Publishing is awash with titles for kids focused on worries, feelings and emotional literacy – and parents are buying them in droves
. “We could see there’s obviously a market for this,” she says. “We could see there was a hunger.”
“I also think it’s to do with attitudes around parenting, which have really changed a lot,” she says. Parents now are more aware of the need to emotionally support children, give them emotional vocabulary, honour their feelings.The trend is not limited to picture books. “In children’s fiction, which is the nine to 12-year-old range, we’re seeing huge amounts of anxious characters,” says Gleebooks Robson.
Foxlee does not like to think in terms of publishing trends; it’s a fast path to losing your way as a writer, she says. “I was probably channelling my own inner child ‘worrier’,” she says, of focusing her book on a child with anxiety.
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