‹Avril McDonald, author of the recently published Feel Brave series of children™s books, has been busy of late in promoting her ˜little stories about big feelings™ by visiting primary schools around her local area in Kent. However she has grabbed attention from further afield in her native country of New Zealand as two of their news channels, TV3 and TVNZ, sent camera crews to film Avril in action with the kids in Loughton and Oprington this week.

Click here to watch the TV3 Newshub feature in Loughton and here to watch the TVNZ piece in Orpington.



Furthermore, Avril™s visit to St Paul™s Cray CE Primary School in Orpington proved to be a successful one as Jo Zegeling, the school™s Nursery (Early Years) Leader, gave the following glowing review:

œAt St Paul™s Cray CE Primary School, we were privileged to have a visit from the author Avril McDonald. She shared her wonderful feel brave books with our two year 1 classes. The children responded in a really positive way and the stories encouraged them to talk about their feelings and what they can do to help themselves and others. We showed the whole school these books in an assembly following Avril™s visit and we all agree that they will become an integral part of teaching feelings within our PSHE curriculum. This is an area that children do struggle with and Avril™s motivating books with their beautiful illustrations and wonderful rhymes will go a long way towards helping young children improve the way that they communicate their feelings and emotions.

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‹Avril McDonald's title The Grand Wolf - part of the recently published Feel Brave series - has been reviewed in Angels & Urchins magazine.

The review can be read here on page 75 of the online edition of the magazine.

The hugely popular title The Philosophy Shop (edited by Peter Worley) is now available in paperback, thus becoming the latest addition to the Philosophy Foundation series.

The Philosophy Foundation continue to work to embed philosophy across schools and will be hosting a ‹Philosophy TeachMeet in London on Thursday the 7th of July. Event and booking details can be found here.

Libby Nicholas and John West-Burnham˜s title Understanding Leadership has been given a glowing review on the UKEd Chat website, fetching an impressive 9.4/10 mean on content, authority, and value amongst other criteria!

Feel free to follow the link to take a look inside the book for yourself before buying your very own copy here.

As part of their latest giveaways, Toppsta are offering you the chance to win a copy of Avril McDonald's recently published title The Wolf is Not Invited to review.

Click here to enter the competition and here to view the Feel Brave titles and take a look inside the books for yourself.

The five beautifully illustrated story books are all designed to help children explore emotional intelligence, positive psychology and some of the real-life issues which they might face “ such as bullying, anxiety, bereavement, friendships and worries “ in an engaging, creative and non-threatening way, whilst the Feel Brave Teaching Guide serves as the perfect companion in providing activities and guidance on how to explore these issues in the classroom.

‹Avril McDonald, author of the recently published Feel Brave series of ˜little stories about big feelings™, has written a feature for the Psychologies.co.uk magazine website in which she discusses the series™ aim to help children manage tough emotions and reach their potential.

Click here to read the article and here to view the Feel Brave titles and take a look inside the books for yourself.



The five beautifully illustrated story books are all designed to help children explore emotional intelligence, positive psychology and some of the real-life issues which they might face “ such as bullying, anxiety, bereavement, friendships and worries “ in an engaging, creative and non-threatening way, whilst the Feel Brave Teaching Guide serves as the perfect companion in providing activities and guidance on how to explore these issues in the classroom.