Shame doesn't make us less, just human.This is a book about shame. Yep, that messy thing we all carry but we all like to hide. But shame is such an important topic to talk about, especially with kids. Because guess what? They feel it all the time. And they just don't know how to talk about it. Because even grownups don't know how to talk about it. Shame doesn't make us anything less than enough. It just makes us human.
Help kids understand the power and impact of good design.This is a book about design and exists to unlock the design potential within every kid. Designers work in different ways, but all of them use creativity and compassion to solve problems and make things that in turn make the world a better place. Through the author's personal experience and multi-step process, empower the kid in your life to share their ideas, make, create, and be the best designer they can be.
Better understand the complexities and uniqueness of adoption.This book opens the door for anyone to start a conversation about adoption, told through the eyes of a kid who has been adopted as well as a grownup who's adopted a kid. It breaks down some of the complexities of adoption and dives into what makes each story so unique and special.
Take your first step toward activism!A little book with a big goal! This book aims to give kids the building blocks to develop strong principles of care, empathy, and community. Because you're never too young to make a difference!
Start this big conversation with openness and honesty.When divorce happens, it happens to everyone in the family and kids are left with a lot of questions. This is a tough conversation to have, and some of the answers can hurt. This book is meant to help start an honest discussion with kids about what to expect when parents go their separate ways—written by a parent who has been there.
Tools for practicing optimism every day!Do you want to be happy? Doesn't everyone? Happiness often comes from a personal shift in perspective, which sounds simple, but can be a real challenge and definitely takes practice! This book is a fun exploration of how to engage an optimistic and empowering mindset and how to make choices that lead to more opportunities, positivity, and joy.
Emotions can be hard, expressing them can be even harder, but it's so important.Emotions? emotions... EMOOOOTIONS!We all have them, they're all different, and they're rarely simple. This book helps kids explore the complexities of their emotions with stories, questions, and coloring activities made for self-expression. What color do you feel like today?
A personal story of depression and how the author found help.This is a book about depression. It doesn't shy away from the complexities of depression or what getting help might look like. It gives an honest perspective into what depression feels like, what life looks like with it, and the hope that comes with being known and being loved through it.
The importance of nervous system regulation and how it helps to make us feel safe and connected—with each other and within ourselves.The nervous system guides so much of what we do, from breathing, to feeling, thinking, and living! But, our nervous systems can get dysregulated, which makes us feel disconnected or overwhelmed. This book helps us understand different stress responses and practice techniques to calm and regulate our nervous systems—all parts of being human!
Help kids understand the complexities of systemic racism.Systemic racism is incredibly difficult to understand—even for grownups! This book was made to help kids understand what systemic racism is and how it's built into laws, schools, stories, and other institutions in a way that collectively makes life much harder for people of color.
Help your kid understand what anger means and how to deal with it in healthy and positive ways.Anger is a part of life—but we never really talk about it other than to say don't be angry. This is why, too often, kids don't fully understand what they're feeling or what to do about it. That's why this book is here! To help kids understand what it means to feel angry and how to manage and process their anger in healthy and helpful ways that might even inspire positive change.
Start the conversation early about one of the most important topics: love.We know a few things about love we'd like to share! Love is all around us, each and every day. And love is so big that it never, ever runs out.
Explore everything home can be.Home can be a place, a feeling, a person, wherever you feel safe and strong. And the coolest part is where our home is and who makes us feel at home only grows as we do!
From famous Gods to the inside of temples, this title lets your child get all the homework help they need, and learn all about Ancient Greece.
