The Little Lights of Lantern Hollow · Book Two

Ruby’s Big Feelings

the Breathe. book Ages 3–7

For: Meltdowns & big feelings

Ruby is the warmest Light in the Hollow — when she’s happy, you can warm your hands on her. She also has the biggest temper. On the morning she finishes the tallest tower she’s ever built, the littlest Light knocks it down, and Ruby’s light flares white-hot. A warm story about the moment a feeling grows too big to hold, and the one breath that comes before the flare. Ruby doesn’t learn to feel less — she feels everything, always. She learns the pause.

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What it’s for

For tantrums, white-hot anger, and feelings that grow too big to hold — and the hard moment right after, when a child has to face what the feeling did.

The word it leaves

Every Little Light gives your child one small word to keep. This one is

“Breathe.”

one big breath, together

You don’t have to teach it. The story hands it over, and children carry it out on their own — into the dark, the meltdown, the moment they need it.

Tucked in the back, like a gift

“A gentle answer turns away anger.”

Proverbs 15:1

One verse per book — never a billboard. A Christian family finds it and feels fed; every other family reads a beautiful story and never feels preached at.

A warm heart is a gift. It was always meant to warm — not to burn.

Part of the series