There's a Bully in My Brain is a delightful picture book that is sure to inspire readers of all ages. The story takes you on a journey inside the mind, and notices that a bully has taken over! But you don't have to let that bully be the boss. You have the power to tame that bully and enjoy having thoughts that are uplifting and kind.

How are meal times in your house?
Are you a short order cook- making different meals for everyone? Bargaining with your little one to try something new or just to have one more bite? We get how frustrating and draining the meal time battles can be with a young child who refuses to eat.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Let us help stop the constant stress of bribes and negotiation, so you can start enjoying time spent eating with your family. Creating meal times that nurture more than bellies.

In this fun and educational book, author Rachel Rohloff shares her passion and expertise aimed at getting young children excited about science. The Living World teaches scientific skills, key scientific vocabulary and explains the living world: with a focus on plants, animals and people. Divided into four chapters: What is the living world, plants, animals and people; each chapter includes a short introduction and is made up of two or three topics with two or three general learning outcomes and lots of hands on activities and project ideas for children. The book also offers extension ideas for those who want to learn more.

A hands-on and practical guide to providing musical experiences in early childhood settings. It will help you to equip a music play area, understand the different aspects of the music curriculum, and plan your group music programme.

Re-Edited and revised in 2022, with all-new content and images.

Children love to build, knock down and build again. This book shares all the ins and outs on how to best optimise Block Play in your Early years environment. Blocks are about maths, science, creativity, and so much more. Both boys and girls enjoy using them and the block area is a stimulating play area for children of all ages, from infants up to school age.Re-Edited, and Updated in 2022 with all-new content and images.

‘Just Breathe’ is a picture book written for children aged around 3-8 years old.

It tells a story that takes children (and parents) through a simple and engaging mindfulness exercise. This introduces a wonderful way of dealing with difficult emotions and preventing anxiety.

There has been increased attention on the importance of mindfulness education in New Zealand. Research shows that some of the major improvements from mindfulness include reducing symptoms of anxiety, stress and depression.

Hard Cover Book

It is easy in our fast-paced, competitive, consumer-driven world to forget that children are not mini-adults, projects to be managed or problems to be solved. This common-sense guide to parenting and caring for children under eight, reminds us that a child’s development cannot be rushed, or crudely measured again milestones. It takes an entire childhood to grow and there is no perfect when it comes to parenting.

In her informed, heartfelt way, popular Australian parenting author Maggie Dent takes a comprehensive look at the 9 Things that truly matter in raising children, and why they matter so much. She uses the metaphor of a wise aunty, Wilma — a voice of ancient wisdom that seems to be disappearing amidst the chaos.

With passion, warmth and humour, Maggie draws on current research and her extensive experience as an educator, counsellor and mother of four to guide parents and caregivers in their endless decision-making, to raise children who are happy, healthy, strong, kind and resilient.

“This book is a wonderful gift to parents of our time! Maggie’s genius is in weaving together research, experience and wisdom to create a very readable text that awakens our natural intuition about raising children. We are made to be good at growing up our young and Maggie captures the essence of what it is to go back to basics, go back to instincts and do right by our children.” — Dr Vanessa Lapointe, clinical psychologist and founder of The Wishing Star Lapointe Developmental Clinic in British Columbia, Canada

“I love Maggie’s writing, her previous books have already found their way into thousands of grateful parents’ hearts. Maggie’s special gift is that her writing makes hard facts, dry academic research and complex information completely accessible. She is so easy to read — that afterwards you feel so very satisfied! This book, like her others is the knowledgeable but well informed friend you always wanted.” — Jenny Mosely, author and international education consultant, and creator of QCT, Quality Circle Time, UK.

A common-sense guide to raising happy, healthy kids – from toddlers to tweens
From the queen of commonsense parenting and host of the popular ABC podcast Parental As Anything comes the ultimate guide to raising happy, healthy kids – from toddlers to tweens

How much screen time should you let your children have?
How and when do you talk about sex?
What can you do when your kid throws a tantrum?
Why should you let your children just play?
Maggie Dent has answers to your real-world parenting dilemmas.

Focusing on the most engaged-with topics from her popular ABC Parental As Anything podcast, Maggie tells us what the experts have to say, relates the experiences of other parents, and offers her own reassuring guidance to provide practical solutions to the challenges parents and caregivers face today.