What would Stitch do? Loyal friend, mischievous comedian, and extraterrestrial adventurer: Stitch navigates life with all its ups and down. Sometimes Stitch accidentally causes chaos, but he knows his 'ohana will always be there for him and a bit of surfing can cheer him up.With bitesize advice, personality quizzes, quotes, and fun images, Be More Stitch encourages children to feel confidence and positivity. Learn how to understand your emotions, overcome obstacles, and improve self-esteem. Let everyone's favourite super-cute Disney alien show you how to feel happier every day! The perfect gift for young Lilo & Stitch fans.(c)Disney
An updated edition of the best-selling DIY manual you can't afford to be without, with expert know-how for success every time. Whether you need to do a quick fix or a large DIY project, find out how to tackle any DIY task with confidence following this revised and updated step-by-step guide. From fitting a shower cubicle to applying different painting techniques, the simple, clear, unintimidating instructions ensure even hard jobs are made easy, whatever your level of ability. With step-by-step photographs of every technique and process, DIY breaks down every stage of every task, from choosing tools and essential safety guidance to advice for tackling big jobs and fixing common problems. Including the latest home features like boiling-water taps and smart security systems, up-to-date safety guidelines, and eco-conscious solutions from paint choices to solar panels, this is the tried-and-trusted guide that no homeowner should be without.
Get tastier produce from your garden with this fresh approach to growing veg, fruit and ornamental plants. Home-grown food is now a reality for many, eco-conscious gardeners everywhere should be keen to explore methods that increase yield and harvest edible crops with a depth of flavour rarely matched on supermarket shelves. Biodynamic gardening techniques promise both.This incredibly accessible guide comes with fully illustrated step-by-step instructions on biodynamic techniques for home gardeners. Crystal clear practical advice tells you what to do when, from soil preparation and planting to harvesting at optimum times for the best flavour.Even busy gardeners can incorporate biodynamic practices, so for a pragmatic guide to an all-natural, ethical approach that delivers great results, look no further.
Everything you need to know to sew your own clothes and home furnishings.Demystify your sewing machine and get to grips with essential techniques with The Sewing Book. This bestselling guide covers over 300 techniques with illustrated step-by-step sequences, showing you how to create everything from seams and hems to darts, gathers, and collars.Discover how to read a pattern and adapt designs to suit your measurements, get to grips with tools and materials, and find the best fabrics to suit whatever you want to make.Complete with ten homeware and clothing projects to help you put your new-found skills to the test, The Sewing Book shows you everything you need to know, stitch by stitch.
Harvest year-round from your bountiful and sustainable kitchen garden. Huw Richards' ultimate guide to permaculture gardening, outlining the regenerative methods that make kitchen gardening easier to do while being more productive. Huw shows you how to expand your growing beyond annual staples like tomatoes and cabbages to perennial fruits and vegetables. By mixing your planting, gardening seasonally, and optimizing your garden design, you will create a more beautiful and sustainable kitchen garden that is better for the soil, wildlife, and your crops - without costing more of your time. The book includes:What to grow: a substantial and comprehensive reference of edible plants and flowers you can grow - when to sow, grow on, and harvestIncludes perennials that crop every year, maximizing yield for effortA permaculture approach: streamline the way your garden operates with ideas on building resilience, using vertical space, generating healthy soil, and mixed "polyculture" plantingAesthetics and environment: how to make your kitchen garden look good by planting ornamental edibles and flowering crops that attract pollinatorsA roadmap for the year ahead guides you through the key moments throughout the four seasons
Teach your little one about how we build and grow trust.For such a little word, trust means something pretty big! Trust is feeling safe, protected, and strong. And it's something we can share and grow every day through what we do and say.
Are you ready to have your mind blown? Wow all your friends and family with 5 jaw-dropping facts about science each day, then turbo-charge your memory with 5 questions about your new-found knowledge. Did you know that you can't burp in space? Or that bananas are slightly radioactive? Or that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in our solar system? Discover the science behind all these facts and much more with 5 Facts a Day: Science. From rocks to robots, and cells to solar systems, this eye-opening book covers more than 250 different science topics in an easy-to-read, entertaining, and bite-sized way to build on your knowledge as you go. Discover 5 facts a day, 5 days a week, or just dip in and out for fun.
