SUMMER 2024-25
All Cats Are on the Autism Spectrum
By Kathy Hoopmann
This updated edition of the bestselling All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome provides an engaging, gentle introduction to autism. All-new cats take a playful look at the world of autism, and these fun feline friends will strike a chord with all those who are familiar with typical autistic traits, bringing to life common characteristics such as sensory sensitivities, social issues and communication difficulties. Touching, humorous and insightful, this book evokes all the joys and challenges of being on the autism spectrum, leaving the reader with a sense of the dignity, individuality and the potential of autistic people.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Author is from Australia
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Hardback
216 X 212 mm
80 Pages
COLOUR THROUGHOUT
Rel Date: September 2020
9781787754713
AUD$: 37.99
All Dogs Have ADHD
By Kathy Hoopmann
This delightful, revised edition of All Dogs Have ADHD takes an inspiring and affectionate look at Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). With all-new images from the canine world, it explores a variety of traits that will be instantly recognisable to those who are familiar with ADHD. Charming colour photographs of dogs bring to life familiar ADHD characteristics such as being restless and excitable, getting easily distracted, and acting on impulse. It combines humour with understanding to reflect the difficulties and joys of raising a child with ADHD and celebrates what it means to be considered different.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Author is from Australia
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Hardback
216 X 216 mm
80 Pages
COLOUR THROUGHOUT
Rel Date: August 2020
9781787756601
AUD$: 37.99
All Birds Have Anxiety
By Kathy Hoopmann
Life as a bird can be stressful! From worrying about airplanes, windows, and getting enough worms to eat, it is clear that birds can be anxious beings. Through a light-touch, quizzical depiction of bird behaviour, All Birds Have Anxiety uses colourful images and astute explanations to explore with gentle humour what it means to live with anxiety day-to-day, and how to begin to deal with it. Following the style of the bestselling All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome and All Dogs Have ADHD, wonderful colour photographs express the complex and difficult ideas related to anxiety disorder in an easy-to-understand way. This simple yet profound book validates the deeper everyday experiences of anxiety, provides an empathic understanding of the many symptoms associated with anxiety, and offers compassionate suggestions for change.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Author is from Australia
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Hardback
218 X 214 mm
72 Pages
COLOUR THROUGHOUT Rel Date: May 2017
9781785921827
AUD$: 37.99
KATHY HOOPMANN
The Awesome Autistic Guide to Feelings and Emotions
Finding your Comfort Zone
By Yenn Purkis, Tanya Masterman
From anger and worry to sadness and joy, emotions can come in all shapes and sizes with some feeling really big and others feeling much smaller (or even feeling like nothing), this book explores why we experience certain emotions, what they mean and how we can find the ultimate autistic comfort zone!
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Authors are from Australia Age: 8+ Years
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
96 pages
Release Date: April 2024 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781839977381
AUD$: 42.99
The Awesome Autistic Guide to Being Proud
Feeling Good About Who You Are
The
Awesome
Autistic Guide to Other Humans
Relationships with Friends and Family
By Yenn Purkis, Tanya Masterman
Yenn, Tanya and a tiny meerkat called Min are here to help you find out everything you need to know about friendships, improving relationships with your family members, and how to deal with issues and arguments that can arise with the people in your life.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Authors are from Australia Age: 8+ Years
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm 96 pages
Release Date: April 2024 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781839977404
By Yenn Purkis, Tanya Masterman
From learning about the autistic community and who is a part of it, to finding like-minded friends and connecting with others, this book will give you everything you need to ask the question 'what does it mean to be me?' Learn alongside Min how the special things that make you YOU can also help find your own community.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Authors are from Australia Age: 8+ Years
