The Kindness Garden
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30 pages, 20 x 20 cm, your child drawn from your photo on every illustrated page.
Hardcover €47.90 · Softcover €37.90
Your child is the first hero, and up to 4 more: brother or sister, mum or dad, grandparent, another grown-up, pet. €8.00 per extra hero
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Every kind deed makes a flower grow, even when sharing is hard.
What's inside
- 30 pages, 4 of them colouring pages to fill in
- 20 × 20 cm hardcover (softcover too)
- Thick silk paper (170 g)
- A page for grown-ups: tips and questions to talk about
- Your child drawn from your photo on every illustrated page
What makes it different
- Drawn from your photo on every illustrated page, not a cartoon with a name pasted in
- In a Greek book, the name takes its right form in every sentence (του Γιώργου, τον Γιώργο)
- Every book is checked page by page before it's printed
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Helps with
Kindness
Sharing and friendship: feeling the tug of "mine!" and choosing kindness anyway.
The tool your child practises in the story
Kind deeds make the garden grow
Draw a garden on paper and add a flower for every kind deed: sharing, taking turns, helping or a kind word. When sharing feels hard, say the turn-taking words together, "My turn, then your turn", and use a timer if it helps. Praise the effort, even when the "mine" feeling is still there.
For grown-ups
What this story is about
A new friend wants a turn with your child's favourite red watering can, and a big "mine!" feeling shows up. The story shows that this feeling is normal and allowed: your child feels it, takes a breath and chooses kindness one small step at a time, right up to the hardest turn of all, the first go with the red can. Every kind deed makes the magic garden grow.
Three ways to talk about it
- Name the feeling without judging it: "It's hard to share something you love. That 'mine' feeling is big."
- Notice small kind deeds out loud, like taking turns, helping or saying something nice: "That was kind. I think a flower just grew."
- Let your child keep a few very special things that don't have to be shared, and practise taking turns with the rest.
Three questions to ask
- Where in your body do you feel a "mine" feeling? What does it feel like?
- Which kind things made the garden grow in the story?
- What kind deed could you plant tomorrow, and for whom?
Practise the tool together: Kind deeds make the garden grow
Draw a garden on paper and add a flower for every kind deed: sharing, taking turns, helping or a kind word. When sharing feels hard, say the turn-taking words together, "My turn, then your turn", and use a timer if it helps. Praise the effort, even when the "mine" feeling is still there.
If sharing and playing with other children stay very hard for a long time, or often end in big upsets, it is worth talking to your paediatrician or a child psychologist.
From a photo to the book
One phone photo is all we need. Here is Hana's photo and the cover we made from it.
Invented example: Hana is a made-up child, not a customer. The photo was made for this example; the book was made from it the same way we make yours.
Look inside
Twelve illustrated spreads: the picture on the left, the story on the right. These sample pages show an invented child called Hana.
Splosh! The water landed on the visitor: a round little bumblebee in a tiny green scarf. "Oops! Sorry!" The bee wrung out her scarf. Drip, drip. "Good morning to you too. I'm Buzzy." She pointed one little leg at a round patch of bare soil, edged with white stones. "Nothing grows there," she said. "Not yet." Rustle, rustle, went the hedge.
Hana watered one row of daisies first. Swish, swash. Then, slowly, the red can went out to Pip. "My turn... then your turn." The mine feeling was still there. Just a little. Pip watered the next row, very, very carefully. Then: pop! Right in the middle of the bare patch, a tiny blue flower opened. "Buzzy! Did you see that?" Buzzy only smiled.
Pop, pop, POP! Flowers burst open everywhere: blue and orange, yellow and pink, tall ones, tiny ones, curly ones. Buzzy zoomed from bloom to bloom. Then Pip turned round, and everybody laughed, Pip most of all. Tiny flowers were growing all over his spines! "Pip! You're a garden too!"
Spread 1 of 3
Inside the book
Twelve illustrated spreads: the picture on the left, the story on the right. This sample uses an invented family to show the illustration style.
Mia had a little garden behind the house, and in it, one favourite thing: a small, bright red watering can. Swish, swash, sprinkle! The tomatoes drank. The daisies drank. "Every plant gets a drink. From MY red can." Then something small and fuzzy landed right on the spout.
Who can be a hero
Your child, and more heroes if you like
Your child is the first hero, and up to 4 more: brother or sister, mum or dad, grandparent, another grown-up, pet.
Your child learns to take turns with a shy hedgehog, and the garden blooms.
- Hardcover: €47.90
- Softcover: €37.90
+ €6.90 shipping · free from 2 books
Personalise this book
Styles
Soft 3D
AvailableRounded, softly lit 3D characters with big expressive eyes. Faces stay recognisable: hair, glasses, smile.
Storybook gouache
AvailableMatte, hand-painted colours with visible brush texture and soft edges, like a classic picture book.
Watercolour
AvailableLoose, soft washes of colour with fine ink lines and the texture of real paper.
Pencil and watercolour
AvailableColoured pencil over light watercolour washes, warm and drawn by hand.
Paper collage
AvailableLayers of cut and torn coloured paper, with grain and edges you can almost touch.
Clay
AvailableSculpted from soft modelling clay, like a handmade stop-motion film.
Vintage storybook
AvailableThe look of mid-century picture books: flat shapes, muted colours, a soft printed grain.
Fantasy painting
AvailableRich, painterly fantasy scenes full of glowing light.
Anime-inspired
AvailableClean line art, cel shading and large, expressive eyes.
Pop anime 3D
AvailableCel-shaded 3D with big sparkling eyes and bright, glowing colours.
Bold comic
AvailableThick ink lines, flat bright colours, halftone dots and dynamic angles.
Cute chibi
AvailableTiny bodies, big heads and soft pastel colours.
Formats and prices
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