Whirly Twirly Me

By Manjeet Mann

A sensitive and reassuring picture book on understanding and handling big feelings from award-winning author Manjeet Mann

Some days are good days. Some days are bad days. And some days are whirly twirly days, where the strops have you in a flop and everything is TOO MUCH. But what if you weren’t just angry?

Written by award-winning author Manjeet Mann, this brilliant picture book helps young readers explore difficult feelings and identify their emotions.

Sensitively written and accompanied by beautiful artwork by Amanda Quartey, this book reassures little readers it’s normal to feel a lot of things at once and helps them to embrace their own whirly twirly days.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Release date: Aug 3, 2023
• ISBN: 9780008501150

Manjeet Mann

Manjeet Mann is a multi-award-winning children's author, actress, playwright and screenwriter. Her debut YA novel Run, Rebel was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2021 and won the CILIP Carnegie Shadowers Choice Award, The UKLA Award, Diverse Book Award and Sheffield Children's Book Award. It was also a Guardian best book of 2020. She adapted it for the stage in a production toured by Pilot Theatre in 2023.

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