Constance Luk’s little coconut helps kids express big feelings
Through ‘Coco The Floating Coconut’, the Penangite helps young readers recognise and talk about their emotions.
Constance Luk’s debut children’s picture book, “Coco The Floating Coconut,” aims to help young readers identify their emotions and communicate them to adults. The story follows a small coconut named Coco as it drifts through the sea, experiencing various emotions like worry, fear, loneliness, and uncertainty. By relating to Coco’s experiences, children may recognize their own feelings of fear, sadness, or anxiety.
Adults can gently ask, “Have you ever felt like Coco?” through the book’s vibrant illustrations, simple language, and familiar Malaysian expressions like “walau eh” and “alamak.” The book, launched in Penang, includes additional materials such as affirmation stickers, coloring pages, discussion questions for adults, and information on local mental health resources.
Constance, a mental health advocate and founder of the non-profit organization “People’s Health & Emotional Wellbeing (Phew!)”, hopes to release a series of 16 books, each set in a different Malaysian state or territory, to promote emotional wellbeing from an early age.
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