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What to Say When You Don't Know What to Say - Davina Bell

What to Say When You Don't Know What to Say

By: Davina Bell, Hilary Jean Tapper (Illustrator)

Hardcover | 10 June 2025 | Edition Number 1

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Hardcover
32 Pages

Age
2+

Grade
P - K

Dimensions(cm)
28 x 21.5 x 1

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From the award-winning author of All the Ways to Be Smart, comes a warm and whimsical guide to negotiating new experiences and big emotions with empathy, kindness and words from the heart.

I'm not brave enough today. Maybe next time.
You're hurting my feelings right now.
Want to join in?

A warm and whimsical guide to negotiating life's little moments and big emotions with empathy, kindness and words from the heart.

From award-winning and much-loved author Davina Bell and exciting new illustrator, Hilary Jean Tapper.

About the Illustrator

Hilary Jean Tapper is a New Zealand based illustrator, creative arts therapist and doll maker. She has drawn, painted and aspired to illustrate for picture books since she was a child. Hilary's grandfather, Garth Tapper, was a New Zealand painter and inspired her from her earliest years to pursue the arts. She works with watercolour, ink and pencil, and loves to draw children and nature.

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