Tender seedlings, Wonky Feelings

A warm, illustrated rhyming story about neurodiversity, big feelings and the many different ways we experience the same world.

Through six memorable animal characters, Tender Seedlings, Wonky Feelings explores sensory sensitivities, emotional overwhelm and behaviours that can be difficult to understand from the outside. It gently encourages children and grown-ups to look beneath behaviour with curiosity rather than judgement.

Created from author and illustrator Jacs Waggett’s experience of raising a neurodivergent daughter, the book offers families a safe and accessible way to begin conversations about feelings, difference and compassion.

The illustrations were developed with Jacs’s daughter, helping to give a visual language to emotions that are not always easy to name or explain.

The book also includes access to a free downloadable companion guide, filled with thoughtful questions and activities to help parents, carers, teachers and other supportive adults continue the conversation.

What readers are saying

The book has received 18 five-star Amazon reviews. Parents have shared that they recognised not only their children in its characters, but parts of themselves too. One father found that it gave him more thoughtful emotional language to use with his autistic daughter, while a former teaching assistant described it as the kind of resource she wished she had been able to use in schools.

Readers have praised its gentle, non-judgemental approach and its value for families, teachers, therapists and coaches.

At its heart is one simple message: nobody is the problem, and everybody’s experience matters.

Written and illustrated by Jacs Waggett
40-page illustrated paperback