Every feeling is a path.
For the evenings when a feeling is bigger than your child. A book for parents, coloring books for small hands.
On Amazon. A parents' book for ages 6–12, coloring books for ages 4–8.
New for October
A friendly ghost, pumpkins and lanterns in the Minotaur's library. Nothing scary, only cozy. Twelve scenes to color and four mazes, for ages 4–8.
The idea
Anger, fear, sadness, shyness: each one has turns, dead ends and a way through. Telling a child to calm down rarely works. Walking beside them and naming the turns does. In the middle waits something warm: being understood.
Your guide is the Minotaur, the gentle keeper of the labyrinth. He is a grandfather and a librarian who has met every feeling that ever came through his door, and was never once frightened by one.
A story your child meets first, then one small thing you can do tonight. No behavior charts, no clinical vocabulary.
A storm cloud. A little shadow. A stubborn knot. Once a feeling has a name and a shape, it can be talked to.
Painted illustration and real paper. In the coloring books every picture has a blank back, so markers never spoil the next page.
The shelf
The Mythological Mirror Method, for parents of children 6–12
Twelve ancient myths, twelve modern feelings, and a nightly fifteen-minute quest that turns a hard evening into a story you both survive. Herakles for anger. The labyrinth for overwhelm. Icarus for the child who flies too close to the sun.
A cozy coloring book of emotions, with mazes
Twenty gentle scenes to color with the Minotaur and Lumi the little spark, and four circular labyrinths that wind all the way to the heart in the middle. Big lines, simple shapes, one picture per page.
A bold & easy coloring book
Thirty-two warm little scenes from inside the labyrinth library: cocoa, candles, blanket forts, a snail with a tower of pebbles. Plus eight affirmation pages to color and keep.
A bold & easy coloring book
Rainy windows, glowing candles, apple baskets, a warm library and a heart-shaped autumn maze. A gentle season of slowing down and letting go.
A gentle first-day coloring adventure
Pack a backpack, meet the kind Minotaur teacher, explore the library, make art, pick apples and find the way home through four illustrated mazes.
A bold & easy coloring book
A pumpkin patch, a costume room, cookies in the oven, a lantern walk and a friendly ghost in the library. Halloween with nothing to be afraid of, and four illustrated mazes to find the way home.
A bold & easy winter coloring book
Lanterns glow along snowy paths, the library tree is going up, cocoa waits by the fire, and even the smallest snail has found a warm holiday scarf.
Anger is a labyrinth. This book is the thread.Little Heroes, Big Feelings, for parents of children 6–12 Buy on Amazon
Look inside
Every chapter of Little Heroes, Big Feelings opens on a medallion: a small engraved scene where a parent and a child meet one myth: the hydra that grows two heads for every one you cut off, the Trojan horse, Pandora's jar, the phoenix in the ashes.
The coloring books are drawn with bold lines and simple shapes, one picture per sheet. These three pages are from Cozy Halloween in the Labyrinth.
New free pixel adventure
Step into four Greek myths with the Minotaur: Ariadne's thread, the Cyclops, Icarus and Penelope's loom. Every story ends with a riddle and a page for your child's Book of Myths.
Play the myths Four myths, about 30 minutes, for ages 6–12. Opens in a new tab, best on a computer or tablet.
On screen
Short films for the end of the day. In each one a feeling arrives in the library wearing a small strange body, and Lumi, the little spark, gets it wrong first. Then the Minotaur shows him what the feeling needed.
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A gentle bedtime story from the labyrinth library.
More films on YouTube
The first book stayed inside the walls of the family. The second follows your child out: to the playground, the group project, the first friend who was, and then wasn't.
Every path leads home.
If your evenings are hard right now, begin with Little Heroes, Big Feelings. If your child would rather color than talk, begin with Cozy Feelings.