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Ten picture books for young children dealing with delicate issues.

Helping Hands books is a series of ten beautifully illustrated story/picture books for children aged 4 to 10.
These books deal with important events that occur in the life of young children; events in which social and emotional aspects play a major role. Each book deals with a single theme. Helping Hands books can be used to help children understand things that are happening to them, and emotions resulting from sickness, violence, fear, death, loneliness and sorrow.
Helping Hands are written in plain and accessible language. Children aged 6 to 10 can read the books by themselves. For younger children they are magnificent picture books.

Already more than 300,000 copies of the Heart-to-Heart Books have been spread all over the world in 10 languages and in 14 countries.

Helping Hands Books (11 volumes)
Genre: fiction-faction
Age range: 4-10
Format 21,5 x 26,5 cm - hardback 40 pages
Text by Rien Broere
Illustrations (in full colour) by Ann De Bode
Book design by Ann De Bode

• Tomorrow I’ll be better (Morgen ben ik weer beter)
  This book is about Rosie. There’s something wrong with her heart.
  That is why she has to go to hospital. The doctor will make her heart all better. Rosie is very excited. So much is happening in hospital. She wants to know everything. Rosie is very brave and Teddy will stay with her all the time.
  This will help her get better soon. 
  
  
• Could you leave the light on? (Mag het licht nog even aan?)
  This book is about Naomi. Noami is staying over at her cousin Caroline’s.
  But Naomi is afraid. Afraid of the dark. She will spend the whole night in a strange bed. A night full of ghosts and monsters. And she does not want to tell Carlonine. Caroline is never afraid of anything. Or so she says…

 

• Granddad, I’ll always remember you (Opa duurt ontelbaar lang)
  This book is about Tom. Something terrible happened. His granddad died.
  Now Tom’s mind is filled with questions. Where’s granddad? Can he feel anything? And does he even know he’s dead? Tom would like to tell granddad what happened. Suddenly he comes up with a brilliant plan…

• They’re always after me (Altijd moeten ze mij hebben)
  This book is about Peter. Peter moved house. Now he has to go to a new school and make new friends. He meets Jack. Jack is the greatest bully of the neighbourhood. He’s always after Peter. It gets worse every day.
  And then something happens. Peter finds out that Jack has a secret. 

• You will always be my dad (Maar jij blijft mijn papa)
  This book is about Laura. Her Mum and Dad stopped being married. Laura and her brother Thomas live with Mum. Dad lives somewhere else. Slowly, Laura is getting used to this. One day, a friend of Mum’s comes to visit. Mum and her friend really like each other. Laura gets a little frightened when she hears this.
  She doesn’t want him to take her dad’s place. She is going to get rid of this friend fast… 

• A child from a faraway place (Een kind van ver)
  This book is about David. David was adopted when he was one year old. In class, the children and the teacher talk about when they were babies. They bring their baby things. David doesn’t have anything from when he was a baby.
  He’s afraid they will think he is strange. But his mother has a great idea. 

• Pay up, or else! (Bang voor de bende)
  This book is about Robert. He worries about his friend Felix. Felix has been really quiet lately. And sometimes he hangs out with the Gang. The Gang is a group of three boys and two girls. The whole school is afraid of them. And there is a thief in the class. One day, Robert sees someone going through the coats.
  He discovers who the thief is! He has never experienced a greater shock… 

• What about me? (Ik ben er ook nog)
  This book is about Mary. She has a little baby brother, Billy. Everybody is celebrating. Mary loves her little brother. But she is a little mad at her father and mother. They only pay attention to Billy now. They are pampering him all day long. As if he is their favourite child. So, what about her? They are soon to find out! 

• Warriors in my blood (Ridders in mijn bloed)
  This book is about Paul. Paul hasn’t been to school for six months. He was very ill. Something was wrong with is his blood. That is why he had to go to hospital.
  Now Paul can go back to school. It’s a little scary, after all this time. And there is so much to explain. About what happened in those seven months. And why he looks so different. 

• Where’s Mum gone? (Waar is mama?)
  This book is about Jessie. She goes to town with her Mum. They visit almost every shop. Jessie is tired, she wants to go home. But … Where’s Mum gone?
  Jessie lost sight of her. And now she cannot find her anywhere. In a panic, she leaves the shop. Soon she does not know where she is. What is she to do? 
  

 

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