This book will give you the means to be the parent you’d like to be, and help you in your quest to raise happy, healthy, thriving, resilient children.

CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Roosters and lambs: the influence of temperament
2. Managing the hot moments: meltdowns and tantrums – including your own
3. Help! How do I discipline my child?
4. Play and nature play: why they matter so much
5. Transitioning to big school
6. Raising our kids in this new, digital world
7. Anxiety in childhood and early adolescence
8. Talking to our kids about the birds and the bees in the 21st century
9. Help for feeding fussy eaters
10. Exploring death and loss in our families
11. How do I raise a resilient child?
12. Sole parenting: what helps and what doesn’t
13. Co-parenting in the 21st century
Conclusion: You’ve got this!
Acknowledgements
List of sources
Support services
272 pages
Paperback
Published by ABC Books

If we can see the world through boys’ eyes a little better, we will make different choices in the way we mother them… and we will find them less confusing, and love them more deeply.

Mothers of sons are worried about raising their boys in a world where negative images of masculinity are front and centre of our media, almost every day. Not only that, but statistically our boys are still struggling in many ways.

Even though we live in a time where we recognise that nothing in gender is fixed, it remains a fact that the influence of a mother on her son is massive.

A mother of four sons herself, Maggie Dent draws on her personal experience – and over four decades work as a teacher, counsellor and now author and speaker – to help build understanding, empathy and compassion for our boys.

Maggie shares her five key secrets that every mum needs to know, and uses the voices of men she has worked with and surveyed to reveal what really matters in a boy’s relationship with his mother and other mother figures.

Maggie is one of Australia’s most popular parenting educators and her seminars about boys have sold out all across Australia and in the UK. She is finally sharing her insights, her reflections, and (as always) her humour around mothering boys in this book that will help you be the mum your son needs you to be.

For boys, adolescence can be a confusing minefield and parents are often bewildered as to how to best guide their precious sons.

Many parents wake one day to find that their beautiful little boys have grown into silent, withdrawn, sometimes angry and often unmotivated tweens and teens.

Well-known Australian author, parenting and resilience educator, and one of Australia’s favourite boy experts Maggie Dent, offers parents and guardians a compassionate and practical guidebook, packed with advice and ground-breaking techniques on how to stay calm and:

Communicate effectively to defuse conflict
‘Unstick’ an unmotivated son
Teach them to cope with loss and failure, and how to recover
Help them foster healthy friendships and intimate relationships
Navigate technology and the digital world.
From Boys to Men empowers parents with insights, tips and a common-sense approach to help all boys – and their families – thrive as they progress through adolescence, offering hope for a future of adventure, stability, engagement and connection.

The early years of a little girl’s life will shape her future in powerful ways.

Maggie Dent, Australia’s queen of common-sense parenting, has investigated the development period from birth to age eight. Drawing on nearly 5,000 survey results, the latest research, and her own extensive experience as an educator, counsellor, facilitator, mum and grandmother, Maggie shows us how to help our girls build an emotional and psychological base for life. Secure foundations, Maggie argues, will help insulate our girls against anxiety and other mental health challenges as they grow into their teens and feel more capable and resilient while keeping their own authentic voice as they enter womanhood.

Written with all the rigour, compassion and humour we have come to expect from one of Australia’s best-loved parenting voices, this is both a deeply practical guide to raising girls birth-8, as well as a celebration and intimate meditation on the state of being female, which women of all ages will relate to.

Get all 7 of our Wild Books and you'll never be short of a nature craft idea again! Say yes to more green time and solve those 'I'm bored' moments! Or you can even keep some for yourself and use the others as gifts.

You'll receive one of each of our books:

Wild Imagination

Wild Child

Wild Celebrations

Wild Projects for Families

Wild Nature Journal

My First Wild Activity Book

Wild Activity Book

Sorry, no substitutions can be made to this pack.

Packed with all your most loved activities, this nature themed activity book will keep younger kids entertained for hours! With activities aimed at children who are learning to read, it makes a wonderful companion for travelling, car trips and school holidays. Activities focus on learning about the amazing natural world around us, as well as touching on early literacy and numeracy concepts. Inside you'll find 120 pages of:

🍁 Colouring In

🍁 Mazes

🍁 Eye Spys

🍁 Drawing Lessons

🍁 Dot to dots

🍁 Matching Games

🍁 Alphabet and number recognition

🍁 Spot the difference and more!

