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Stories, updates, and letters from the studio.
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How Letters Can Improve Reading Confidence
Why Reading Confidence Matters So Much Reading confidence can shape the way a child feels about books, learning, and even themselves. A child who feels confident reading is more likely to pick up stories willingly, have…
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What Is a Child Clinical Psychologist, and How Can Dr Rachel’s Stories Help Children?
Why Parents May Wonder Who Is Behind Our Stories When choosing stories for children, especially stories that touch on emotions, worries, confidence or big feelings, it is natural for parents and carers to want to know w…
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Personalised Letters vs Personalised Books: Which Makes the Better Gift?
Personalised Gifts Feel Extra Special Finding a gift for a child can be surprisingly difficult. There are toys, books, games, clothes, craft sets, gadgets, and an endless army of plastic objects that make noise for no c…
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The Best Letterbox Gifts for Children
Why Letterbox Gifts Feel So Special to Children There is something wonderfully exciting about post arriving through the door. For adults, the post is usually bills, leaflets, and envelopes that look far too serious for …
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How Storytelling Helps Children Build Confidence
Why Confidence Matters So Much in Childhood Confidence plays a huge role in how children experience the world. It affects whether they put their hand up in class, try something new, make friends, ask questions, recover …
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Stories That Help Children Understand Big Feelings
Why Big Feelings Can Be Hard for Children to Understand Children feel things deeply. Joy can become bouncing-off-the-walls excitement. Sadness can feel like the end of the world. Anger can arrive like a tiny thunderstor…
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Educational Adventure Stories: Learning Without Making It Feel Like Homework
Why Children Learn Better When They Are Curious Children are naturally curious. They ask questions constantly. Sometimes lovely questions, like “Why is the moon following us?” Sometimes deeply inconvenient q…
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Adventure Stories for Children Who Love Clues, Maps and Mysteries
Why So Many Children Love a Good Mystery Some children love dragons. Some love pirates. Some love talking animals, brave explorers, or magical worlds hidden behind ordinary doors. And some absolutely light up at the wor…
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Why Children Still Love Getting Letters in the Post
Why Real Letters Still Feel Magical In a world full of tablets, notifications, apps, videos, and tiny digital noises demanding attention every six seconds, a real letter can feel surprisingly magical. Especially to a ch…
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How Storytelling Can Help Children Talk About Worries
Why Children Can Find Worries Hard to Explain Worry can be a strange feeling for children. It can sit quietly in their tummy, buzz around their head, stop them sleeping, or make ordinary things feel suddenly enormous. S…
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Stories That Help Children Understand Big Feelings
Why Big Feelings Can Feel So Overwhelming for Children Children feel deeply. Sometimes beautifully. Sometimes loudly. Sometimes in the middle of a supermarket aisle while everyone pretends not to look. Big feelings are …
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Why Personalised Letters Help Children Fall in Love with Reading
Why Some Children Struggle to Enjoy Reading Not every child picks up a book and instantly disappears into a magical kingdom. Some children find reading boring, difficult, tiring, or simply less exciting than the glowing…
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Why Real Letters Still Feel Like Magic
There is something wonderfully special about receiving a letter. Not an email lost in a crowded inbox.Not a notification that vanishes in seconds.A real letter. Addressed to you. Folded with care. Waiting on the doormat…
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