A Welcome From Dr. Jenkins
Every big feeling deserves an honest language.
Meet the father, educator, and storyteller behind a collection built for children growing through new homes, new routines, changing relationships, and the questions adults do not always know how to answer.
Welcome to the Collection
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Stories. Activities. Conversations.
Not six separate products. One connected way to support childhood.
The stories help children recognize themselves in the moment. The Adventure Academies turn recognition into action—something to draw, build, test, practice, or lead. The Grown-Up Guide gives adults the language to meet those discoveries with honesty, steadiness, and care.
Stories
Children can feel.
Twenty-five illustrated stories make family change, belonging, courage, friendship, curiosity, and big emotions easier to recognize and discuss.
Activities
Children can explore.
Two developmentally distinct Adventure Academies move children from passive reading into active discovery—drawing, moving, building, deciding, problem-solving, and practicing who they are becoming.
Conversations
Grown-ups can guide.
The Grown-Up Guide offers scripts, prompts, story-by-story support, and a repeatable method for talking about change without making children carry adult weight.
The Story Library
Twenty-five stories children can feel.
Read one story at bedtime, choose one that matches the moment, or build a family rhythm across all three volumes. Every story makes room for warmth, wonder, honest questions, and steady love.
Volume One
Home, Heart & Wonder
Family life, feelings, curiosity, and belonging
Stories about life across more than one home, asking brave questions, listening closely, helping together, and discovering that love can remain steady while routines change.
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Volume Two
Courage, Confidence & Growing Together
New experiences, safe independence, and connection
From counting “nite-nites” to navigating busy places and discovering the stories behind the things we love, these adventures help children practice courage without rushing childhood.
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Volume Three
Family, Friends & Growing Up Confident
Identity, community, friendship, and joyful confidence
Stories that move outward into family traditions, friendships, community life, celebration, healthy pride, and the confidence children build when they know they belong.
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Where the stories end, discovery begins.
These are not filler worksheets or keepsake books destined to remain blank like the last baby book. Each Academy is a flexible learning journey that helps families turn ordinary time at home into purposeful play, meaningful conversation, and visible growth—without making home feel like another school day.
Ages 3–5
Little Explorers
Play, Color, Count & Grow
Little Explorers transforms early learning into a world children can touch, color, count, act out, and make their own. Short, inviting missions strengthen number sense, emotional vocabulary, observation, fine- and gross-motor coordination, everyday independence, and awareness of the people and places around them. Adults receive enough structure to guide the moment while children keep the freedom to point, move, imagine, repeat, or stop. It is a joyful first Academy experience built to make curiosity feel like competence.
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Ages 6–8
Growing Leaders
Create, Discover, Think & Dream
Growing Leaders invites children to think beyond the answer and begin shaping the idea. Design challenges, money decisions, curiosity labs, community missions, goal-setting, and future-dream exercises strengthen planning, persistence, communication, creative reasoning, and responsible choice-making. Children do more than complete pages: they explain their thinking, revise a plan, notice impact, and practice leading with both confidence and care. It is where imagination starts becoming agency.
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Big Little Conversations
The children have questions. Now grown-ups have a guide.
A practical family and educator companion for talking with children about divorce, transitions, changing routines, separation, repair, and big feelings—without forcing children to grow up too fast.
For Parents & Caregivers
Use clear scripts, reflection prompts, the NOTICE Conversation Method, and story-by-story guidance when your child needs honesty, reassurance, or help naming what has changed.
For Educators & Professionals
Support read-alouds, classroom conversations, counseling settings, family engagement, and transition-sensitive learning without diagnosing children or overstepping your role.
Big Little Conversations Printable Toolkit
Choose the moment. Print the tool.
Download the complete 49-page toolkit, choose one of six focused section packets, or open a section to select the exact sheet you need. Every page is formatted at 8.5 × 11 inches for clean home, classroom, library, counseling, or program printing.
Six sections • Forty-one individual tools • Print only what fits the moment
I Using the AcademyTools 01–08 • Presence, play, planning, and participation
Begin with presence, play, and a plan that fits real life.
Download This SectionII The NOTICE MethodTools 09–13 • Curiosity, clean questions, and useful next steps
Slow the moment down. Make room for the child’s view.
Download This SectionIII Family ToolsTools 14–24 • Feelings, routines, repair, trust, and growth
Use honest language, clear routines, and room to feel.
Download This SectionIV Educators & PartnersTools 25–34 • Reading, observation, communication, and shared plans
Share observations without blame and build one useful next step.
Download This SectionV Inclusion & SupportTools 35–37 • Access, dignity, adaptation, and added support
Adapt the method without lowering the child’s dignity.
Download This SectionVI Reflection & ReturnTools 38–41 • Adult growth, repair, commitment, and next steps
Notice what changed, repair what needs repair, and keep growing.
Download This SectionBring the Whole Ecosystem Home
Build your Big Little Library.
Choose the complete six-book ecosystem and give every part of the experience a role: stories that open the heart, activities that turn insight into practice, and grown-up guidance that helps the conversation continue after the page closes.
Complete Collection
Six books. One shared language.
Three illustrated story volumes help children feel seen. Two age-specific Adventure Academies help them explore, create, decide, and grow. The Grown-Up Guide helps the adults around them respond with language sturdy enough for real life. Together, they form a family library children can grow into—not simply read through.
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Signed Family Library
Create an heirloom family library with signed or personalized copies made for the child, milestone, or season that brought the collection into your home. More than a gift, it becomes a record of what your family chose to name, practice, protect, and remember together.
Explore Signed EditionsKai & King’s Learning Community Collections
One ecosystem. Many places children need support.
Curated collection configurations for homes, schools, libraries, counseling settings, after-school programs, and family-serving organizations. Select the setting; we help shape the right mix.
Home Reading Circle
A family-centered collection for shared reading, activity time, emotional check-ins, and conversations across changing routines.
Classroom Story & Activity Set
Multiple-copy story and Academy configurations for read-alouds, centers, family engagement, social-emotional learning, and guided extension activities.
Library Discovery Collection
A shelf-ready ecosystem for circulation, family programming, story time, caregiver resources, and community discovery.
Family Program Conversation Collection
Flexible sets for counseling, family resource centers, after-school programs, support groups, transition services, and facilitated conversations.
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