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Cover of How to Stop: a pink stitched rabbit and a small round moss creature lie side by side in the grass on a hillside, looking up at a cloud shaped like a roller skate.

Picture book · ages 4 to 8

How to Stop

Tanglewood rolls down a hill and will not get up, and every kind of help Neon has is the fast kind.

A picture book about how staying still for somebody is the hardest thing she can give.

  • Ages 4 to 8
  • Twenty-four pages, printed in full colour, edge to edge
  • Read aloud in about four minutes
  • Large 8.5 × 8.5 inch pages, glossy cover
  • Nobody in it is hurried to get up
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Out 17 November 2026. Leave your email below and I’ll tell you the day it lands.

Look inside

Two pages from the book

Page from How to Stop: Neon comes down a grassy hill in four stages, a jump, a roll, a slide and standing tall with her arms up. The text reads, So Neon shows how. Tuck. Roll. Slide. Up again. Easy.
page 10
Page from How to Stop: Tanglewood lies propped on one arm in the grass, watching. The text reads, Tanglewood watches the whole show. Not yet. Okay.
page 11
Cover of Rewind Hollow Stories, Collection One: a pink stitched rabbit skates fast across a grassy hill holding a long purple ribbon, while a rag doll and a small moss creature fly behind her on it, laughing.
Next in the seriesCollection One
Line art page from Little Rewind: Hollow Belle in an attic doorway holding a lit candle, uncoloured and ready for markers.

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Four pages to colour together

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