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The Casper and Bentley Development Library

Helping young children understand themselves through stories, play and everyday experiences.

Every Casper & Bentley series has been created to support a different area of children's emotional and developmental growth. Together, the collections help children build self-awareness, emotional language, confidence and understanding through gentle, everyday stories.

Written especially for children with ADHD,but beneficial for all children. 

Emotional Series

A children’s emotional intelligence book series forages 2–7

These gentle stories help children:​

  • Recognise big feelings in their bodies

  • Understand why emotions happen

  • Learn that feelings don’t last forever

  • Experience support, not correction​

Self-awareness series

A children’s self-awareness book series for ages 2–7

These gentle stories help children:

  • notice body signals and internal sensations

  • understand what their body is communicating

  • begin listening to themselves with confidence

  • build awareness before regulation

Regulation Series

A children’s Regulation book series for ages 2–7

These gentle stories help children:

  • Recognise when feelings begin to build

  • Notice what their bodies are telling them

  • Discover simple ways to pause and regulate

  • Develop emotional regulation through repeated everyday experiences

Sensory Series

A children’s Sensory book series for ages 2–7

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These calm stories help children:

• Notice how their bodies respond to sounds, textures and busy spaces
• Understand that bodies can react before we know why
• Reduce fear around unfamiliar sensations
• Build early sensory and emotional language

Explore the MindfulMama Storybook Collections Multipack

Each MindfulMama storybook collection focuses on a different area of early development, helping children explore ideas through characters, experiences and conversations they can understand and relate to.

Choose from Emotional Understanding, Emotional Regulation, Self-Awareness and Sensory Awareness, depending on the area you would like to explore with your child or within your setting.

The stories are designed to support children’s learning while also giving adults language and ideas they can carry into everyday conversations and experiences.

Emotional Understanding 

STORYBOOK COLLECTION

Helping children begin to recognise, understand and talk about different feelings through stories and familiar experiences.
Includes 8 MindfulMama storybooks

Stories exploring feelings such as frustration, jealousy, loneliness, fear, happiness and sadness.

£76 individually

£65 collection price

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Sensory Awareness 

STORYBOOK COLLECTION

Helping children explore how their senses experience the world and begin to understand their own sensory preferences and differences.

Includes 4 MindfulMama storybooks

Stories exploring sight, sound, touch, taste, smell and sensory experiences.

£36 individually

 

£32 collection price

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Self-awareness

STORYBOOK COLLECTION

Helping children begin to understand themselves, their thoughts, experiences and the way they may see situations differently.

Includes 7  MindfulMama storybooks

Stories that encourage reflection, different perspectives and understanding yourself.

£63 individually

 

£55 collection price

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Emotional Regulation 

STORYBOOK COLLECTION

Helping children explore what happens when feelings become difficult and gradually develop ways of responding to them.

Includes 3 MindfulMama storybooks

Stories that support conversations about big feelings, reactions and what children can begin to do with them.

£27 individually

 

£24 collection price

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Made with neurodivergent children in mind, but made for every child.

The Casper & Bentley stories explore feelings, senses, self-awareness and everyday experiences in a gentle, developmentally supportive way. While they have been created especially with neurodivergent children in mind, the stories and the learning within them can be enjoyed by all children as they grow, learn and begin to understand themselves and the world around them.

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