Suitable for pre-readers, or kids aged 4 - 7 years old.

This guided nature journal is a wonderful gift for young and old. Journaling can help children slow down, process feelings, encourage observation and build writing skills.

Inside this beautifully illustrated journal, you'll find:

🌿 An overview of how to use the journal

🌿 Moon, sunrise and sunset tracking pages

🌿 A green time habit calendar

🌿 Detailed colouring pages

🌿 Step-by-step instructions for how to draw common natural treasures

🌿 Open-ended writing prompts

🌿 Log pages to record nature sightings

🌿 Lined, blank and dotted pages for open ended writing and creativity.

The journal gently explores the concepts of mindfulness, kindness and gratefulness in an achievable way. It introduces nature connection exercises such as a Sit Spot and a senses scan.

Suitable for adults, children who can read and write, as well as younger children with the assistance of a grown up.

This book is a wonderful resource for early years and primary teachers, home schoolers, parents and grandparents seeking more nature connection ideas. It's also perfect for taking camping and for school holiday projects.

Book 4 in the Nature Craft Series. Buy the set and save 20%.

With a focus on real tools and natural materials, Wild Projects for Families is full of fun adventures + DIY activities to build connections to each other, and to the outdoors.

Suitable for adults and kids aged 3-12 years, develop new skills and build tighter bonds with over 20 hands-on projects such as…

🐞 Building a bug hotel, tree swing, mud kitchen or sewing a treasure bag.

🔥 Making damper sticks, fire and charcoal pencils while camping in the backyard.

🍁 Constructing and playing games such as Ring Toss, Floor is Lava or adventuring outdoors to geocache or build an epic sand castle.

Each activity includes detailed instructions, features beautiful full colour imagery and illustrations and uses affordable materials that can be found in the home, garage or garden.

Consider adding Paint Pens, a Whittling Knife, a Fire Starter or a Hand Drill (available in our shop) to your book order, to get the most out of the crafts within the book.

Book 3 in the Nature Craft Series. Buy the set and save 20%.

Hours of nature play ideas in one handy book. Wild Celebrations, the third book in our nature craft series, is a beautiful, practical and easy to use guide to Christmas, Easter, Seasonal and Party nature craft activities.

Full of engaging activities for kids aged 3-12 years, this is the perfect book to work through in school holidays and makes a fabulous gift! You'll discover new nature craft activities to incorporate into your family celebrations and traditions, and the activities are fun for parents, grandparents and kids alike.

Consider adding Paint Pens, a Whittling Knife or a Paper Making Kit (available in our shop) to your book order, to get the most out of the crafts within the book.

Inside this book you'll find:

🐰 Easter inspired craft ideas.

🎅 Christmas craft projects.

🍁Activities to celebrate each season.

🎂 A birthday party preparation guide, including styling tips and a timeline for planning.

🌿 Tips for a low waste party.

💚 Plastic free party favour ideas.

🥳 Fun party games to connect with nature.

🎉 Nature based activities you can do at the birthday party.

Activities are open-ended, adaptable to suit your location, require minimal craft supplies and are inexpensive.

Activities are adaptable to any celebration that is important to your family.

Inside the book you will find more than 20 nature play activities that are practical and easy to implement, including:

🍂 Seed paper

🍂 Fabric dyeing with nature

🍂 Nature hunt

🍂 Party wands

🍂 Christmas wreath

🍂 Advent calendar

🍂 Christmas cards

🍂 Stick star

🍂 Tree decorations

🍂 Easter egg dyeing

🍂 Easter bunny crown

🍂 Winter Bird feeder

🍂 Spring seed bombs and many more.

Book 2 in the Nature Craft Series. Buy the set and save 20%.

Hours of nature play ideas in one handy book. Wild Child, the second book in our nature craft series, is a beautiful, practical and easy to use nature activity guide for children aged 2-12 years.

Full of new and interesting nature-based activities, this book is suited to slightly older kids as well as young ones who have a helping hand.

