How to Help When You Really Want to Help

by Davina Bell

Illustrated by Hilary Jean Tapper

Published by Lothian Childrens Books (Hachette Australia)
ISBN 9780734423658

Simple and thoughtful messages told on each page or opening spread with gentle illustrations that tell most of the stories.

This could encourage young ones from ages 3 - 5 to learn how to

help in practical and supportive ways without having to be told what to do.

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Illustrator Hilary Jean Tapper has interpreted the simple story lines beautifully so that young readers in this age group can look at the pictures and work out just how they can help, when they really do want to help in numerous ways. Whether that is around the home, people who need help and showing up at various events to show their support.

This is a pleasant and gentle book, more illustrative than wordy.

The author

Davina Bell is a children's book editor and a writer for young people of many ages. Her picture books include All the Ways To Be Smart, All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors, Under the Love Umbrella, What to Say When You Don't Know What to Say and What to Do When You're Not Sure What to Do. Her debut young adult novel, The End of the World is Bigger than Love, won the 2021 CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards' Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult Fiction.

The illustrator

Hilary Jean Tapper is an international award-winning illustrator based in New Zealand. She is winner of the ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) Children's Picture Book of the Year for 2023 and Forevability Book Awards 2022

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