Brave As Can Be

TH9233

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Brave As Can Be features large, sturdy, die-cut pages, where a little girl talks about her fears and how she copes with them. The pen-drawn girl gazes at a greenish mound that spills over the gutter to where she stands on the verso as she confesses, “When I was little, I was afraid of everything! Little creaks and squeaks and booming thunderclaps. Teeny creepy-crawlies and monstrous, pointy fangs. I had a pile of fears as big as a mountain.”The next double-page spread, sporting a comical, blue-furred, monster-ish being, describes the icy feeling that often accompanies fear; its yawning mouth is a circular cutout that leads to the next spread. On it, the girl mentions fear of the dark, this time also explaining what helps her: “a bright night-light and my super powered pajamas, which are 100 percent danger-proof.”On each successive double-page spread, the girl describes one fear and then explains her coping mechanism, always aided by enormously amusing art, plus the bonus of punched-out holes. There’s even a child-friendly version of the imagine-your-audience-nude advice sometimes given to timorous adults, as the girl imagines her angry teacher as an owl: “Imagining her feathers makes me feel brave.” The book also affirms the fact that sometimes it’s fun to scare and be scared, as at Halloween.Suitable for children ages 3-6 years.Dimensions (cm): 26.7 x 25.4 x 1.5

MTA Early Years Catalogue Page: 420

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TE WHARIKI STRANDS Te Whariki Strand 1 Able to express emotional needs, ask for attention and trust