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Join Thistle, the spirited flower elfling, as she grapples with the prickly tendrils of anger. Young readers are invited to explore the beginnings of anger blooming within Thistle's petals. How can she help her anger?! Through Thistle's journey of self-discovery, children uncover the power of identifying and understanding their own emotional landscapes.
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Amber McMurphy is an author illustrator of children's books, digital illustrator and nature photographer. Her mission is to help young children that struggle with delayed emotional processing. Through her characters, she helps children identify in themselves and find creative ways to handle complicated feelings. Her personal challenges with autism and alexithymia and her children's difficulties has inspired this series!
"My aim is to provide children and caregivers with positive ways to deal with change and growth and emotion, especially in the neurodivergent population."
Thistle is Fuming! is about a young Florian (tiny flower beings), who struggles with anger. It helps children learn to identify the signs that anger is building within themselves and learn multiple ways to channel the intensity of those feelings productively.
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