This page is my gift to you … every few months I will offer new stories from my collections …

The Forest School - a story written in 2023 by Petra Kapović Vidmar in Croatia for students and their teachers after an earthquake - click here for a copy

THERAPEUTIC STORIES FOR UKRAINIAN REFUGEES - written by Susan Perrow and Didi Devapriya, president of AMURTEL. The following website offers a download link. The books are available for free, in English, Ukrainian, Romanian and Russian, thanks to generous funding from CARE and its partner SERA … https://therapeutic-stories.amurtel.ro/

Stories for the Flood Situation:

For a copy of the illustrated picture book published for flood affected families (in German) - email me as file is too big to load

For a copy of ‘The Sparkling River’ (a ‘cycle of life’ story written during a time of devastating floods) - click here

NEED OF THE HOUR - Stories for the Covid-19 Pandemic for Young Children

(scroll down to find some resilience tales for older children, teens and adults)

Back to School for Little Gnome

A story for children to help soothe anxieties about returning to school after lockdown - written as a sequel to my story ‘The Little Gnome who had to Stay Home’ - click here

‘A Light for Little Gnome’s Lantern’

A story written for children (but really for all ages!) at the end of an extraordinary year - click here

‘The Little Gnome Who Had To Stay Home’

A story and poem for little children in this Covid 19 time - click here - you can extend it with your children by making a picture book, creating a puppet show, dancing it, making music for it, acting it out, and many other kinds of activities for ‘at home’ life.

Translated versions of ‘The Little Gnome Who Had To Stay Home’:

Bulgarian - click here; Croatian - click here; Danish - click here; French - click here; Gaeilge - click here; German - click here; Hebrew - click here; Hungarian - click here; Indonesian - click here; Italian - click here; Japanese - click here; Khmer (Cambodian) click here: Macedonian - click here; Mandarin - click here; Norwegian - click here; Persian - click here; Polish - click here; Portuguese - click here; Romanian - click here; Slovakian - click here; Slovenian - click here; Spanish (from Chile) - click here; Thai - click here; Traditional Chinese - click here; Turkish - click here; Vietnamese - click here.

Serbian - http://kovacnicaprica.com/mali-patuljak-koji-je-morao-da-ostane-u-kuci/

Catalan (audio) - https://m.soundcloud.com/txell-verdaguer-i-mas/el-petit-gnom-que-havia-de-quedar-se-a-casa

Mandarin (audio) - https://www.lizhi.fm/28174436/2795107085276770310?u=2512442661623133228

New Mexico - Storytelling Website (Taos Earth Children) - https://howtotellstoriestochildren.com/blog1/little-gnome-had-to-stay-home

Puppet making instructions from Pennsylvania - click here

Beautifully illustrated e-book of Little Gnome in English by Umaporn Diloksri Lucic (produced in Thai by Supitcha) - click here

Who Could Be Knocking on Little Gnome’s Door? - to read many responses to this question, click here

‘A Handkerchief for Little Possum’

A rhyming story for children in this C-19 pandemic who are overly anxious about ‘germs’ and getting ill - click here

Translated versions of ‘A Handkerchief for Little Possum’

Thai - click here

Spanish: http://www.marisa-fernandez.es/un-panuelo-para-la-pequena-zarigueya-susan-perrow-2020/

‘10 Little Fishies’

Two hand washing and bath time poems for young children - click here; Spanish version - http://www.marisa-fernandez.es/10-pececillos-poema-cancion-de-lavarse-las-manos-para-ninos-pequenos-susan-perrow-marzo-2020/

Song for 10 Fishie Fingers (courtesy of the Nurture Geist School in the Philippines) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zd1uFBQc_l8N3mjltz9TfoR5VcY94dfL/view?fbclid=IwAR0YUkfdlOLZfzkKcob-VrgZbaxdgMlTbBcnkEZ4PVVtIMBvOtRtLWqTs2k

Resilience Tales for Older Children, Teens and Adults

The Artists Palette - a story written to address the following question - ‘How to stop the seeds of hatred from multiplying?’ It is included in a collection of therapeutic stories translated into Ukrainian to Internally Displaced Persons in Chernivsti, Ukraine - for the English copy click here

'The Flowered Kimono ' - a modern fairy tale to strengthen and give hope - written for the Japanese publication by Tokyo Shoseki entitled ‘Stories to Grow Hearts’ - click here

For the Mandarin version of the Flowered Kimono 绣花的和服 click here

For the Portuguese version of the Flowered Kimono, click here

For the Romanian version of the Flowered Kimono, click here

'Lindelwe's Song', a story about the healing power of singing - click here

Stories for the Bushfire Crisis:

For a copy of ‘The Golden Nest Builders’ (a story about birds having to rebuild nests after an environmental disaster that destroyed their trees), click here

For a copy of ‘The Rabbits and the Bushfire’, a story written for a four-year-old to help soothe anxiety after a fire experience, click here

Selection of Other Therapeutic Stories from my Collections:

For a copy of 'Two Homes for Sparkle', a story for a 3-5 year old with separated parents, click here

For a copy of 'The Circle Friends', a story for an 8 year old being bullied/dominated by her friends click here

For a copy of  'THE CUP TOWER', a story for an 8 year old girl with recently separated parents (written by Petra Kapovic Vidmar, Croatia, 2016), click here