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  • Ruby Finds a Worry

    Tom Percival

    Hardcover (Bloomsbury Children's Books, Sept. 3, 2019)
    From the creator of Perfectly Norman comes a sensitive and reassuring story about what to do when a worry won't leave you alone.Meet Ruby--a happy, curious, imaginative girl. But one day, she finds something unexpected: a Worry. It's not such a big Worry, at first. But every day, it grows a little bigger . . . And a little bigger . . . Until eventually, the Worry is ENORMOUS and is all she can think about. But when Ruby befriends a young boy, she discovers that everyone has worries, and not only that, there's a great way to get rid of them too . . . This perceptive and poignant story is the perfect springboard for talking to children about emotional intelligence and sharing hidden anxieties.The Big Bright Feelings picture books provide kid-friendly entry points into emotional intelligence topics--from being true to yourself, to worrying, to anger management, to making friends. These topics can be difficult to talk about. But these books act as sensitive and reassuring springboards for conversations about mental and emotional health, positive self-image, building self-confidence, and managing feelings.Read all the books in the Big Bright Feelings series!Perfectly NormanRuby Finds a WorryRavi's Roar
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  • Ravi's Roar

    Tom Percival

    Hardcover (Bloomsbury Children's Books, Feb. 4, 2020)
    From the creator of Perfectly Norman and Ruby Finds a Worry comes a clever and engaging book about temper tantrums.Ravi never minded being the smallest in his family. Until one day, his short arms can't reach the monkey bars, he can't find anyone during hide-and-seek, AND he's too little to ride the big slide. Ravi is so mad--so furious--that he can't control his temper anymore . . . . . . and he becomes a ferocious, roaring TIGER! Being a tiger is great. Tigers can do anything they want! But who wants to play with a growling, wild tiger who won't share or behave? Ravi is about to discover something very important about voicing his feelings.The Big Bright Feelings picture books provide kid-friendly entry points into emotional intelligence topics--from being true to yourself, to worrying, to anger management, to making friends. These topics can be difficult to talk about. But these books act as sensitive and reassuring springboards for conversations about mental and emotional health, positive self-image, building self-confidence, and managing feelings.Read all the books in the Big Bright Feelings series!Perfectly NormanRuby Finds a WorryRavi's Roar
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  • Perfectly Norman

    Tom Percival

    Hardcover (Bloomsbury Children's Books, May 1, 2018)
    This empowering title in the Big Bright Feelings series is about embracing and celebrating what makes you unique.Norman had always been perfectly normal . . . until one day, he grows a pair of wings! Afraid of what people will think, Norman covers them up with a big coat. Can Norman find the courage to be himself?While we all might feel afraid about standing out, Perfectly Norman shows that there's nothing better than being yourself!The Big Bright Feelings picture books provide kid-friendly entry points into emotional intelligence topics--from being true to yourself, to worrying, to anger management, to making friends. These topics can be difficult to talk about. But these books act as sensitive and reassuring springboards for conversations about mental and emotional health, positive self-image, building self-confidence, and managing feelings.Read all the books in the Big Bright Feelings series!Perfectly NormanRuby Finds a WorryRavi's RoarMeesha Makes Friends
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  • The Magic Looking Glass

    Tom Percival

    Paperback (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, Sept. 5, 2017)
    Meet Jack and his talking chicken Betsy, Red, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and a host of other Little Legends as they have fantastic new adventures! Get to know your favorite fairytale characters like never before in this magical new book series.A cutting has been stolen from the magical Story Tree, and it's up to twins Hansel and Gretel to get it back. With the help of their new friend Wolfie, they find a secret fortress in the forest and a Magic Looking Glass that promises to help them. But things are not always what they seem! Can Wolfie and the twins save the day, or will the Magic Look Glass have the last laugh?Other books in the Little Legends series:The Spell ThiefThe Great Troll RescueThe Genie's Curse
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  • The Great Troll Rescue

    Tom Percival

    Paperback (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, March 7, 2017)
    Meet Jack and his talking chicken Betsy, Red, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and a host of other Little Legends as they have fantastic new adventures! Get to know your favorite fairytale characters like never before in this magical new book series. What starts as an adventure ends in disaster when Jack and all his friends are captured by a wicked witch with a devious plan. It's up to Red, the woodcutter's daughter, to save the day. Along the way Red befriends the wicked witch's servants, Ella and her Fairy Godbrother Cole. Can they rescue Red's friends and all the other magical creatures the witch has kidnapped – including a fearsome troll?
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  • The Spell Thief

