The Waiting: A Story About the Space Before Things Happen

Description

Waiting is its own experience, and children feel it in the body long before they have words for it. The stomach that will not settle before a party. The afternoon that refuses to end before a visitor arrives. The appointment that is still two sleeps away and already taking up all the room.

The Waiting is a story about that stretchy in-between time. It notices how waiting for something lovely and waiting for something frightening can feel oddly similar, and how both make time behave strangely.

Rather than telling children to be patient, it gives them a way of recognising the feeling — which turns out to make it considerably easier to sit inside.

For every household counting down to something.

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