With this book, you can help kids play independently with nature, and discover ways to bring nature indoors - great for those times when you're stuck inside.

This book is perfect for parents, grandparents, early years and primary teachers and home schoolers, as well as great for camping and school holiday play ideas.

Activities can be adapted to suit your children's age and interest. While some activities may require adult assistance for younger children, there are often alternatives on how you can provide a more or less challenging activity.

Activities are open-ended, adaptable to suit your location, require minimal craft supplies and are inexpensive. Consider adding Paint Pens or a Hand Drill (available in our shop) to your book order, to get the most out of the crafts within the book.

Activities are also perfect for boosting creativity, problem solving and persistence, while nature play improves fine motor skills, physical strength and coordination.

Inside the book you will find more than 20 nature play activities that are practical and easy to do, including:

🌿 Leaf crowns

🌿 Nature wings

🌿 Boats and rafts

🌿 Stick frames

🌿 Nature weaving

🌿 Bug journal

🌿 Pick up sticks

🌿 Light catcher

🌿 Leaf art and many more.

Book 1 in the Nature Craft Series.

Hours of nature play ideas in one handy book. Wild Imagination is our first book in the nature craft series. It is a beautiful, practical and easy-to-use nature activity guide for kids aged 2 - 10 years.

With this book, you'll always have an activity ready for outdoor play and you'll find ways to bring nature indoors - perfect for those times when you're stuck inside.

It makes a wonderful resource for parents and grandparents, early years and primary teachers and home schoolers seeking more nature play ideas.

Activities are open-ended, adaptable to suit your location, require minimal craft supplies and are inexpensive. There is a range of printables at the back of the book to extend the fun. Consider adding Paint Pens, Clay, a Whittling Knife or Fabric Bunting (available in our shop) to your book order, to get the most out of the crafts within the book.

Activities help boost creativity, problem solving skills and persistence, while nature play improves fine motor skills, physical strength and coordination.

Inside the book you will find more than 20 nature play activities that are practical and easy to do, including:

🌿 Flower crowns

🌿 Fabric printing

🌿 Wood whittling

🌿 Pocket press

🌿 Stick people

🌿 Magic potions

🌿 Nature masks

🌿 Mud cakes

🌿 Christmas wreath

🌿 Nature paint brushes and many more.

Kitty and I (Soft Cover) by Karyn Connors

The day that I met Kitty, I knew she was my human.

Kitty needed me, even if she didn't know it yet!

Kitty and I tells the story of the special bond that develops between a human and their Assistance Dog.

Children and adults can share in this beautiful tale of Kitty and Raffy's journey from their very first meeting, through to their becoming a team.

Their heart warming story also unfolds visually in the form of vibrant and unique artworks that illustrate, and bring to life, their journey together.

This is a recipe book, but instead of food you'll find unlickable lasagna, mud and seed cupcakes and nature's nachos!
Nature play and mud kitchens are fun and a great way for kids to get creative outdoors. The Muddy Chef embraces the switch from screen-time to green-time, with outdoor play and mud kitchens being accessible to everyone with a bit of outdoor space, dirt and water.

Co-written by Penny Whitehouse, creator of Mother Natured (www.mothernatured.com).

The great gratitude surprise - children's story book and Playing with gratitude inspiration cards

Sammy and her family find an amazing surprise at the beach and together they go on a wonderful gratitude journey.

The Playing with Gratitude Project is a mental wellness program developed to help children and their families thrive and flourish across their life span.

The Great Gratitude Surprise harvests the powerful connections that surge between the astonishing influence of play and gratitude and offers an inspiring platform for children, teachers and families to build upon their mental wellness through an exciting tale of curiosity and discovery.

Parents, this is the one thing you need to know
Edited by Sam Jockel and Kerri Ryan

Any parent knows raising kids can be as confusing, challenging and maddening as it is profoundly life-affirming. We can’t possibly have all the answers, all the time, but there are some parts of parenting you absolutely should not drop the ball on.

In this book, ParentTV’s Sam Jockel and Kerri Ryan have sought the wisdom of thirty-three experts to solve parenthood’s most diabolical head-scratchers. With diverse backgrounds in children’s health, education and psychology, these experts are armed with the data and insight to tackle everything from kids’ resilience to their relationship with food and the influence of music on developing brains.

