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The Healthy Coping Colouring Book and Journal: Creative Activities to Help Manage Stress, Anxiety and Other Big Feelings ISBN: 9781785921391
Hamilton, Emily and Knightsmith, Pooky
Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016
This is a beautiful book, full of reassurance, poems, aphorisms, suggestions of things to do when feeling low, and lots and lots of pictures to colour and pages and pages of journal. It will be the ideal present for a child with low self-esteem or one who worries excessively. Combining the recent interest in 'adult' colouring books and the need to write down one's feelings, it could well provide a lifeline to a child or teenager with real angst. A nicely produced, fat paperback, the creative ideas in this book show us ways to contain our worries; the book will also give hours of solitary pleasure in being able to create beauty and meaning in the process of drawing and writing about our own emotions. Boys may well enjoy the book too and get much from it, but I suspect this is mainly one for the girls. Available from Amazon, from good book shops, and from the publisher: www.jkp.com.
Age: 9+