Wonderings: A magical children's story of how curiosity can grow happiness

The 'Growing Happiness' book series invites children and their adults on magical journeys of self-discovery; their destination is inner peace and a quiet confidence.Guide and grow your child's emotional development through encouraging curiosity and wonder. Revel in sharing together the beautiful activities included as a bonus at the end of the book.This first Growing Happiness title, Wonderings, introduces Tommy, an inquisitive young boy, who grows his understandings through walking and talking with his mum in a quintessentially Australian location ... the 'bush'. Tommy connects with the humble tree, learning how it can stimulate all minds to discover, to believe, to cultivate, and to grow. The loving bond between the pair nurtures meaningful conversation that develops into a mindful contemplation on life's purpose, and the secret to happiness.This gentle storyline, woven through beautiful illustrations, offers the readers comforting guidance to build emotional learning and growth. The relatable discussions between mother and son offer light, yet tender, opportunities to enter into personal observations and wonderings for adults with their own children.Happiness builds a sense of safety, security, and stability. These in turn give rise to feelings of belonging and contentment in ourselves. This treasure of a book offers wisdom that goes far beyond its words - it reaches out and touches the hearts of those who read it. This poignant tale will soon become a staple for all family bookshelves. Its touching message will charm and enchant, remaining in hearts and minds, transcending childhood, whispering into the consciousness of adulthood.Activities at the end of the book foster connection and bonding for readers sharing the book. They also support observational skill development, early counting development, as well as native flora and fauna identification and naming.Suggestions of 'wonderings' that can be entered into by the readers have been included to support discussions linked to emotional development, particularly happiness.Furthermore, the book has been written to enable emerging readers to run off with their 'new favourite book', tuck themselves into a comfortable reading nook, and decode the words to proudly read the story to themselves."This is such a lovely book, and it does all the things it's supposed to when igniting not just imaginations but those thoughts that delve a little deeper. Introspection is definitely underrated, so the earlier we can instil that in children, the better." Amanda Spedding