Includes contributions from:

Sandi Phoenix • Christopher Phoenix • Dr. Arne Rubinstein • Dr. Charlotte Reznick • Dr. Kaylene Henderson • Karen Young • Maggie Dent • Pinky McKay • And many more

"My Promise" is an exceptional book for early childhood educators, written by author P.J. Guss with the educators and children at Woden Valley Early Childhood Centre in Canberra, Australia.
With its stunning illustrations and intriguing heart-warming text, the story promotes opportunities for young children to learn and explore nature through hands-on experiences, recognising their connection, rights and responsibilities to the land, challenging their abilities and finding a sense of self. This book is a must for every early learning centre.

About the author:
P.J.Guss is an aspiring author of romantic adventures and children's picture books. She writes sweet, fun, action-packed mysteries, in which her characters are smart and fearless.
She was born in Poland but studied in Australia. A teacher by day and a writer by night, she shares her life adventures with her husband, favourite and only daughter and an exceptionally perfect dog.

This full colour paperback book is a brilliant resource to discuss worry, fears, and strengths with children. Your Mighty, Magnificent Mind speaks to children and encourages them to notice and take control of their fears. It supports children to recognise whether they are really in danger or if it is their very imaginative mind that is telling them a scary story. Children will be reminded to love their mind and be kind to. The story encourages an awareness of using helpful thoughts to take over anxious ones while appreciating their wonderful creativeness all at the same time.

About the Author Monica Millgatge:

Mon is an emerging writer from Canberra, Australia. She started her writing career by entering a competition run by the Sydney Morning Herald at the age of 13 for which received an encouragement award...we knew she was destined for great things.

In 2002, Mon was on the scriptwriting team for Hi-5 in Australia and wrote for the first season. How cool is that?

Mon enjoys writing for children and proudly created Your Mighty Magnificent Mind. Since you've read this far - we'll let you in on a secret... Mon is also working with the team at Phoenix Support for Educators to produce a children's story about children's needs and rights. Eeek!

Two essential books for educators who use the Phoenix Cups framework. Please note - these are the books only (no online courses included).

1) EDUCATOR TOOLKIT FOR BEHAVIOUR - 2021 EDITION

This comprehensive workbook is the perfect companion to helping you understand children's behaviour and implement a life changing framework to build relationships, and foster educational environments where everyone can thrive.

This is not JUST a stunning, best friend of a work book. It comes packed with awesome stories, practical strategies, and inspiring conversation starters in the full colour pages.

Please note GST and shipping is displayed at checkout. Please select either international or domestic shipping from Aus.

ISBN: 978-0-6487058-4-0

AND

2) THE PHOENIX CUPS: A CUP FILLING STORY
As human beings, we all have needs that need to be met. When they aren’t met, life doesn’t function the way it should. our behaviour changes, our mood is affected, and we often feel empty and lost.
The Phoenix Cups Framework will help you understand how to meet your most important life needs, and the needs of those around you, by discovering what Cups you need to keep full, how they influence behaviours and how you can use them to build relationships in all aspects of life.

EDUCATOR TOOLKIT FOR BEHAVIOUR - 2021 EDITION

A resource for educators to unpack children's behaviour, foster social and emotional learning, and implement the Phoenix Cups® Framework.

An essential introduction for teachers and educators to The Phoenix Cups framework; a philosophy in which your team can share ideas, language, and understandings about human behaviour. This comprehensive workbook is the perfect companion to helping you understand children's behaviour and implement a life changing framework to build relationships, and foster educational environments where everyone can thrive. This is not JUST a stunning, best friend of a workbook. It comes packed with awesome stories, practical strategies, and inspiring conversation starters in the full colour pages. Excite and inspire your teaching team to try something new - that works!

Please note GST and shipping is displayed at checkout. Please select either international or domestic shipping from Aus.

ISBN: 978-0-6487058-4-0

A Collection of Michelle Worthington's Best Children's Books.