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
Release Date: April 2024
96 pages
B&W THROUGHOUT
9781839977367 AUD$: 42.99
AUD$: 42.99
Autistic Go
Guide A Practical Handbook for Autistic Teens and Tweens
By Yenn Purkis, Tanya Masterman
This book explores what it feels like to be a young person on the autism spectrum and looks at all the brilliant things people on the autism spectrum can do. Full of insights about being awesome and autistic, this book celebrates the strengths of understanding the world in a different way.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Authors are from Australia Age: 8+ Years
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
228 X 152 mm
Release Date: June 2020
112 pages
B&W THROUGHOUT 9781787753167 AUD$: 42.99
The Red Beast 2/e
Helping Children on the Autism Spectrum to Cope with Angry Feelings
By K.I. Al-Ghani, Haitham Al-Ghani
Deep inside everyone, a red beast lies sleeping. When it is asleep, the red beast is quite small, but when it wakes up, it begins to grow and grow. This is the story of a red beast that was awakened.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Author is from Australia Age: 5+ Years
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Hardback
279 X 216 mm
40 pages
Release Date: August 2022 COLOUR THROUGHOUT
9781839972751 AUD$: 45.99
I am an Autistic Girl
A Book to Help Young Girls Discover and Celebrate Being Autistic
The Red Beast Anger Workbook
For All Children Who Want to Tame Their Red Beast Including Those on the Autism Spectrum
By Danuta BulhakPaterson, Teresa Ferguson
By simply, clearly and positively explaining the social differences associated with young autistic girls, this book will help autistic girls aged 5-11 to understand their diagnosis, recognise their unique strengths and celebrate their differences, and find ways of coping with difficulties. This positive, and celebratory book also contains helpful discussion points for parents and professionals to explore further with the girls in their care.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Author is from Australia Age: 5+ Years
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Hardback
210 X 210 mm
Release Date: February 2024
9781805011200
32 pages
COLOUR THROUGHOUT
AUD$: 42.99
By Kay Al-Ghani, Sue Larkey
This practical and interactive resource is full of activities that have been specifically designed to provide coping mechanisms to help children to manage their angry feelings and improve their overall emotional and sensory regulation.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Author is from Australia Age: 7+ Years
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
246 X 173 mm
128 pages
Release Date: August 2023 B&W THROUGHOUT 9781839974151 AUD$: 48.99
Kids' Guide to Staying Awesome and in Control
Simple Stuff to Help Children Regulate Their Emotions and Senses
By Lauren Brukner
From breathing exercises, pressure holds and finger pulls, to fidgets, noise-reducing headphones and gum, the book is brimming with fun stuff to help kids feel cool, calm and collected. They will learn how to label difficult feelings, choose the perfect strategies and tools to tackle them, and use these correctly whether at home or at school.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Age: 7+ Years
253 X 176 mm Hardback
Release Date: September 2014
9781849059978
112 pages
AUD$: 45.99
Why Do I Have To?
A Book for Children Who Find Themselves Frustrated by Everyday Rules
By Luisa Montaini-Klovdahl, Laurie Leventhal-Belfer
Looks at a set of everyday situations that provide challenges for children at home, with their friends, and at school. This is the ideal book for children who have difficulty coping with the expectations of daily living, as well as for their parents and the professionals who work with them.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL
244 X 172 mm
Release Date: September 2008
9781843108917
Paperback
80 pages
AUD$: 25.99
Panicosaurus
Managing Anxiety in Children including those with Asperger Syndrome
The Disappointment Dragon
Learning to cope with disappointment
By Haitham Al-Ghani, Kay Al-Ghani
The fun characters in this charming, fully illustrated storybook will help children to cope with, and discuss openly, their feelings of disappointment. There are many creative suggestions on how to banish the Disappointment Dragon and an introduction for adults explaining disappointment in children and how they can help.
