The Coronavirus & Children’s Fears: a Story Here to Help Carolina is a young girl who wants to tell her story. She invites you into her colourful life, where she paints and plays. Suddenly the virus comes… and so Carolina is prompted to go on a journey inside herself. I Can See It With My Elephant Eye
is a children’s book (age range 4-12 years) with a psychological angle. It’s a light and colourful story that addresses children’s fears and worries and also finds an appropriate way to talk to children about loss and death. It’s a book able to open up a space for discussion about the pandemic and the times we are all living through.
“It is one of the best books you can read right now because it can make you feel less worried”
Paola Somaini is an Italian psychoanalyst living in London.
Honor, 9 years old “This tender and sensitive piece of writing, stunningly illustrated, will help us all to feel much better during this scary time of the coronavirus”
“In this compelling children’s story colours, images and words come together to bring our common fears alive in a vivid, playful and also comforting way”
Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology
Angela Joyce, Adult & Child Psychoanalyst, Chair of The Winnicott Trust
The book is available as Ebook (£6.00) and Paperback (£8.00) on Amazon, and as Hardback (£15.00) on Lulu Publishing.
“It’s an emotional story told in the lightest shimmering way. A jewel of a children’s story and a psychoanalytic book too” Dr Jonathan Sklar, Training Analyst, British Psychoanalytic Society
The full proceeds of the sale of the book will go to place2be (www.place2be.org.uk), a charity dedicated to providing counselling and emotional support to children in school.