Janine Amos

Katie Gets Lost

A story about a boy who shoplifts in order to fit in with a group of other boys provides questions for a discussion on stealing.

Thief

Letters, stories and practical advice help children learn to understand their feelings and cope with the divorce of their parents. Suggested level: primary.

Divorce

Stories about feelings and how to cope with them. Feelings and emotions affect us all.

Lonely

Liar

Follows the process of producing a pop music video, showing the stages through to editing and marketing.

Pop Videos

Well-written series using simple language. Case study narrative outlines a teenage anorexia. Incorporates facts. High YA appeal in design and illus. 11 yrs+

Why Won't Kim Eat?

Each title in this series contains simple stories about different feelings and how to cope with them. Questions throughout ask the reader to consider what each character is feeling as the story unfolds, whether they have felt like that themselves and what can be learnt from the situation.

Angry

Contains two stories based on difficult situations such as death, divorce, going into hospital and moving house. This series contains stories which intend to help children to understand and come to terms with situations involving upheaval and tragedy.

Parragon, Incorporated

On Christmas Eve, the toys in Santa's workshop are excited to discover where they will go that night, in a book with lights on every page. On board pages.

Santa's Twinkly Christmas Eve

This hard-hitting series explains what happens to young people when they develop addictions or abuse their bodies in other ways. It looks at the physical, psychological, social and emotional problems that arise from these damaging behavioural patterns and suggests ways to give up and work towards recovery.

Kate Smokes Cigarettes

Part of a series of books examining possible subjects for a day's outing and which aim to give the child information about the subject of the outing. This particular book explains what happens on a building site.

Let's Go to a Building Site

Jon Drinks Alcohol

Annabel Spenceley

Rachael Underwood

Good friends make life pleasant for all of us. The stories in these books show you how to be friendly to other people, and show that you care about them.

Don't Say That!

Good and Bad encourages children to develop skills of negotiation and cooperation, to listen and reflect on the words of others and to resolve differences by looking at alternatives.

Cheat

This series uses child-friendly stories and illustrations to show how conflict situations can be resolved. Each book contains two stories set in a primary school which can encourage children to relate to their everyday experiences. The range of behavior that needs resolving is not simply solved by adult intervention, often the children are able to sort the problem out themselves. At the end of each book there is a page asking children to think about the situations that arose in the stories and to think about how they would behave if they were one of the characters.

Why Tease?

Good manners make life pleasant for us all. Each title in Courteous Kids contains several simple and instructive stories that show young readers and children being read to by grown-ups how to be kind to other people, respect others' rights and privileges, and show that they car about others' feelings.

After You!

Stories of young children who get angry and pick on someone else provide questions for a discussion on bullies.

Bully

Each title in this series contains two stories, each one seen from a different point of view. They are suitable for teaching children to look at behaviour from different angles, encouraging them to examine their own behaviour and how it affects other people, and to forgive other peoples faults.

Two Stories Seen from Two Points of View

Kind

IThis series from Janine Amos provides a hard-hitting, yet extremely accessible approach to what happens to your body and emotional well-being when you become addicted and damaged by smoking, drinking, and taking drugs, as well as including a title which tackles the subject of safe sex and pregnancy.

Janine Amos

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