and the dead, and face off against mythological creatures in a dangerous adventure Khafset insists on calling “The Grand Heist.” Can this unlikely pair learn to trust each other? Will that trust turn their forced partnership into something more? On an adventure packed with secrets, hidden agendas, not to mention Gods and monsters, will Nefiri and Khafset succeed in their mission to save Egypt or will the very prejudices that have shaped their world threaten to tear them apart?


Relax Kids

Relax Kids

Author: Marneta Viegas

Publisher: Our Street Books

Published: 2003-12-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781903816660

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Using well-known fairy tales, this text is a gentle and fun way of introducing children to the world of meditation and relaxation. It is designed to counteract some of the tensions with which we are all familiar and offers parents and children quality time to relax and share together.


Relax Kids

Relax Kids

Author: Marneta Viegas

Publisher: Our Street Books

Published: 2014-11-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781782794608

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