Rising Tide
Dickson, Sarina
Cooper,Jenny (illustrator)
Notes
Author's BioSarina Dickson (B.Ed, Grad Dip Tch & Lng ) has worked alongside families and children with emotional and behavioural special needs in both the UK, USA and NZ as a classroom teacher, mentor and advocate since graduating in 1999. She has worked in the Family Violence field with adults and children in assessing needs, co-ordinating services and developing programmes. Sarina is a Teacher Notes Author for Scholastic, NZ and a tutor at Christchurch's School For Young Writers. She wrote 'Wishes and Worries' in 2015. Julie Burgess-Manning (PGDip PP, MSc (FamTher), PG CertED, BA Hons (Psych)) is a Family Therapist and NZ Registered Psychologist who has studied and practiced in the UK and throughout New Zealand. She has worked in a variety of child, adolescent and family mental health settings for the past 18 years, with roles such as Senior Clinician, Therapist, Clinical Supervisor and Primary Mental Healthcare Liaison. Julie has worked as a lecturer for Otago University since 2002, currently convening the Family Therapy Post grad Certificate. She wrote 'Maia & the Worry Bug' in 2015.
Additional Notes
Rising Tide' is an engaging junior fiction self-help text that follows Ari through a series of challenging events and resolution. The book includes peer reviewed therapeutic lesson plans and family exercises. A web based version is also available with audio in English and Te Reo which includes professional development for teachers, further support resources for families and notes for therapists.my notes
After struggling to find a home, the Rising Tide mural is complete, just in time for the books of the same name to begin rolling out to Canterbury schools in the first term.Following the success of Maia and the Worry Bug and Wishes and Worries, books aimed at helping children deal with post-quake anxiety, Rising Tide was the third in the series, aimed at eight to 12 year olds.
Authors Sarina Dickson and Julie Burgess-Manning of Kōtuku Creative, said the book would be "more subtle and less about the quakes" than the previous books, as the city had moved on in some regards and there was more "general anxiety around".
hey used their professional skill sets on both the story and on the anxiety fighting classroom and family exercises which feature in the book.
"Sarina's a teacher and I'm a psychologist, so we though that would work well together," Burgess-Manning said.
The mural was by Nottingham born artist Richard "Pops" Baker, whose art brightens many of the city's blank spaces and who has worked with Youth Justice and in care and protection.
It adorns a wall of the Sampan House restaurant on Gloucester St and is an enlarged version of the book's cover art by Jenny Cooper.
"I really wanted to balance it for people who might not read the book, balance it with the positivity of the quote," Baker said of the moody greys, blues and white of the image.
The quote comes from the end of the book's seventh chapter and Baker said he was drawn to it.
After being initially reluctant to use the quote, Burgess-Manning said the authors decided to let Baker include it, which Baker said "meant the world" to him.
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Building owner Denis Harwood fully supported the mural, saying it was a fantastic addition to the city.
Burgess-Manning said she cold called Harwood and asked; "how about it?"
His immediate interest took her as a pleasant surprise she said.
"I'm totally behind anything that improves the look of Christchurch, especially the CBD," Harwood said.
He said that although there would be a building in front of the mural in future, it would be visible for "quite some time yet".
Both authors said that in working on each book they had met "all sorts of cool people" in the city
"Before we worked with Pops, I'd never had anything to do with street art," Burgess-Manning said.
She said working together to create and learn something new was a rewarding aspect of their work.
| Location | edition | Bar Code | due date |
|---|---|---|---|
| P-R3 |
71362 | ||
| Non Fiction | 71363 |
| Genre: | Philosophy & Psychology |
| Dewey: | 152.4 |
| call #: | DIC |
| ISBN: | 0473368722 9780473368722 |
| pub: | 2016 |