Thinking of getting Easter gifts for your child? Want to avoid the chocolate and encourage your child to think. This could be the book for you to get for a child you know.

Questions are so important – they are how we learn to live our lives. That’s a Good Question! is a collection of 32 tricky questions which children commonly ask. Questions like Who made God? Where is heaven? Does God sleep? Were there dinosaurs on the ark?

J.John sets about answering these in a clear and concise manner. Of course, the answers to these important questions are complemented by a set of fantastic illustrations.

It is worth a look.

 Badger’s parting gifts.

At some point in our lives we will all experience the death of a loved one. Parents often ask about helping their children through grief. This is book is a tool to help with this. CHILD BEREAVEMENT UK has said that ‘Badger’s Parting Gifts provides young children with a means to understand grief’. It tells the tale of Badger.

Badger is so old that he knows he must soon die, so he does his best to prepare his friends. When he finally passes away, they are grief-stricken, but one by one they remember the special things he taught them during his life. By sharing their memories, they realise that although Badger is no longer with them physically, he lives on through his friends.

The 35th anniversary edition of this multi award-winning picture book about losing a loved one features a helpful reading guide from Child Bereavement UK that provides tips for reading Badger’s Parting Gifts with children and helping them better understand grief. It is worth having on your child’s bookshelf.

The Huge Bag of Worries

The world can be a worrying place and children can be anxious and have worries to. The Huge Bag of Worries is a reassuring picture book encouraging children to be open about their fears and anxieties to help manage their feelings.

The perfect book to soothe worries during stressful times. The story features Jenny. Wherever Jenny goes, her worries follow her – in a big blue bag. They are with her all the time – at school, at home, when she is watching TV and even in the bathroom! Jenny decides they must go, but who will help her get rid of them?  A funny and reassuring look at dealing with worries and anxiety, to be used as a springboard into important conversations with your child.

The Shack

A book for adults or teenagers

With 20 million copies sold worldwide The Shack is an international bestseller that explores life’s toughest questions through the gripping story of one man’s struggle to find answers to his suffering.

Mack’s youngest daughter, Missy, was abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, still trapped in his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack. Against his better judgement Mack arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon. What he finds there will change his life forever.

The Shack wrestles with the timeless question, ‘Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?’ Mack’s experiences when he faces up to his darkest nightmares will astound you, and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. This is the kind of book you’ll want to tell everyone about. Millions have discovered it already.