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A wonderful tale to help children understand how anxiety really works so they can better challenge their own fears.

What happens if you become afraid of something that's totally safe?

This engaging short rhyming tale for 4-9 year olds is a wonderful story that helps children understand how anxiety really works so they can better challenge their own fears.

Written by one of the UK's leading anxiety specialists, Howard Cooper, ‘The Rustle of Leaves’ is a great way of helping young children discover that an anxious response is not always the most helpful one.

Pippa the Rabbit accidentally causes her children to become afraid of the ‘Rustle of Leaves’, which means that when Fox offers to keep them safe from the ‘dangerous’ rustling, they find themselves in a truly tricky situation.

"The food looked ripe,

The lettuce was green,

There were no other dangers

or threats to be seen,

But the ‘RUSTLE OF LEAVES’ had made mum zoom.

The ‘RUSTLE OF LEAVES’ must mean certain doom!”

The story is bought to life with beautiful illustrations by up and coming illustrator Jacob Rosier and is a book your children will want to read over and over again as they lose themselves in the wonderful pictures.

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Helen Rutter, Author of "The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh"

"A lovely story to read out loud"

Georgia Byng, Author of "The Molly Moon" Series

"A gripping and thought-provoking story/psychology lesson about some rabbits and a fox that wakes up its readers to the idea that their own anxieties might be false."

Shawn Elliot Russell, Author of "Be Still Little Tree Be Still'

" 'The Rustle of Leaves' is set to become a timeless classic. Through its wonderfully crafted story and rich illustrations your children will not only smile, but will begin to challenge their own fears" -

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