The Little Volcano

Ages 4–8Big feelings

Eva sits cross-legged on a rug beside a small, friendly orange creature and a tower of blocks.

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30 pages, 20 x 20 cm, your child drawn from your photo on every illustrated page.

Hardcover €47.90 · Softcover €37.90

Your child is the first hero, and up to 3 more: brother or sister, mum or dad, grandparent, another grown-up. €8.00 per extra hero

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Arrives 12–17 November

1 day: we create and check your book · 2–5 days: printing · 3–6 days: delivery

Every book is checked page by page before it's printed.

When the tower falls and the volcano rumbles: volcano breaths, then build again.

What's inside

30 pages, 4 of them colouring pages to fill in
20 × 20 cm hardcover (softcover too)
Thick silk paper (170 g)
A page for grown-ups: tips and questions to talk about
Your child drawn from your photo on every illustrated page

What makes it different

Drawn from your photo on every illustrated page, not a cartoon with a name pasted in
In a Greek book, the name takes its right form in every sentence (του Γιώργου, τον Γιώργο)
Every book is checked page by page before it's printed

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Helps with

Big feelings

Anger and big feelings: naming them, cooling them down and making things right again.

The tool your child practises in the story

Volcano breaths

Put both hands on the tummy. Breathe in and feel the volcano fill up, then breathe out slowly and let the lava cool down, three times. Then say the feeling in words: "I feel angry because...". Do it alongside your child at first; later a gentle "Volcano breaths?" is often enough.

Page 26: For grown-ups. Every book ends with a page for you: what the story is about, how to talk about it, questions to ask and how to use the tool.

For grown-ups

What this story is about

When a tower falls or playtime ends, your child feels a little volcano rumble inside. The story treats anger as a normal feeling to name and cool down, never as something to be ashamed of. Volcano breaths do not make the feeling vanish; they make room to think, and your child works out what to do next. It ends with the feeling still there but calmer, the kicked block back where it belongs, and the tower built again.

Three ways to talk about it

Name it calmly before anything else: "You're really angry. Your tower fell down." Naming a feeling helps it settle.
Separate the feeling from the action: anger is always allowed; hitting or breaking things is not, and you will help stop it.
Practise volcano breaths together when everyone is calm, so they are ready when the rumble comes.

Three questions to ask

What makes your little volcano rumble?
Where do you feel it in your body: hot cheeks, tight fists, stompy feet?
When your volcano has cooled down, what helps you make things right again?

Practise the tool together: Volcano breaths

If your child's anger is very frequent or intense, lasts a long time, or often leads to hurting themselves or others, it is worth talking to your paediatrician or a child psychologist.

From a photo to the book

One phone photo is all we need. Here is Eva's photo and the cover we made from it.

Invented example: a phone photo of Eva, a made-up child (not a customer) — The photo (a made-up child)

Invented example: Eva is a made-up child, not a customer. The photo was made for this example; the book was made from it the same way we make yours.

Look inside

Twelve illustrated spreads: the picture on the left, the story on the right. These sample pages show an invented child called Eva.

CRASH! Blocks everywhere: under the sofa, behind the curtain, one inside a slipper. And deep inside Eva, something began to rumble. Rumble... RUMBLE! Hot cheeks. Tight fists. Stompy feet. It felt like a little volcano, about to erupt. "NOOO!" One foot kicked a blue block, hard. It shot across the floor, out of the open garden door, and landed on the doorstep. BONK.
Lava put both little hands on her tummy. "Breathe in, fill it up." Her tummy went round as a balloon. "Breathe out, cool it down." Whoooosh. A long, slow breath, all the way out. "Three of those," said Lava, "and the lava goes from boiling... to bathwater." Then two hands went onto a very rumbly tummy. And in went a breath.
So, together, they built a volcano tower. A big, fat bottom. A smaller middle. A little pointy top. Lava nudged one tiny block into place with her nose. "Wobble test!" A poke. Not one wobble. Last of all came the blue block: the kicked one, the bath-boat one. It went right on the very top. Taller than the door handle, and a long way from the door.

Spread 1 of 3

Inside the book

Twelve illustrated spreads: the picture on the left, the story on the right. This sample uses an invented family to show the illustration style.

Two illustrated children standing side by side, smiling, in the style of our books.

Who can be a hero

Your child, and more heroes if you like
Your child is the first hero, and up to 3 more: brother or sister, mum or dad, grandparent, another grown-up.
Your child names big feelings and cools them with volcano breaths.
- Hardcover: €47.90
- Softcover: €37.90
+ €6.90 shipping · free from 2 books
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Styles

Soft 3D
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Rounded, softly lit 3D characters with big expressive eyes. Faces stay recognisable: hair, glasses, smile.
Storybook gouache
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Matte, hand-painted colours with visible brush texture and soft edges, like a classic picture book.
Watercolour
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Loose, soft washes of colour with fine ink lines and the texture of real paper.
Pencil and watercolour
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Coloured pencil over light watercolour washes, warm and drawn by hand.
Paper collage
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Layers of cut and torn coloured paper, with grain and edges you can almost touch.
Clay
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Sculpted from soft modelling clay, like a handmade stop-motion film.
Vintage storybook
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The look of mid-century picture books: flat shapes, muted colours, a soft printed grain.
Fantasy painting
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Anime-inspired
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Pop anime 3D
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Cel-shaded 3D with big sparkling eyes and bright, glowing colours.
Bold comic
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Thick ink lines, flat bright colours, halftone dots and dynamic angles.
Cute chibi
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Tiny bodies, big heads and soft pastel colours.