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Hardback
280 X 224 mm
Release Date: February 2014
9781849054324
By Kay Al-Ghani, Haitham Al-Ghani
This fun, easy-to-read and fully illustrated storybook will inspire children who experience anxiety, and encourage them to banish their own Panicosauruses with help from Mabels strategies. Parents and carers will like the helpful introduction, explaining anxiety in children, and the list of techniques for lessening anxiety at the end of the book.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS Age: 5+ Years
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Hardback
283 X 218 mm
56 pages
Release Date: December 2012 COLOUR SECTION(S)
9781849053563 AUD$: 45.99
64 pages
COLOUR SECTION(S)
AUD$: 45.99
Spectrum Girl's Survival Guide
How to Grow Up Awesome and Autistic
By Siena Castellon
This essential go-to guide gives you all the advice and tools you’ll need to help you flourish and achieve what you want in life. Castellon uses her own experiences to provide you with the skills to overcome any challenge.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
216 X 138 mm
Release Date: May 2020
256 pages
B&W SECTION(S) 9781787751835 AUD$: 42.99
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Autism-Friendly Guide to Periods
By Robyn Steward
Written by autistic author Robyn Steward, this is a detailed guide for young people aged 9 to 16 on the basics of menstruation. Created in consultation with young people, an online survey and a group of medical professionals, this is a book that teaches all people about periods, which can be a scary and overwhelming issue.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Hardback
248 X 176 mm
96 pages
Release Date: June 2019 COLOUR THROUGHOUT
9781785923241
AUD$: 42.99
The Asperkid's (Secret) Book of Social Rules, 10th
Anniversary Edition
The Handbook of (Not-SoObvious) Neurotypical Social Guidelines for Autistic Teens
By Jennifer Cook
The 10th Anniversary Edition of The (Secret) Book of Social Rules reveals the essential secrets behind the baffling social codes surrounding making and keeping friends, dating, and catastrophic conversation pitfalls, with all-new content on social media and talking about neurodiversity. It's no wonder Jennifer's is the navigation tool tens of thousands of fans love!
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
288 pages
Release Date: August 2022 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781787758377 AUD$: 45.99
NEURODIVERSITY
Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum 2/e
Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age
By Sarah Hendrickx, Judith Gould
A cradle-to-grave guide to female autistic experience combining personal accounts with academic research, with chapters on childhood, education, employment, healthcare, gender identity and ageing.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
Release Date: April 2024
352 pages
B&W THROUGHOUT
9781805010692 AUD$: 51.99
We're All Neurodiverse
How to Build a NeurodiversityAffirming Future and Challenge Neuronormativity
By Sonny Jane Wise
This affirming and thoughtful guide outlines how and why we need to fundamentally shift our thinking about neurodivergent people. We need to accept differences rather than framing them as a problem, abnormality or disorder.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Author is from Australia
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
216 X 138 mm
208 pages
Release Date: November 2023 NOT ILLUSTRATED
9781839975783 AUD$: 45.99
Interoception and Regulation Teaching Skills of Body Awareness and Supporting Connection with Others
By Emma Goodall, Charlotte Brownlow
This practical and informative book demystifies interoception and provides tools to help boost interoceptive abilities. It summarises the latest research, explores how interoceptive difficulties can be identified, suggests strategies to manage feelings and emotions, and explains how to support individuals in 'tuning in' to themselves.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Authors are from Australia
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL
216 X 138 mm
Release Date: March 2022
9781787757288
Paperback
144 pages
AUD$: 45.99
Looking After your Autistic Self
A Personalized Self-Care Approach to Managing your Sensory and Emotional
Spectrum Women Walking to the Beat of Autism
By Niamh Garvey
Featuring strategies including 'quick calm plans' for managing triggers and lived-experience advice on understanding emotional regulation, coping with sensory overload and how to look after your senses during intimacy, this guide is here to ensure that you don't just survive adulthood, you thrive in it.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
Release Date: May 2023
256 pages
B&W THROUGHOUT
9781839975608 AUD$: 48.99
By Barb Cook, Michelle Garnett
Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand the experiences described from a clinician's perspective, and provide extensive recommendations.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Authors are from Australia
