AUTHOR Of THE SCHOOL OF VILLAMOR VAN VAUGHAN FIRST PUBLISHED JANUARY 2025
Helping Children age 6 to 11 to understand and explore the big feelings of anger through rhyme
LOVE IS THE GIFT FIRST PUBLISHED MARCH 2022
Supporting children age 6 to 11 through grief and bereavement
As adults we can help children to understand emotions such as anger and support them in exploring ways to manage it. We create a safe place to talk and discover what is going on, without judgement and maintaining our own calm in the process.
Anger is a very normal and healthy emotion and is usually a response to something that is making us feel unhappy or sad. There are many different reasons why anger can manifest – being treated unjustly, being frightened, not being able to have a voice, or even struggling to understand the world around us.
Here at ‘The School of Villamor Van Vaughan’, you can explore how anger develops for some of the students at the school.
Written in rhyme, the book is a fun way to interact with your child and can help open up discussions about how they relate to the different anger scenarios in the story.
Aimed at children aged 6 to 10
Reviews
The School of Villamor Van Vaughan. Helping Children to Explore Anger Through Rhyme is a delightful, insightful picture book that tackles the big feeling of anger in a gentle, rhyming format that children can understand and relate to. Through engaging and rhythmic verse, the book guides readers through a child’s journey of feeling—and managing—anger.
This book shines as a tool for parents and teachers to help children recognise that anger is natural but manageable. Its soothing rhythm makes the process of calming down feel almost musical, creating a comforting experience. The book includes helpful tips, offering practical techniques to guide children through their emotions.
The School of Villamor Van Vaughan is perfect for bedtime, class story time, or any moment when children need a reminder on how to handle big feelings. This book is a must-have for any child’s library, blending empathy and education with warmth and understanding.
Sue Atkins Parenting Broadcaster, Speaker and Author of ‘The Can-Do Kid’s Journal: Discover your Confidence Superpower. www.thesueatkins.com
Books are a wonderful way to start a conversation about death and offers a platform to talk about feelings.
LOVE IS THE GIFT is a poetical story with beautiful soothing illustrations about a mermaid who is confronted by her grief as she finds out that her grandmother is coming to the end of her life.
Every page of this book gives the reader the opportunity to open dialogue with children and explore thoughts and feelings around death, grief, love, and positive memories.
Death is an inevitable part of life and creating space to talk about death with children, even when there has not been a bereavement is healthy and can help them to manage difficult feelings in the future.
Dealing with the death of a loved one can be difficult and painful for both adults and children and children rely on the support of the adults around them to help them deal with the loss.
Grief is a perfectly normal experience, and it can present itself in many different ways, confusion, numbness, anger, guilt, sadness, anxiety, disbelief, and loneliness are just a few ways in which it can manifest.
By creating a safe, age-appropriate space for children to talk openly and ask questions, you can support them in working through their worries and assist them in their healing.
Reviews
No one is immune to experiencing loss at some point in life, and for many, our first experience with loss is that of a beloved grandparent. As a parent, you are suddenly thrown into a unique and complex role of grieving your own loss, along with helping your child cope with this new emotional experience.
Love is a Gift is a beautiful way to open those conversations around the difficult process of grieving the loss of someone we love. With magical and soothing art, coupled with very real conversations around the subject, it will be a gift to the well-being of any child who will inevitably experience loss at some point in their lives.
Sandy Peckinpah, author of How to Survive the Worst that can Happen and Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®