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Pip and the Scary Halloween Masks, a square paperback picture book showing Pip in his pumpkin costume in his bedroom, Teddy wearing a little wolf mask on the bed and a wolf shadow on the wall
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Pip and the Scary Halloween Masks.

A wolf mask can look like a real wolf when you are three. Big sister Hana teaches Pip a game that makes every mask a little less scary: Mask ON... Mask OFF! Still Papa! A not-scary Halloween story for ages 3 to 5, with a free grown-up kit. Paperback.

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The first goodbye is the hardest. Practice it together.

A research backed picture book that helps your 3 to 5 year old rehearse the first day of school before it arrives.

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The Beem Bunnies: Pip's First Day of School, a square paperback picture book showing Pip the bunny with his backpack outside a treehouse school

Every Beem Bunnies book follows Pip through one big childhood moment. Small to us. Enormous to them. Built on child development research, so you do not just read about the hard part. You practice it together, before it happens.

Pip sits on the burrow rug, tummy full of popcorn, with school starting soon

Pip's tummy is full of popcorn.

School starts soon, and everyone says it will be wonderful. Pip is not so sure. His tummy pops with a wobbly feeling that has two parts: a nervous part and an excited part.

Mama does not tell Pip to be brave. She shows him how. Together they build a special goodbye and practice it all week, so that when the real morning comes, it feels familiar.

Forehead. Words. Wave.

Boop.

The goodbye ritual at the heart of the book takes ten seconds and travels anywhere: the classroom door, Grandma's house, the babysitter's porch. It is small enough to remember on a hard morning, and it belongs to just the two of you.

Pip and Mama practice the special goodbye all week: forehead boop, magic words, wiggly wave

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Thirty-two pages, painted in soft crayon. Here are the first five, just the way the story opens.

One week before school, Pip's tummy feels full of popcorn
School starts soon, and Pip's tummy is full of popcorn.
Mama sees Pip's worried face and asks what is in that little heart of his
Mama sees his worried face.
Pip tells Mama his tummy feels wobbly and he does not want to go
"My tummy feels wobbly. I don't think I want to go."
Mama explains the wobbly feeling has two parts, a nervous part and an excited part
The wobbly feeling has two parts.
The next day Pip whispers to Hana, what if Mama doesn't come back
"Hana, what if Mama doesn't come back?"

Not just cute. Research backed.

The story is built on what the American Academy of Pediatrics says actually helps at drop-off: a predictable goodbye ritual, a return marker a child can understand, and practicing the goodbye before the real day. Plus one idea of our own: naming the two-part feeling.

  • Naming the feeling makes it talkable. Pip learns that nervous and excited live in the same place.
  • Predictable rituals give kids control. The goodbye has three steps they can count on.
  • Rehearsal beats reassurance. The week before school is practice, not pep talks.

Inside the book, a QR code brings you here for the full kit: the research in plain words, the scripts, and every printable, ready the same morning.

Mama tells Pip the wobbly feeling has two parts, a nervous part and an excited part
Inside every copy

The kit that comes with the book.

Five printable tools that turn the book into a first-week plan. They come with your copy, and you can unlock them here too.

Goodbye Ritual ChartBuild your own forehead-words-wave and hang it by the door.
First-Week TipsWhat to say at drop-off, and what to skip.
Settling-In GuideA week-by-week map of what settling in really looks like.
Talk-About-It QuestionsPage-by-page questions that open little hearts.
Read-Aloud TipsHow to read this book on a nervous morning.
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The Beem Bunnies Activities: A Halloween Coloring Book, a square paperback with Teddy the bear in a witch hat sitting in a jack-o-lantern under the moon
New for Halloween

Beem Bunnies Activities: A Halloween Coloring Book.

Forty cute, not scary pages of the bunnies in costume: pumpkin suits, friendly ghosts, a little witch with her broom, and a moonlit trick or treat down the lane. Big, simple lines built for little hands, ages 3 to 5. By M.C. Brightwood. Paperback.

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A peek inside

Coloring page: Pip in a jack-o-lantern costume with a candy basket
Pip's pumpkin suit
Coloring page: Pip and Teddy under bedsheet ghost costumes with candy on the ground
Two little ghosts
Coloring page: Hana in a witch hat with a broom and a bubbling cauldron
Hana's broom
Coloring page: Teddy the bear in a pumpkin costume and witch hat with bats and candy
Teddy dresses up
Coloring page: the bunny family out trick or treating with baskets and a pumpkin
Trick or treat
Coloring page: Kiki and Nini riding a wagon full of pumpkins under an autumn tree
The pumpkin wagon
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Pip's First Day of School is available now.

A gentle first day of school story for ages 3 to 5, in paperback on Amazon. The free printable kit for grown-ups is included in the book.

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