This heart-warming and inclusive picture book introduces the concept of masking to young children - neurodivergent or otherwise.
Meet Minna. When Minna needs to feel brave, she wears a mask, when she meets new people, she wears a mask. On Minna''s first day at a new school, she realises she-s left her masks at home and starts to feel very nervous indeed. Things are too loud and too noisy - what if she says the wrong thing or does something silly? But when a classmate shows Minna the mask in his back pocket, she realises she-s not alone. Perhaps it is possible to be accepted - with or without a mask.
Masking is used by people to help them fit in or adjust to situations where they may otherwise feel insecure, or unsure. Through Minna-s story, readers will learn about masking as well as important lessons about empathy and compassion.
From Louise Gooding, author of Wonderfully Wired Brains, which was ''Highly Commended'' at The Wee
