Books with author Miss Naomi Moore

A therapeutic story for younger children dealing with the subject of death and grief of somebody close to them.Tim has a very special person in his life. They do loads of things together. Then one day his special person isn't there anymore and suddenly Tim's whole world feels like there is nothing special in it any more. He doesn't understand.Where have they gone?To a place called Dead, which Tim learns means that they are not coming back.But Tim and his mum think of a way to remember his very special person and all the special things about them that they did together.

Have you ever felt alone? Everybody feels alone sometimes. You can feel alone anywhere. It doesn't matter whether you are in a crowd, surrounded by family or you really are on your own. Alone can be a feeling we carry inside of us that has nothing to do with who is around us. Feeling all alone inside is a very difficult place to be. Alone is a therapeutic story written for children, young people or adults, who might be able to identify with feeling deeply lost and alone and how that feeling can become entrenched in their very being. Feeling alone can become a vicious cycle that becomes harder to break the longer people remain stuck in it. Breaking the cycle needs real, meaningful connections from others.Sometimes stories can be a way in.

Anybody can fall into and get stuck in a hole!A therapeutic story for older children, young people and adults who might have experienced or be experiencing the feelings of sadness and despair told through the metaphor of falling into a hole.Ollie doesn't know why he starts feeling sad one day. He just does. At the same time he notices a crack in his house and a small hole in the ground. They get bigger until one day the house crumbles and the hole swallows both the house and Ollie. it is so deep he cannot climb out by himself.Trapped in the dark Ollie's sadness turns to despair and he finds he cannot imagine or try ever getting out of the hole. That is what happens when the darkness gets inside you.Until one day a little bird flies down into the hole.

What happens to the brothers and sisters when another child becomes very ill?In such difficult circumstances, the voices of the children who are not ill or deemed to be in need of the same time and attention, can get inadvertently lost.This is a story for them.Petal and Blossom are two flowers who grow in the same pot together. TThen one day Blossom starts to wilt and wither, despite nothing changing.What is happening to her?No one understands or has any answers!They try lots of things but nothing seems to work.Then one day Petal finds herself uprooted and taken somewhere else.She doesn't know what is happening to Blossom.She doesn't like being on her own in this strange place.She doesn't like feeling lost, ignored and forgotten.Until one day a little girl notices her.Petal and Kiva have something in common.They both have sisters who became very ill.Kiva doesn't know what to make of it all either so she hides all her thoughts and feelings that worry and frighten her in a forbidden place inside her and tries very hard not to think about it, until her auntie helps her make sense of all the thoughts and feelings she has and draw them out into the open.

Tayo lives in a house with a storm.Sometimes it isn't stormy but that doesn't stop Tayo watching and waiting for the dark clouds to start to gather. It can all change in a second, like a flash of lightening.He never knows when that moment will be.So he tries to control it. He tries everything he can think of to stop the storm from blowing up but it doesn't work.The storm gets into his head and stops him from concentrating at school, because he can't stop thinking and worrying about it.Tayo feels completely alone with this terrible secret and labelled as a child who is no good, until one day somebody comes along who sees him clearly.Too many children live with the shadow and trauma of domestic violence, that blights their lives and affects their futures.This is an extremely complex issue that doesn't always have a clear cut resolution and children continue to suffer, despite the best efforts of people to help. If they even know it is happening?The Storm in the House highlights how, even with a lack of clear resolution, an attuned, emotionally available adult looking out for that child, can be internalised as a warm presence in their inner world and build their resilience against adversity.

In the depths of the darkest ocean lives an ancient night sea whale, whose job it is to look after children at night when they sail to the land of dreams. They might not even know he is there but he keeps those little boats on course. Sometimes it is all too easy to lose our night sea whale and the little boats can be hijacked by the deep sea monsters, who threaten to drag them to the depths of the ocean.The Night Sea Whale is a whales tale of connecting with our inner wisdom to help us find our way through the unimaginable to be able to get back home.

Lucky is the best dog in the whole world, according to Ducky.Lucky and Ducky have always been together. Ducky can't remember a time without Lucky in his life.Only he starts noticing that Lucky is getting older, slower and greyer. He can't run as fast or for as long.Ducky starts to realise that dogs age faster than humans and also that there will one day come a time, when Lucky gets too old, grey and slow and will die.Somehow, even though he doesn't want to think about it, he has to find a way to say goodbye to his furry friend.A therapeutic story about the death of a beloved family pet, often the first time children will encounter death and grief.