The Words Went Quiet: A Little Signals Story for Children When Words Are Hard to Find

Description

Some children go loud when things get difficult. Others go completely quiet, and the quiet is often mistaken for calm.

The Words Went Quiet is written for the second kind. It follows a child whose words are there and simply will not come out — in the classroom, in a shop, in front of somebody kind who is waiting patiently for an answer. Nobody in the story tells them to speak up or be brave.

Instead it shows what the quiet feels like from inside, and lets the words come back in their own time, as they generally do when nothing is being demanded of them.

For the adults who want to help without pressing.

Part of Little Signals — gentle stories about what bodies do when feelings get big. For children aged 4–8.