Zola Notices Everything
Six picture books for children whose senses run loud
Zola hears the fridge humming. She smells the rain before it arrives. She notices the colours the rest of us hurry past. Most days that noticing is a gift — and some days it is simply too much.
There is one book for each way the world can get to be a lot, and every one ends with a real, repeatable tool a child can use the same day. Ages 3–7.
Meet the six books Get the free cardsThe six books
Start with the book that matches the day your child is having.
Six free calm-down cards
Every tool in the series, on cards you can print, cut out and stick on the fridge.
Teachers, OTs and SLPs — please take the whole set.
What Zola's doing now
A small thing she noticed this week.
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Zola solved the sock problem
Speaking up
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Zola taught someone else the flower-and-candle breath
Passing it on
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Zola spotted the moon in the middle of the afternoon
Looking up
Who these are for
Sensory-sensitive, autistic, ADHD and highly sensitive children — and the grown-ups having the hard afternoon with them. They're read at home, in calm-down corners, in preschool and SEL classrooms, and by occupational and speech therapists who want a story that names sensory overwhelm without ever treating a child as a problem to be fixed.