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The Boat Star
A Story about Loss
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This gently illustrated storybook is suited for children and can be a helpful resource for practitioners, educators, and parents to start conversations about bereavement and coping with loss.
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The Boat Star is a therapeutic story about dealing with a painful loss and taking comfort in good memories. In this poignant story, a boy loses a special feather and goes on a magical journey to try to recover it. Although he doesn’t find his feather, he is comforted by the memory of the feather and realises he will feel better over time.
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The Boat Star is a therapeutic story about dealing with a painful loss and taking comfort in good memories.
In this poignant story, a boy loses a special feather and goes on a magical journey to try to recover it. Although he doesn’t find his feather, he is comforted by the memory of the feather and realises he will feel better over time.
This beautifully illustrated storybook will appeal to all children, and can be used by practitioners, educators, and parents as a tool to discuss bereavement and coming to terms with feelings of loss with children.
This story can be purchased alongside six other storybooks as part of a set (ISBN: 9781138556478), as well as in a set alongside the guidebook Nurturing Emotional Resilience in Vulnerable Children and Young People and six other storybooks (9781138556454). The guidebook outlines ways to use these beautifully told and visually appealing stories to nurture emotional resilience with children and will be invaluable tools for anyone working to build emotional resilience with children and young people.
Series: Nurturing Emotional Resilience Storybooks
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This set of seven therapeutic storybooks contains stories that each tell of a different journey centred around a particular theme, such as emotional resilience, self-care, friendship, stress, resilient thinking, and dealing with loss. Designed for use alongside the guidebook Nurturing Emotional Resilience in Vulnerable Children and Young People (ISBN: 9781909301856), these beautifully illustrated storybooks will appeal to all children, and...Set$19800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Nurturing Emotional Resilience in Vulnerable Children and Young People is a guidebook that provides a framework and practical strategies to support children’s emotional resilience at a whole-school and more targeted level. Underpinned by research into the concept of resilience, the book centres around the ‘Resiliency Rainbow Toolkit’; a ready-to-use theoretical model that draws upon a range of ideas and approaches...Paperback$8499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Boat Star
The Boat Star is a therapeutic story about dealing with a painful loss and taking comfort in good memories. In this poignant story, a boy loses a special feather and goes on a magical journey to try to recover it. Although he doesn’t find his feather, he is comforted by the memory of the feather and realises he will feel...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781138308824
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 November 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Illustration: 30 Halftones, color; 30 Illustrations, color
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Julia Gallego
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 210.0mm
Height: 297.0mm
Weight: 174g
Pages: 38
About the Author
Juliette Ttofa is a Specialist Senior Educational Psychologist with 15 years’ experience working with children and young people. She specialises in supporting resilience and well-being in vulnerable children.
Julia Gallego is a picture book illustrator and designer, and a graduate of the Manchester School of Art
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