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL
228 X 152 mm Paperback
Release Date: October 2018
9781785924347
336 pages
AUD$: 51.99
A Different Way to Learn
Neurodiversity and SelfDirected Education
By Naomi Fisher
This comprehensive overview of self-directed learning is packed with ideas on how to implement it at home and includes interviews from parents of neurodivergent children on how you can make learning differently work for you and your child.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
Release Date: July 2023
9781839973635
224 pages
B&W THROUGHOUT
AUD$: 48.99
ADHD an A-Z
Figuring it Out Step by Step
By Leanne Maskell
The accessible A-Z format, covering everything from burnout and finances to time management and relationships, gives you the tips and confidence you need to reach your full potential. It empowers you to understand why ADHD brains work the way they do and how to harness your unique mind to think creatively and overcome any hurdle life throws at you.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
Release Date: March 2023
9781839973857
304 pages
B&W THROUGHOUT
AUD$: 42.99
ADHD Is Our Superpower
The Amazing Talents and Skills of Children with ADHD
ADHD Girls to Women From Invisibility, Emotional Dysregulation & Burn out to Self Knowledge
By Lotta Borg Skoglund
Family doctor, psychiatrist, and international ADHD expert Lotta Borg Skoglund combines years of experience in the treatment and assessment of ADHD with the powerful testimonies of the women she has encountered along the way, exploring issues such as hormonal changes, emotional regulation, organisation and concentration, relationships, work, and treatment.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
By Soli Lazarus, Adriana Camargo
An illustrated book to help children to understand their ADHD diagnosis in a positive light. Each character in the book focuses on a specific symptom of ADHD such as hyper-focus, sensory overwhelm, poor initiation and inattention. It also provides guidance for parents and teachers, with advice on how to support children at home and in the classroom.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
Release Date: August 2021
9781787757301
64 pages
COLOUR SECTION(S)
AUD$: 31.99
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback 216 X 138 mm
224 pages
Release Date: February 2024 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781805010548
AUD$: 42.99
The Teenage Girl's Guide to Living Well with ADHD
Improve Your Self-Esteem, SelfCare and Self Knowledge
By Sonia Ali
Learn how ADHD brains work, and tricky concepts like executive functioning. Quick chapter summaries let you pick which sections are most relevant to you right now, and the strategies and visuals are designed for ADHD brains and can be used with support from parents, mentors or teachers.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
160 pages
Release Date: March 2022 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781787757684
AUD$: 42.99
The Educator's Experience of Pathological Demand Avoidance
An Illustrated Guide to Pathological Demand Avoidance and Learning
By Eliza Fricker, Laura Kerbey
With an introduction to what PDA is followed by PDA tailored advice on how to connect with your student and create an autonomous, spontaneous environment that is personalised for you both, this guide is here to ensure that you and your PDA student thrive! Illustrated by the popular Eliza Fricker and packed with entertaining anecdotes throughout.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
216 X 138 mm 128 pages
Release Date: May 2023 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781839976964
AUD$: 45.99
The Family Experience of PDA
An Illustrated Guide to Pathological Demand Avoidance
The Panda on PDA A Children's Introduction to Pathological Demand Avoidance
By Gloria Dura-Vila, Rebecca Tatternorth
In this positive, gentle and PDA-friendly guide for young children, PDA is explained by a playful Panda who has PDA and is very proud of it. The Panda addresses the challenges and struggles of PDA honestly, but can also thrive and live a happy life in the right environment, when supported by others.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS Age: 3+ Years
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Hardback
216 X 213 mm 40 pages
Release Date: September 2022 COLOUR SECTION(S)
9781839970061 AUD$: 40.99
By Eliza Fricker
A light-hearted and digestible guide to being a PDA parent covering everything from tolerance levels, relationships and meltdowns to collaboration, flexibility, and self care to dip in and out as your schedule allows to help get to grips with this complex condition.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL
214 X 138 mm
Release Date: January 2022 Paperback
9781787756779 AUD$: 42.99
The Teacher's Introduction to Pathological Demand Avoidance
Essential
Strategies for the Classroom
By Clare Truman
