The School Set

Some Mornings Feel Heavy · After the Day · The Words Went Quiet

School asks a great deal of a small nervous system, and very little of it is visible to anyone watching.

School asks a great deal of a small nervous system, and very little of it is visible to anyone watching.

These three stories cover the parts that rarely get talked about. The heaviness that arrives before the shoes are on. The collapse at the front door after a day of holding it all together. The words that are there and simply will not come out when someone kind is waiting for an answer.

None of them promise a child that school will be fine. They name what is happening, treat it as something bodies do rather than something wrong, and give families a shared language for a thing usually only communicated by refusing to move.

Three paperback picture books. For children aged four to eight.

These three stories cover the parts that rarely get talked about. The heaviness that arrives before the shoes are on. The collapse at the front door after a day of holding it all together. The words that are there and simply will not come out when someone kind is waiting for an answer.

None of them promise a child that school will be fine. They name what is happening, treat it as something bodies do rather than something wrong, and give families a shared language for a thing usually only communicated by refusing to move.

Three paperback picture books. For children aged four to eight.

*Printed to order. Dispatched within 3–5 working days.