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Part story, part psychoeducation, Katie O'Donoghue's new book featuring riverside wildlife shows children the value of perseverance when dealing with life's challenges

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Children missed out on a lot during the Covid lockdowns and it’s taking a while to recoup the losses.

Working as an art psychotherapist, Katie O’Donoghue sees ample evidence of this. “As we were re-emerging [from lockdowns], trying to acclimatise again to the social aspect of life, I was having a lot of conversations with parents who very much felt their children were overwhelmed.”