Story Book
Hattie lives by herself on an island. She likes anything hard and spiky. Lots of people try to bring kindness to Hattie on her island, but each time she is very horrid to them, smashing and spoiling everything they try to do for her. So after a while they all stop coming to the island. Hattie is very alone, and she tries to figure out why she hates love and loves hate. She thinks it must be because she is a very bad girl. But the lapping water over her feet help her understand her sadness in a too hard world, she has become hard too, so that the awful fear and pain could go away. In the end, Hattie builds a bridge to the warm and cozy world across the water.

Guide Book
If a child is to benefit from the full therapeutic potential of the storybooks, then we strongly recomend that the accompanying guidebooks are used in conjunction with the stories. We advise reading the accompanying guide book before reading the story with the child, which will enable you to come to the child from a far more informed postion, and thus offer a far richer and more empathetic response.

Each guide book focuses on a key feeling and is written in a very user-friendly language, covering the most relevant psychotherapeutic and neurobiological theories for that feeling.

Includes what children themselves have said about what it is like for them, what they have felt struggling with the too difficult feeling and what they have done because of it.

Provides exercises, tasks and ideas for things to say and do to help children. The exercises and ideas are specifically designed to help a child think about, express and process the feelin to the point of resolution. Some are also designed to inspire children to speak more about what they are feling through their own spontaneous story making.

Includes pictures and stories by children.

Many of the exercises offered will support children in creative, imaginative and playful ways of expressing themselves.

Other books in the series:
• Willy and the Wobbly House: A story for children who are anxious or obsessional
• A Wibble Called Bipley: A story for children who have hardened their hearts or become bullies
• The Day the Sea Went Out and Never Came Back: Helping Children with Loss
• A Nifflenoo Called Nevermind: A story for children who bottle up their feelings Nifflenoo always carries on whatever happens
• The Frog who Longed for the Moon to Smile: A story for children who yearn for someone they love
• A Pea Called Mildred: A story to help children pursue their hopes and dreams
• How Hattie Hated Kindness Helping Children Locked in Rage or Hate
• Teenie Weenie in a Too Big World: Helping Children with Fear
• Ruby and the Rubbish Bin Helping Children who Think They are Worthless