This essential guide for working with PDA pupils outlines effective and practical ways that teachers and school staff can support these pupils, by endorsing a child-led approach to learning and assessment. The chapter summaries and simple activities listed throughout make this a useful tool for busy teaching staff working with PDA pupils.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL
229 X 152 mm
Release Date: October 2021
9781787754874
Paperback
176 pages
AUD$: 40.99
Super Shamlal Living and Learning with Pathological Demand Avoidance
By Kay Al-Ghani, Haitham Al-Ghani
This simple, illustrated storybook will help children aged 7-11 with PDA to recognise its features, and develop tools to support them. A helpful introduction for parents and carers explains how it feels to live with the panic attacks and general anxiety that are caused by living with PDA, and the appendices at the back provide useful strategies to be adopted at school and at home.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS Age: 5+ Years
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Hardback
222 X 284 mm 72 pages
Release Date: December 2019 COLOUR SECTION(S)
45.99
Creative Ways to Help Children Manage BIG Feelings
A Therapist's Guide to Working with Preschool and Primary Children
By Fiona Zandt, Suzanne Barrett
This practical guide provides clinicians with a way in which to do so, with numerous games and imaginative activities to help children aged 4-12 to express and understand their feelings.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Authors are from Australia
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
Release Date: June 2017
66.99
By Ruth Fidler, Phil Christie
Meet Issy - an 11-year-old girl with pathological demand avoidance syndrome (PDA), a condition on the autism spectrum. Issy invites readers to learn about PDA from her perspective, helping them to understand how simple, everyday demands can cause her great anxiety and stress. This illustrated book is for readers aged 7 and upwards, and will be an excellent way to increase understanding about PDA
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL 226 X 152 mm Paperback
Release Date: March 2015
Helping Autistic Teens to Manage their Anxiety
Strategies and Worksheets using CBT, DBT, and ACT Skills
By Dr. Theresa Kidd
An accessible activity book for professionals and parents helping children on the autistic spectrum with their anxiety. Contains a wide-range of useful and effective worksheets as well as advice for treatment modification.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Author is from Australia
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback 279 X 216 mm 240 pages
Release Date: April 2022
THROUGHOUT
65.99
Low-Demand Parenting Dropping Demands, Restoring Calm, and Finding Connection with your Uniquely Wired Child
By Amanda Diekman
Full of practical resources and scripts that are easy to implement in busy everyday life, this book is your flashlight and your map to parenting your uniquely wired child. It will not tell you where to go, but it will help you find your way so you and your family thrive.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
216 X 138 mm
160 pages
Release Date: September 2023 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781839977688
AUD$: 42.99
Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors
Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work
By Robyn Gobbel
Robyn decodes the latest brain science into easy-to -understand principles and metaphors to help you become an expert in your child’s behavior. She reveals simple ways to help you regulate and connect with your child, with brain, body and sensorybased strategies to overcome day-to-day challenges
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
272 pages
Release Date: December 2023 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781839974281
TRAUMA/EDUCATION
Creating TraumaInformed, Strengthsbased Classrooms
Teacher Strategies for Nurturing Students' Healing, Growth, and Learning
By Tom Brunzell, Jacolyn Norrish
This accessible guide advises teachers on creating classroom environments that promote healing and growth for all students, particularly the most vulnerable. Grounded not only in traumainformed education but in positive psychology.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Author is from Australia
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
180 X 130 mm
Release Date: August 2021
9781787753747
AUD$: 48.99
The Continuum of Restorative Practices in Schools
An Instructional Training Manual for Practitioners
Paperback
256 pages
AUD$: 62.99
By Margaret Thorsborne, Dave Vinegrad
An instructional manual on restorative justice in schools from world-leading experts; this 'how to' guide offers guidance on the issues of carrying out restorative practices once they have been implemented in schools.
JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
Author is from Australia
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
297 X 210 mm
Release Date: March 2022
9781839970412
Paperback
224 pages
AUD$: 93.99
