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The Lost Heart Stone

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Join Gizmo the dragon on this magical adventure through the Elfland woods and learn all about the importance of kindess, teamwork, friendship and forgiveness.

 

The Lost Heart Stone is a brand new rhyming adventure story for children aged 4-7. It’s the second story in the Elfland series and a prequel to The Lost Wish.

 

This inspiring children’s fantasy story conveys important wellbeing messages and weaves a thread of kindness, friendship and forgiveness. It’s perfect for encouraging relaxing bedtimes and ideally structured for read out loud.

Your Woodland Adventure Awaits In

The Lost Heart Stone

Join Gizmo the dragon on this magical adventure through the Elfland woods and learn all about the importance of kindess, teamwork, friendship and forgiveness.

 

 

The Lost Heart Stone is a brand new rhyming adventure story for children aged 4-7. It’s the second story in the Elfland series and a prequel to The Lost Wish.

 

This inspiring children’s fantasy story conveys important wellbeing messages and weaves a thread of kindness, friendship and forgiveness. It’s perfect for encouraging relaxing bedtimes and ideally structured for read out loud.

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Free Activity Downloads

Let your creativity run free and your imagination go wild with our free downloadable activity resources for kids.

Add life and colour to The Lost Wish inspired design, discover mindful colouring in sheets, draw your own spirit elf design plus, access lots of fun and creative free downloadable activity sheets over on our activity page.

These have all been purposefully created to help children relax, focus and to be more present and aware in the moment.
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The People Behind The Magic

Meet The Authors

Clare Anderson

The Lost Wish is the vision of Clare Anderson, Founder of Sensory Retreats. Clare has been in the beauty industry for over 30 years and is a passionate advocate of the importance of complete wellbeing for mind, body and soul.

Sensory Retreats is the multi-award winning wellness brand, home to the self-heating eye mask range, featured on ITV This Morning and winner of a coveted 2022 ASOS Beauty award. It retails a collection of holistic wellbeing products and is driven by a passion to deliver multi-sensory, self-curated experiences, with relaxation at their core.

Clare’s ultimate wish is that children, alongside their parents, will be encouraged to not just sit down and read together but to reconnect with the world around them. She envisioned the Lost Wish as an enchanting and magical place where creativity and imagination could run wild and free and where.

Interwoven throughout The Lost Wish are positive affirmations and storytelling techniques designed to encourage kindness, mindfulness, resilience and independence. The book also reinforces the importance of self-belief, something which Clare believes is a powerful and necessary tool to succeed in business, and life.

Simeon Crowther

Simeon Crowther

Simeon Crowther is a former communications director, rugby coach and primary school teacher. During his 13 year teaching career, Simeon was a subject and curriculum leader in Science and PE, and taught in a range of different primary school settings. He is now an editor, copywriter and communications consultant working in education and sport.

In the latter stages of his teaching career, Sim was increasingly concerned with issues around children’s physical and mental health. The Lost Wish book project was of particular interest with its powerful thread of wellbeing messages and its focus on the important qualities of empathy, kindness, and courage.

Sim has read thousands of texts to many hundreds of children and knows the power of a great story to fire the imagination, inspire play or encourage calm reflection.

We are hugely grateful for his insight, counsel and advice in the early stages of our journey and for his edits to the first manuscript of The Lost Wish.
Emma Kurran

Emma Kurran

Emma L. Kurran is a freelance illustrator. She originally trained as a 3D Character Animator with a background in fine art and theatre studies, before moving on to work as a Technical Animator in Visual Effects. Her film credits include Guardians of the Galaxy, Exodus: Of Gods and Kings and The Jungle Book.

Emma left the world of film production to become a freelance animator and illustrator, working on projects in advertising and retail, in addition to selling her own artwork.

As a keen reader herself, Emma leapt at the opportunity to illustrate a children’s book. Emma describes the project so far as being a whirlwind of activity, but the wellbeing message of The Lost Wish is something that is constant and integral throughout its production and this resonates deeply with Emma on a personal level.

Emma regularly participates in autism research and gives a yearly lecture at King’s College London on her personal experience of life as an autistic woman.

We’re delighted to have her on board, bringing the wonderful imaginary characters of The Lost Wish to colourful life with her detailed illustrations.
Natalie Samuel

Natalie Samuel

Natalie Samuel is an experienced Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist and the Founder of HelloHypnotherapy and NS Therapies. Her HelloHypnotherapy nighttime enlightenment downloadable audios, specifically designed to relax the mind and unwind the body before sleep, were an obvious complimentary element to add to the portfolio of Sensory Retreats self-heating eye mask range.

Natalie genuinely cares for each client she works with and enjoys the privilege of accompanying clients on their journey of self-discovery and healing.

Adopting a pluralistic approach to her work, Natalie uses a range of approaches (Person centred, Psychodynamic, CBT, ACT, hypnotherapy, mindfulness and Gestalt) to tailor the best course of treatment for the client. She works with adults and young people through individual and group workshop sessions in schools and privately to build life skills and heal past traumas.

Natalie is a key contributor to the wellbeing ethos behind The Lost Wish, having developed a bespoke Sleepy Elf meditation to accompany the story and the brands Elf Eyes self-heating sleep mask for children.

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