Here are some of Minipreneur’s favourite children’s books by Molly Potter & Sarah Jennings that have been published by Bloomsbury Education. Molly Potter is a well-known and respected PHSE expert, and author of the bestselling picture book series Let’s Talk with books that help you start meaningful conversations with your child. Covering topics like feelings, relationships, diversity and mental health, these comforting picture books support healthy discussions with your children right from the start.
How Are You Feeling Today? by Molly Potter & Sarah Jennings
This delightful book gives children the tools they need to deal with lots of different feelings – without it all ending in tears! It explores 12 common emotions, including happy, angry, excited, bored and embarrassed, and offers ideas for what children could do when they feel this way. This edition has also been fully updated with the latest guidance on developing children’s emotional intelligence.
This is a great dip-in book where children can choose a feeling that relates to them and then turn to the page that provides child-friendly strategies for dealing with that feeling. Early Years and PSHE expert Molly Potter also provides notes at the back of the book for parents and carers explaining emotional literacy, and a Feelings Tracker for children to map out their emotions.
Let’s Talk books help you start meaningful conversations with your child. Written by an expert and covering topics like feelings, relationships, diversity and mental health, these comforting picture books support healthy discussion right from the start.
£6.99 published by Bloomsbury Education
How Are You Feeling Now? by Molly Potter & Sarah Jennings
Feelings visit us all the time. They are a normal part of being human! This is the perfect picture book to help children understand and manage their feelings early on. Offering child-friendly strategies for dealing with feelings, this book looks at 12 complex emotions and makes them simple for children.
From feeling proud, brave and grateful to frustrated, anxious and lonely, it shows children just what to do when they’re faced with these everyday emotions. It’s full of beautiful illustrations by Sarah Jennings and child-friendly, humorous language to delight readers.
Notes at the back of the book explain emotional intelligence to parents, carers and practitioners and provide more ideas and strategies to use with children.
Let’s Talk books help you start meaningful conversations with your child. Written by an expert and covering topics like feelings, relationships, diversity and mental health, these comforting picture books support healthy discussion right from the start.
£12.99 published by Bloomsbury Education
The Same but Different by Molly Potter & Sarah Jennings
From the bestselling author of How Are You Feeling Today?, this picture book encourages children to celebrate uniqueness and diversity and helps them to challenge stereotypes.
The Same but Different explores the ways in which we’re all unique as well as the similarities we all share. Using everyday examples, clear explanations and colourful illustrations by Sarah Jennings, this book encourages children to rejoice in their differences. After all, imagine how boring the world would be if everyone was exactly the same!
This book covers lots of ways in which we’re different, including how we look, where we live, the languages we speak, what our families are like and what we believe in. It’s the perfect resource for starting important conversations with children about diversity and inclusion, with topics such as race, disability, gender, sexual orientation and religion. Early Years and PSHE expert Molly Potter also provides a glossary of terms and notes for parents and carers offering advice on tackling prejudice right from the start.
£6.99 published by Bloomsbury Education
These Let’s Talk books have really helped start conversations with Minipreneur about diversity, emotional literacy and emotional intelligence. The books help grown-ups answer children’s questions and help parents/carers challenge society’s stereotypes. We highly recommend the Let’s Talk series of books to all parents, carers and teachers.
