New Releases by Craig Phillips

A little girl’s imagination transports her through the world of nature, exploring the world as she wonders what it might be like to swim with dolphins, fly through the clouds and go on many more fantastic adventures. Read on to find out in this beautifully illustrated book.

Another stunning picture book with a new technique from the Wildling crew to help younger children find calm through the rollercoaster of emotion they can experience. Teaching children mindfulness through the senses at a young age can help them build confidence, learn to cope with stress and realise they can overcome challenging moments in their life. The fun 'Five, Four, Three, Two, One' rhyme is an easy way for children to remember to use their senses to find their way back to calm. "Another gem in the Wildling Books series, Finding My Calm is a must-have resource to top up your wellbeing toolkit. Empowering parents and teaching children ways to cope with their big feelings, this is a gorgeous book with a powerful and grounding message for our wee ones. As a mental health advocate and a māmā, one of my aims is to help children to identify emotions and learn ways to manage them; this book does just that." - Rebekah Ballagh, counsellor, author and illustrator, Journey to Wellness. Paperback Recommended age: 3-8 years

Aroha knows that nature is there for you and for me. Spending time out in nature makes her feel all kinds of wonderful emotions. Throughout Aroha Knows, Aroha and her friends experience our amazing world and this picture book explores how it can benefit our wellbeing. From the creators of bestselling Aroha's Way and Let It Go, Aroha Knows encourages children to feel connected to and find meaning in nature. With every copy of Aroha Knows sold, Wildling Books will donate 20c to Trees That Count helping Kiwis to plant more native trees. "We love how Aroha learns to appreciate the world around her through this beautiful story. It's our hope that, with every book helping to plant a native tree, many tamariki can learn to love and care for our precious environment." - Adele Fitzpatrick, CEO, Trees That Count At the back of the book join Aroha and her friends as they look at ways to become Guardians of the Earth. They look at planting trees, saving seeds, composting and more.

Come along on a journey with Aroha, as she wards off nervousness, fear, worrying thoughts and apprehension, with simple, yet effective tools that everyone can use.

TENTACLES! TERROR! TANTRUMS! After a mysterious stranger appears at The Crafty Trout, Jack Scratch and his friends find themselves entangled in an adventure of monstrous proportions. Narrowly escaping a boatload of murderous moggies, crashing cannonballs and a treacherous seabird, Jack and crew set a course for the most fearsome stretch of sea known to catkind, in search of the legendary... KRAKEN! AGES: 8 plus AUTHOR: Craig Phillips is a professional illustrator, working for publishers all around the world, from his studio by the shores of beautiful Lake Taupo, in New Zealand. He has created many book covers for popular children's and young adult books, as well as rock posters for bands such as Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, DJ Shadow and the Foo Fighters. Also by Craig Phillips 'Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts', a graphic anthology of world tales.

Jack, the pirate cat, sets off on a quest to find buried treasure.

A cobbler girl tricks the Wawel Dragon, after all the king's knights fail... The Polar Bear King loses his skin... Momotaro, born from a peach, defies the ogres everyone else is too scared to face... Snow White and Rose Red make friends with a bear... From Poland to Iceland, Japan to Germany, these ten fairytales from across the globe re-told as comics will have you enthralled. Giants! Trolls! Witches! Beasts! You will encounter them all in this visual cornucopia of a book. 'Magnificent storytelling...I can't remember when I have read classic fairytales that have been presented with more life, charm, and heart than in this wonderful book.' TED NAIFEH, Eisner-Award-nominated creator of the Courtney Crumrin series 'Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts is not only a collection of terrific tales from around the world; it is also a feast for the eyes.' CAROLE WILKINSON, bestselling author of the Dragonkeeper series

There are two classes of people in high school: those that DRIVE and those that DON'T. Three friends, Evan, Rodney, and Squash learn this the hard way in their first week at Rock City High. After losing his girlfriend to an upperclassmen with a nice ride, Evan thinks he's in for the worst two years of his life. But when he gets some sage advice from a wacky Driver's Ed teacher, he learns that a license to drive is not all it's cracked up to be. Now, Evan, Rodney, and Squash set out to create a bucket list and make their final years before driving the best years of their life. Little do they know, the hardest part might be finishing the first thing on the list.

This paper explores the implementation of a contemporary teaching pedagogy and the subsequent level of student engagement. Tertiary education of nurses is shifting from traditional pedagogical frameworks which are didactic in nature, to a paradigm which focuses on the student and not the academic. This shift in learning focus is as difficult for the student as it is for the academic, and challenges students to engage and faculty to withdraw. An opportunity to evaluate a core nursing strand course, for the purposes of program accreditation, within the second year of an undergraduate nursing degree at an Australian university, was a timely moment to obtain feedback from the students about the course and to assess the level of engagement. Anecdotal evidence from students suggesting poor levels of engagement and initial dissatisfaction with course content was confirmed from survey findings. The study suggests that as teaching frameworks change, universities need to focus on the student, with suitable orientation to support innovative teaching frameworks, rather than the process of course content and delivery, to influence favourable outcomes from learning environments that facilitate a higher level of student engagement.

In summer 2000 a new media phenomenon was born - Big Brother. Rivetting the viewing public and the media alike, it was watched by over 10 million people. The very first winner was Craig Phillips, the endearing Liverpudlian 'chippie with a heart of gold'. He emerged from the big Brother house with 3.7 million votes and promptly gave his entire £70,000 winnings to a friend with Downs Syndrome. Craig already had an established and successful construction business and after leaving Big Brother went on to combine this with his new-found media savvy to forge a brilliant career spanning both worlds. He went on to present and produce shows for BBC, ITV and Discovery Channel, as well as making guest appearances on some of the most popular shows on TV including The Weakest Link, Bo! Selecta, and Children in Need. Alongside this he has set up a skills centre to train young people. He gives inspirational talks to schools and universities and has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for numerous charities. Not bad for a dyslexic working class boy from a deprived area of Liverpool. Craig's is the ultimate story of triumph over adversity. But it could have been so different...

For fans of reality TV, this is the inspirational life story of the first winner of the groundbreaking "Big Brother" TV series. Today, Craig raises thousands of pounds for charities and continues in TV with "60-Minute Makeover." Not bad for a dyslexic, working-class boy from Liverpool.