A Storybook for Adults and Other Children

Psychologist Jerri Curry's nine fairy-tale-style stories use talking animals to open conversations about anxiety, depression, grief, bullying, and self-esteem — topics that are genuinely difficult to broach directly, especially with younger clients or students. Each story includes reflection activities that extend its therapeutic usefulness, and an animated adaptation earned festival recognition in the education category. For mental health professionals and educators seeking narrative therapy tools, there is real value here. Faith-conservative families should know upfront that the book explicitly addresses identity and sexuality as one of its topics, which places it outside what many such families would consider suitable for unsupervised child reading. This is designed as a professionally facilitated resource, not independent bedtime reading. In the right clinical or educational context, it is a thoughtfully constructed tool; outside that context, preview carefully.