    Tom Percival

    Paperback (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, Dec. 6, 2016)
    Meet Jack and his talking chicken Betsy, Red, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and a host of other Little Legends as they have fantastic new adventures! Get to know your favorite fairytale characters like never before in this magical new book series.Life for Jack is great ― he's got a magical talking hen named Betsy, he lives in a town where stories literally grow on trees, and all his best friends live there with him. That is, until Anansi, the new kid in town, arrives... When Jack sees Anansi having a secret meeting with a troll ― everything changes. Trolls mean trouble and Jack will stop at nothing to prove that Tale Town is in danger. Even if that means using stolen magic!
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  • The Story Tree

    Tom Percival

    Paperback (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, April 3, 2018)
    It's time to save Tale Town!Tale Town is on lockdown as Mayor Fitch prepares for an attack from the trolls. Desperate to gain the trolls' magical power, he is encouraging a war and gambling his town's safety on his quest for magical power.But when the children of Tale Town learn from their troll friend what's really going on, they know it's up to them to save their troll friend from danger and convince the people of Tale Town of Fitch's evil plan. The feat seems impossible-until a leaf from the story tree changes everything...The Little Legends Series:The Spell Thief (Book 1)The Great Troll Rescue (Book 2)The Genie's Curse (Book 3)The Magic Looking Glass (Book 4)The Secret Mountain (Book 5)The Story Tree (Book 6)
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  • The Genie's Curse

    Tom Percival

    Paperback (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, May 2, 2017)
    Meet Jack and his talking chicken Betsy, Red, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and a host of other Little Legends as they have fantastic new adventures! Get to know your favorite fairytale characters like never before in this magical new book series.For Rapunzel, being a princess has been nothing but fun. But everything goes wrong when she breaks a magical urn and blames it on her new friend, Ella. It turns out that the urn was home to a very cross (and now very homeless) genie, who casts a spell making everyone blame Rapunzel for everything that goes wrong in Tale Town!With the help of her friends and a mysterious green monkey called Alphege, can Rapunzel lift the curse and make things right?
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  • Ruby Finds A Worry

    Tom Percival

    Paperback (scholastic, Aug. 16, 2020)
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  • The Secret Mountain

    Tom Percival

    Paperback (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, April 3, 2018)
    Meet Jack and his talking chicken Betsy, Red, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and a host of other Little Legends as they have fantastic new adventures! Get to know your favorite fairytale characters like never before in this magical new book seriesEveryone in Tale Town knows that trolls mean trouble, and the Mayor and his guards have captured a fearsome troll spy. But when Jack, Red and Anansi see the prisoner, they find out the so-called spy is just a lost troll child...With the help of all their friends, the Little Legends decide to rescue the young troll and take it back to its secret mountain home. But what they find out when they get to Troll Mountain changes everything they've ever known!The Little Legends Series:The Spell Thief (Book 1)The Great Troll Rescue (Book 2)The Genie's Curse (Book 3)The Magic Looking Glass (Book 4)The Secret Mountain (Book 5)The Story Tree (Book 6)
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  • Ruby Finds a Worry

    Tom Percival

    eBook (Bloomsbury Children's Books, Sept. 3, 2019)
    From the creator of Perfectly Norman comes a sensitive and reassuring story about what to do when a worry won't leave you alone.Meet Ruby--a happy, curious, imaginative girl. But one day, she finds something unexpected: a Worry. It's not such a big Worry, at first. But every day, it grows a little bigger . . . And a little bigger . . . Until eventually, the Worry is ENORMOUS and is all she can think about. But when Ruby befriends a young boy, she discovers that everyone has worries, and not only that, there's a great way to get rid of them too . . . This perceptive and poignant story is the perfect springboard for talking to children about emotional intelligence and sharing hidden anxieties.The Big Bright Feelings picture books provide kid-friendly entry points into emotional intelligence topics--from being true to yourself, to worrying, to anger management, to making friends. These topics can be difficult to talk about. But these books act as sensitive and reassuring springboards for conversations about mental and emotional health, positive self-image, building self-confidence, and managing feelings.Read all the books in the Big Bright Feelings series!Perfectly NormanRuby Finds a WorryRavi's Roar
  • Bubble Trouble

    Tom Percival

    Hardcover (Bloomsbury USA Childrens, June 2, 2015)
    Best friends Rueben and Felix love blowing bubbles, and the bigger, the better. But after Rueben challenges Felix to a contest, the two go head-to-head and bubble-to-bubble . . . with disastrous results. Can they keep their friendship from going POP?Find out in this delightfully bubbly story of friendship, fighting, and making up.
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