Deborah M. Plummer has over 30 years' experience of facilitating groups and working individually with both children and adults. Formerly a clinical lead therapist working within the NHS, she also has extensive experience as a senior lecturer in aspects of health psychology and counselling. She ran workshops and short courses on the uses of imagery, games and story-telling in the promotion of well-being. Deborah is now retired.

`The story provides a colourful and fantastical world through which children can be helped to explore and develop feelings of self-esteem; it does this through drawing on the experiences and emotions of the tortoise, the other characters and their interwoven lives.The book is intended for interactive use with young children aged from seven to ten by teachers, parents, carers and pro-fessionals working with children.Plummer provides an extremely practical and accessible way in which to explore and foster the development of self-esteem in children to be applied in a range of contexts, from the classroom to individual therapeutic work with children, and at varying levels of complexity.'

• Part One: Theoretical and Practical Background. 1. Introduction. 2. The Nature of Story-Telling. 3. The Nature of Healthy Self-Esteem. 4. Guidelines for Sharing the Story. Part Two: The Adventures of the Little Tin Tortoise. Part Three: Activity Sheets and Guidance Notes. Appendix A: Expansion topics relevant to National Curriculum guidelines for PHSE and citizenship. Appendix B: Explanation of drama strategies. Appendix C: Character drawings.

Deborah M. Plummer has over 30 years' experience of facilitating groups and working individually with both children and adults. Formerly a clinical lead therapist working within the NHS, she also has extensive experience as a senior lecturer in aspects of health psychology and counselling. She ran workshops and short courses on the uses of imagery, games and story-telling in the promotion of well-being. Deborah is now retired.

`The story provides a colourful and fantastical world through which children can be helped to explore and develop feelings of self-esteem; it does this through drawing on the experiences and emotions of the tortoise, the other characters and their interwoven lives.The book is intended for interactive use with young children aged from seven to ten by teachers, parents, carers and pro-fessionals working with children.Plummer provides an extremely practical and accessible way in which to explore and foster the development of self-esteem in children to be applied in a range of contexts, from the classroom to individual therapeutic work with children, and at varying levels of complexity.'

• Part One: Theoretical and Practical Background. 1. Introduction. 2. The Nature of Story-Telling. 3. The Nature of Healthy Self-Esteem. 4. Guidelines for Sharing the Story. Part Two: The Adventures of the Little Tin Tortoise. Part Three: Activity Sheets and Guidance Notes. Appendix A: Expansion topics relevant to National Curriculum guidelines for PHSE and citizenship. Appendix B: Explanation of drama strategies. Appendix C: Character drawings.

Deborah M. Plummer has over 30 years' experience of facilitating groups and working individually with both children and adults. Formerly a clinical lead therapist working within the NHS, she also has extensive experience as a senior lecturer in aspects of health psychology and counselling. She ran workshops and short courses on the uses of imagery, games and story-telling in the promotion of well-being. Deborah is now retired.

`The story provides a colourful and fantastical world through which children can be helped to explore and develop feelings of self-esteem; it does this through drawing on the experiences and emotions of the tortoise, the other characters and their interwoven lives.The book is intended for interactive use with young children aged from seven to ten by teachers, parents, carers and pro-fessionals working with children.Plummer provides an extremely practical and accessible way in which to explore and foster the development of self-esteem in children to be applied in a range of contexts, from the classroom to individual therapeutic work with children, and at varying levels of complexity.'

• Part One: Theoretical and Practical Background. 1. Introduction. 2. The Nature of Story-Telling. 3. The Nature of Healthy Self-Esteem. 4. Guidelines for Sharing the Story. Part Two: The Adventures of the Little Tin Tortoise. Part Three: Activity Sheets and Guidance Notes. Appendix A: Expansion topics relevant to National Curriculum guidelines for PHSE and citizenship. Appendix B: Explanation of drama strategies. Appendix C: Character drawings.