Description

Everyone is feeling something. Even the ones who look fine.
Eleven busy places: a shop that is too loud, a party, a waiting room, a school carpet, a house at bedtime. Hundreds of beans, and every one of them feeling something.
On every page there are two things to look for:

The first one has an answer: one bean is holding a blue jar, one has both feet off the ground, and one has its eyes shut tight because it has had enough. It is somewhere on the page, and it can be found.
The second one does not have an answer: it asks which bean is you today. That one changes.

Twenty ways a body can be — sleepy, heavy, proud, shy, curious, too much, not sure — learned by looking rather than by being taught. There is no lesson attached to any of them, and no bean on any page is the one to aim for.
Big Bean is on every page too. Always somewhere. Always near.

For grown-ups:
A child who can name a state can ask for what it needs, and looking comes before naming. A child who will not answer ‘how was school’ can often put a finger on a bean. There is a note for parents, teachers and SENCOs at the back.

From the Little Signals world: quiet stories and tools that help small humans notice their signals and find their way back to steady. No quick fixes. No hype. Regulation before optimisation.