About Wildling Books

We created the books that we needed

We wanted to create a positive impact as a result of our experiences. So we started creating together. Through the journeys of Aroha, and then all of her friends, we hope our stories offer gentle, yet powerful examples of healthy emotional understanding and regulation to help instill valuable awareness your little wildlings will hold for life.

Our books normalise big feelings

  • Tools for empowering everyone

    Learn, question and explore, together. Our books include guidance to spark safe, meaningful conversations between caregiver and child about recognising and releasing emotions.

  • Mindful

    Written and illustrated with intention to guide curious minds through their feelings without judgement

  • All emotions are valid emotions

    Our stories help children understand that all emotions have a place and purpose, even the uncomfortable ones

At Wildling HQ, we have lots of laughs and try not to be too serious! We are a team of fun adults, with lots of little wildlings that help keep us on our toes and inspire us every single day.

AUTHOR

Bex Lipp

The work we do is very much inspired by my own difficultly processing emotions as a child (teen and young adult), and I truly want to help and make a positive change for the future generations. This isn’t about making kids weak and constantly focused on their emotions, it’s the opposite. Learning to understand our emotions and how to process them in healthy ways can mean our kids don’t have to carry harmful baggage through life. They can express themselves and move forward, not holding onto pain and hurt. They can understand why emotions bubble to the surface and look into the meaning of it. This work will empower them, create confidence and help them navigate this journey called life.

With a passion to bring awareness to the mental ..

AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR

Craig Phillips

Craig has worked as a professional illustrator for the US and Australian publishing industries for twenty years. His client list includes Random House, Scholastic, Simon and Schuster, Hachette, Hardie Grant, Bloomsbury, Oxford University Press and many more. His work has appeared in art anthologies such as The Society of Illustrators Annual, Spectrum Fantastic Art Annual and Luerzers 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide, and has been exhibited at the Museum of American Illustration. Phillips also worked on Neil Gaiman’s American Gods in 2017. His first solo work, titled Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts: Ten Tales from the Deep, Dark Woods (Allen and Unwin, 2017) won the NZ Book Award’s Russell Clark Award for Illustration, a Gold Ledger in the Australian Ledger Awards, a Notable Book in the CBCA Awards and was also a finalist in the Aurealis Awards.

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