Your child feels things enormously.
This book was written for them.

A hand-illustrated chapter novel about a child who discovers that every feeling — even the hardest ones — is a messenger trying to help. For readers aged 6–12. And every adult who loves them.

You know the moment. A feeling arrives in your child — big, sudden, overwhelming — and you reach for something to say. Something that helps. Something that does not dismiss what they are feeling or make it worse.

Most of the time, nothing comes. No matter how deeply you care, there's just a gap in the place where the answer might exist when you search your brain for the instruction manuel on these parenting moments, bcause you were never given a language for it either.

The Ember Compass gives children that language. Through story, through magic, through a birthday that falls spectacularly apart and a compass buried under an oak tree that asks questions instead of giving directions.

Casey meets a grey cloud named Opey — who turns out to be Disappointment, trying very hard to explain himself. A golden flame named Tuey. A swirl of colours named Dap. And slowly, unexpectedly, Casey learns something that changes everything: feelings do not show up to ruin things. They show up because something important is happening inside.

Written by a PhD researcher who is also the mother of three deeply feeling boys. Every illustration drawn by her hand in graphite pencil.

Every copy is signed by the author. Every order includes a handwritten note — tell us who to write it to at checkout.

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