This revised and updated guide to the US Civil War offers an intimate account of America's bloodiest and most divisive conflict - 160 years on. This comprehensive, visually arresting guide explores the history, causes, and consequences of the US Civil War with eyewitness accounts by soldiers and civilians, key profiles of military leaders, and clear timelines that give an overview of how the events developed. Fully revised and updated, and produced in association with the Smithsonian Institute, The American Civil War is packed with information on key locations, the treatment of wounded soldiers, and slavery, and provides a rich and detailed account of one of the most controversial conflicts ever fought. Illustrated throughout with photography and paintings, it features detailed galleries showcasing weapons, equipment, and other artefacts, and also comes with informative and photographic features on memorial sites associated with the Civil War.
Discover the story of the world's most important cities - from Mesopotamia to today's global metropolises. Which ancient civilization founded the precursor to Mexico City? Why was Venice the gateway to the East? What was the Belle Epoque? And which was the first city with a sewer system? Cities That Changed History takes you there, and tells you all this and more. Written in the form of illustrated "biographies", the book offers readers a celebration of cities ancient and modern - from Persepolis and Tikal, Paris and Vienna to Prague, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Dubai - providing a rich overview of each city, and bringing them to life with paintings, photographs, timelines, maps, and artefacts. Stunning images of city life and key moments in history are complemented by close-ups of revealing details and feature panels that provide additional context. A book not just about history but also about art, architecture, commerce, and politics, Cities That Changed History provides a fascinating insight into what has shaped the hubs of human society down the centuries and across the world.
Neurodiversity makes our world beautiful and is worthy of celebrating!Everything we do is because of the ways our brains work, and everyone's brain is different. Seriously! But our world doesn't operate in a way that is accepting of each brain type. Neurodiversity is what makes our world beautiful, and this author teaches us the importance of celebrating the unique ways in which our brains help us learn, feel, and experience life!Meet A Kids Co., a new kind of media company with a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging, empowering, and important conversations for kids and their grownups.
The perfect pocket guide to bird-watching for beginnersRSPB What's That Bird? is ideal if you struggle to tell a swift from a swallow. It's the perfect pocket guide for beginners but also a handy reference for the more seasoned bird-watcher.Featuring over 150 common European birds, habitat overviews show you what to look for where and commonly confused birds are shown side by side for quick comparison and identification. Become a successful bird-watcher in no time with RSPB What's The Bird?
Discover how to build everything with LEGO® bricks!Be inspired by 150 awesome LEGO ideas, from cars and houses, to dinosaurs and robots and more.Embark on an imaginative building journey as the models get more challenging through the book.Each idea is shown broken down into three, four, or five important building steps.Learn essential building techniques to create scenes for your models at the end of each chapterYou can build anything!(c)2024 The LEGO Group.
Join Tweedy the Clown in his adventures at the circus, as he searches for his missing red nose.The circus is sold out, the big top is packed, the ringmaster is about to introduce the first act but... oh no! Tweedy the Clown has lost his red nose. He is absolutely sure nobody will laugh if he's not wearing it, so he sets out to find his missing nose - wherever can it be?Join Tweedy the Clown in this laugh-out-loud adventure, as he chases after his elusive nose and in doing so, causes chaos for the other performers trying to present their fantastic acts. And see if you can spot the culprit... A little intruder who has come into the circus and, in an interactive element, can be spotted in the background playing with the nose and enjoying Tweedy's misadventures.Illustrated throughout by Daniel Duncan, this hilarious picture book weaves the magic of the circus into every page, while its simple message reminds everyone that the best thing you can be is yourself.
From kimchi to miso, kombucha to ginger beer, The Fermenter's Companion introduces you to the alchemy of fermentation - taking simple ingredients and transforming them in form and flavour.Explore a wide range of authentic and adapted techniques from across cultures and continents and harness bacteria, yeast, and fungus to create a variety of ferments to add flavour to dishes, boost gut health, and give perishable produce a new lease of life.Reconnect with these natural processes and learn to incorporate ferments into your everyday cooking with guides to flavour, texture and aroma alongside recipe ideas serving as inspiration.
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