Book 1: Malibu and the Naughty Elf
Book 2: Ruby's Repair Cafe
Book 3: Possum Games
Book 4: The Three Legged Kangaroo From Uluru
Book 5: Too Much Monkey

Book 1: The Wind and the Mouse
Book 2: The Mouse and the Egg
Book 3: The Mouse and the Ballerina

The Diversity Bundle
Book 1: Each the Same
Book 2: My Brother Tom
Book 3: The Wheelchair Adventure

Dr Louise Porter's Children's Behaviour Book Pack

Young Children's Behaviour
This text is the equivalent title to Parental guidance recommended, written for early childhood teachers and centre-based care workers. It contains many of the ideas that are recommended for parents but also discusses issues that are specific to working with groups of children, such as managing group story and sleep times, resolving disputes between playmates, programming for children with disabilities or giftedness, collaborating with parents, and developing a centre policy on discipline.

Parental Guidance Recommended
This book replaces the popular Children are people too. Written for parents, it explains that although we often share the same values of the guidance approach, we end up instead using the controlling practices of rewards and punishments. This is mainly because we ourselves were raised that way, and because we get into a dance with our spirited children of coercion on our part and rebellion on theirs. However, the more we try to control these spirited children, the worse their behaviour gets. The book will help parents to prevent behavioural problems in children, support children who are distressed, be assertive when our own needs are not being met, and solve problems collaboratively. It also offers ways to solve persistent behavioural problems and reminds us to be compassionate towards ourselves.

The great gratitude surprise - children's story book and Playing with gratitude inspiration cards

Sammy and her family find an amazing surprise at the beach and together they go on a wonderful gratitude journey.

The Playing with Gratitude Project is a mental wellness program developed to help children and their families thrive and flourish across their life span.

The Great Gratitude Surprise harvests the powerful connections that surge between the astonishing influence of play and gratitude and offers an inspiring platform for children, teachers and families to build upon their mental wellness through an exciting tale of curiosity and discovery.

This bundle of resources will bring all things Engineering into your classroom. It's time to put the E in STEM!
In this pack, you will get 4 incredible books by Dr Andrew King plus a music CD with Sue Lewin.

Book 1:
Engibear’s Dream

Meet Engibear… This engineer dreams of, designs and starts building a Bearbot to help him at work. Early versions fail – often spectacularly. However, Engibear keeps trying. Follow him as his designs improve and the amazing Bearbot takes shape.

“I don’t think I have ever read a picture book that demonstrates the engineering and working technologically process so well.” (Learning Hub, Vol 2, 2015).

Book 2:
Engibear’s Bridge

The children at Munnagong Flats Public School decide on a dinosaur design for their new bridge. It’s a big job so Engilina, the city’s Chief Engineer, asks her friends Engibear and Bearbot, for some help. Follow the team as they work through the year to create a roar-inspiring attraction.

“Engibear’s Bridge is an excellent representation of the whole civil engineering process for young readers”. (The Literature Base, 2016).

Book 3:
Engilina’s Trains

Engilina, Engibear and Bearbot are back to build transport for the future – a new maglev train that will run from Munnagong to Billaburra as fast as a plane. During the project, the discover an old steam engine which leads them on an interesting journey and creates an unexpected link to the past. Travel with them on this tale of trains, teamwork technology and time…

“The growing popularity of STEM subjects in schools indicates the importance attached to areas of study such as Engineering. The bright and busy text contributes to this reputation by engaging young readers, enhancing their knowledge and challenging their imagination to solve practical engineering problems.” CBCA Reading Time (2017).

Book 4:
Young Engineers – Projects

If you can dream it, you can draw it. If you design it, you can make it.

From construction sites to spaceships, young children love engineering. And, like engineers, they enjoy creating and building their worlds. This natural link provides an ideal opportunity for them to explore engineering disciplines, concepts and practices. Young Engineers – Projects is a companion to the picture book Young Engineers. Together these books introduce engineering in an enjoyable way and encourage children to dream, draw, design, develop, sing, dance and play. With a focus on both engineering and the arts within a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics context, children are invited to: Dream it – STEAM it.

Resource 5:
Young Engineers – Songs

‘If you can dream it, you can draw it – if you design it you can make it’.

From rocket ships to ‘going off grid’, the songs on this CD explore engineering concepts and practices for young children in an enjoyable and informative way. A companion to the picture book Young Engineers, the songs cover twelve engineering disciplines. In a STEM context, melding engineering and the arts to encourage young children to Dream it – STEAM it.

