For nurseries, schools and libraries
Gentle stories for the carpet, the book corner and the calm corner.
Mimi Maple's picture books are about the small, tricky feelings that fill an early years room — feeling wobbly, being gentle with someone smaller, falling out with a friend and finding the way back. If you would like them in your setting, this page is the quickest way to arrange it.
What Mimi can bring
Three ways to work together.
Story visits
A reading, questions and a making activity
Mimi reads one of the picture books to the group, answers the questions children always ask about how a book gets made, and leaves an activity behind — a feelings weather chart to colour, or a calm corner to build together.
Tell her the ages, the size of the group and the sort of morning you have in mind, and she will come back with what she can do and what it would cost.
Books for your setting
Sets for the book corner, or a class set of one title
Buy direct and the books come signed, with delivery included on the sets below. If you would rather have ten copies of one title for a whole class to take home, ask and Mimi will price it for you.
Everything is posted by Mimi herself, usually within three to five working days.
Free to use
Printables, glossaries and discussion guides
Every printable on this site is free for classroom use — no sign-up, no email address, nothing to join. Print as many copies as your setting needs.
The Begin Again teacher planner is free to download in full, too.
In the classroom
Books for the feelings that are hardest to name.
Each one was written around a moment early years staff will recognise straight away.
Sets and bulk orders
Signed, delivered, and easier than ordering them one at a time.
Delivery is included in every price below — one parcel, however many books are in it.
Book corner
Any three picture books
£24.99
£25.47 to £27.97 bought one at a time, with delivery
- Your choice of any three of the picture books
- Signed by Mimi, dedication if you would like one
- Delivery included
Tell Mimi which three when you enquire.
The lot
The complete set of six
£39.99
£49.44 bought one at a time, with delivery
- All five picture books and Little Moments of Calm
- Signed, with a dedication to your class if you like
- Delivery included
The simplest way to start a Mimi Maple shelf.
Class set
Ten or more of one title
10% off
Plus delivery included, however many
- For a book every child takes home
- Signed, and dedicated if you would like
- Priced to order — just ask
Mimi will confirm the total and the date before anything is paid.
Free for your classroom
Print as many as you need.
No sign-up and no email address. These are yours to use, copy and send home.
- Begin Again teacher agenda the whole planner — weekly pages, PPA, timetables, progress notes
- Feelings weather chart colouring sheet for naming how today feels
- My calm corner an activity for building a quiet space in the room
- Balloonie and Bamboo glossary the trickier words, explained for little readers
- Ballet with Balloonie activities movement and discussion ideas after the story
- Write a letter and an invitation early writing, with a reason to write
- Reply to an invitation the follow-on sheet
- Little Adventures to Colour a whole colouring book, free
On the whiteboard
All of it works in a browser, and none of it needs an account.
No sign-up, no email address, no password to remember at half past eight on a Monday. Open the page and it works.
Ready for the carpet
Activities to put on the big screen
- What is your feeling weather? — naming how today feels
- Breathe with Balloonie — a minute of calm before a tricky lesson
- Build your calm corner — plan the quiet space together
- Pick a kindness challenge — one small thing to try today
- Story memory match and Balloonie's Balloon Pop — for the last ten minutes of a Friday
Ready for the printer
Colour on screen or on paper
Colour with Mimi fills the pictures in on the whiteboard with a finger or a mouse — useful when there is no time to print. The same pictures download as PDFs if you would rather have them on the table.
Print as many copies as your setting needs. They are free for classroom use, and there is nothing to ask permission for.
Safe for school
Nothing is collected about the children
No accounts, no logins, no email addresses, and nothing a child does here leaves the device. Stickers and the story passport are remembered by that browser alone, and clearing the browser clears them.
So it works on a locked-down school network, and there is nothing for a safeguarding lead to sign off.
Ask Mimi
Tell her what your setting needs.
A few lines is plenty. Whether it is a visit, a set of books, a class set or an invoice you need, Mimi reads every message herself and replies.
Prefer email? mimimaplebooks@outlook.com
Pressing Send opens your own email app with the message already written out, so it goes from your address straight to Mimi’s.