Come along on a journey with Aroha, as she wards off nervousness, fear, worrying thoughts and apprehension, with simple, yet effective tools that everyone can use.

This beautiful picture books takes children on a journey through emotions associated with anxiety and shows simple yet effective ways to help manage them.

At the back of the book, there is a section for parents and/or teachers to explore the tools in more depth.  Asking questions around those emotions to make it easier for children to recognise the emotion, and then a simple way to manage it.

From award-winning New Zealand author and illustrator, Craig Phillips, creator of The Adventures of Jack Scratch and Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts (winner of the Russell Clark Award for Illustration at the New Zealand Book Awards 2018).

"Aroha's Way is a beautiful, descriptive and relatable book, an important book helping children to normalise, understand and even develop their own tools for dealing with their feelings." Jenny Palmer, Author of Feel a Little.

Paperback - 36 pages

Size: Landscape 210x225

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REVIEWS:

Dr Hinemoa Elder, MBChB, FRANZCP, PhD - "An exquisitely moving read.  This book will help empower our tamariki mokopuna."

Jimi Hunt - "In order to change our culture of greatly increasing mental illness, we need to tell stories ... this is one of those stories.  Beautifully told and illustrated, it is another tool in the education of our young people in how to deal with emotions and increase their mental fitness."

Dr Suzanne Henwood, Braining4Success - "This is a beautifully illustrated and cleverly written book to help children find a way back to calm."