As human beings, we all have needs that need to be met. When they aren’t met, life doesn’t function the way it should. our behaviour changes, our mood is affected, and we often feel empty and lost. The Phoenix Cups Framework will help you understand how to meet your most important life needs, and the needs of those around you, by discovering what Cups you need to keep full, how they influence behaviours and how you can use them to build relationships in all aspects of life.

This Book Book Book is for teachers and children to learn about chickens together. It's pages contain everything you need to know about chickens. If you are thinking about getting them for your early childhood setting, you need this book. If you already have chickens, this book will continue your journey of learning about them with the children.

This full colour, A4, 124 page resource is not just a fabulous book that you'll delight in reading with children and learning all about raising chickens.

The Book Book Book also comes with a complimentary access voucher to this online course https://phoenix-support.thinkific.com/courses/BookBookBook with downloadable resources, posters, checklist, etc. AND you'll get a link to join a live Q&A webinar conversation with Gabby Millgate and Sandi Phoenix (held quarterly).

Summer Says:

Chicken expert, Summer Farrelly, is featured throughout the book in Summer Says info boxes. When Summer was 9 years old, she wanted to share how her chicken flock helped her understand social cues and situations. Being on the autism spectrum, she at times found social settings both challenging and confusing. Her chicken flock gave her a place to belong, help her build resilience, and accept who she is. Over the past few years she has achieved this and so much more.

Reviews of The Book Book Book

“Don’t make up your mind about having chickens until you read this book.”
Vet, Sandy Hume BVSc, MVS, MANZCVS

“Gabby Millgate is a trend setter, a cage shaker, and a first class educator."
Richard Perno, 2CC

“It’s the most chickeniest book I have ever read.”
Leo Blair, aged 5

THE EVOLUTION OF MISS GABBY

Not everyone’s first foray into film earns them a line that becomes a cultural phenomenon. “You’re terrible Muriel” has stamped Gabby Millgate into the Australian national consciousness. Gabby Has been quoted by Madonna, Will Ferrell and James Cordon.

In the years between filming and release of Muriel’s Wedding (1994), Gabby graduated from Charles Sturt University (BA Comm). ‘95-’99 Gabby starred in and wrote TV sketch comedy on Full Frontal and was invited to be the only comedian on Celebrity Big Brother. Other regular TV appearances included debates, panel and chat shows. Gabby has performed live in stand-up, cabaret and musicals. She has been the MC for corporate events and community events and festivals. 2006 Radio offered Gabby daily 4am starts, talking to everyone from truck drivers to the Prime Minister. Awards and nominations followed. Then Gabby’s sense of adventure took her to the outback, presenting Breakfast for ABC NWWA. Whilst living in the Aboriginal community of Roebourne, Gabby also taught in the Correctional Centre. Gabby formed intimate and influential relationships with the Ngarluma & Yindjibandi women during her time in Roebourne. It is here, in the driest, hottest part of Australia, Gabby learnt about chickens, edible gardens and sustainability from one of her listeners who was living off the grid-a wild human. With 20 years improvising under her belt with Sydney Theatresports, Gabby relishes the unexpected and spontaneous.

Gabby has taught improvisation and creativity workshops at Australia’s premier institutions;
NIDA, NSW Education Department, Sydney University and Charles Sturt University. During the reign of Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Gabby became a YouTube go-to as the UnReal Prime Minister of Australia with regular appearances on Sunrise, ACA, ABC24, 2UE, 2GB, MTR, 2DAYFM, MMM, FOX and ABCTV Comedy www.youtube.com/gabbymillgate. In 2012 Gabby retired from showbiz and found a new passion for life in Early Childhood Education becoming Miss Gabby. In this role Gabby combined her love and understanding of being a wild human in nature with her ability to advocate on behalf of children.

In 2017 Gabby became the first Nature Pedagogy Leader in the ACT presenting that same year at the Canberra Inspired EC Nature Pedagogy Conference along side Claire Warden. Her opening remarks were “What is the difference between a correctional facility and your childcare centre?”.

“My big passionate personal goal is to advocate for Nature Pedagogy in all Early Learning Centres.”
Gabby Millgate BA (Comm.) Dip. ECE