Maven & the Magic Buttons is the story book Mimi Stevens wrote to make life more fun and a whole lot easier for kids, parents, and educators!
Cleverly woven to engage curious minds, this nourishing story illustrates emotional intelligence beautifully, while empowering children to process and improve their own feelings, behavior and performance.
Here’s a sneak peak at some illustrations!
When Maven gets up on the wrong side of the bed, with too little sleep and fear of a math test, it all adds up to anxiety… and multiplies into a very unhappy morning.
At school, however, Glenda-the-Good-Nurse teaches Maven how to make her own tears, fears, pain and anxiety disappear, using her own nearly-magical powers!
After a few minutes of Belly Button Breathing and Tapping into happy, Maven is excited about her “Magic Buttons”… and her math test.
Self-confidence soars with this new-found ability to turn a painful morning into a sparkling day!
In the process of reading about Maven’s Magic Buttons, your child discovers their own Magic Buttons… and so do you!
*Illustrator Lee Lanier is also a painter, muralist, and author of 9 books on 3D animation & VFX.