TumbleStumble: About Happiness

Have you ever fallen over and started laughing before you even hit the ground?TumbleStumble has. Many times. He tumbles, he stumbles, he bumps into people and makes a mess of things, and he gets back up every single time. Somewhere in the middle of all that noise he works out what happy actually feels like. Not what he was told it should feel like. What it feels like in him.What does YOUR happy feel like?A read-aloud picture book about happiness, for children who move first and think later, and for the grown-ups who love them anyway.About the Stumble FamilyReady to stumble onto something unexpected?Every Stumble book opens with a Stumble who is wondering about something in life and has no idea what the answer is.Feelings included: being left out, making a mess of things, feeling lonely, being proud, making friends, being a bit too much. They poke at it, they turn it over, and make you wonder too. It runs in the family.Shall we find out together, they say. That is the invitation: first the story, then the questions. Some to think about, some to ask each other, and one wonderponder. Answer one, answer all, skip the lot, or ask a better one.The real invitation is to find out something about each other that neither of you went looking for.Thirteen Stumbles. Each one moves through the world in their own way, and each one has a story. Just like you. Just like whoever is holding the book.Ages 5 to 8, read out loud, together. Start with any of them.Kind. Curious. Real. Play first, always.First we stumble. Then we bloom.