Welcome to a life filled with Loving Hearts!

This book has a simple yet very powerful message.

Raising  children and helping them to manage themselves emotionally is a challenging and complex task. Understanding our “Grumps” and fostering positive perspectives is imperative to developing compassionate life skills and developing a strong moral character. This book helps parents, teachers, and caregivers empower children by showing them that they control their thoughts, words, emotions, and actions through their choices. The Grumps can help you and your child live a life filled with love and joy!

Synopsis: Everybody gets the Grumps, but you don’t have to keep them. The Grumps and Loving Hearts characters create a game-changing opportunity for you and your child to explore personal experiences, choices, and consequences. They intuitively teach readers how choices involving our thoughts, feelings, words, and actions create the lives we live.

A recent review from a reader on Indigo:

“A Little Book with a Big Message! Straight-forward text and dynamic illustrations make this book entertaining and accessible. A great tool for sparking discussion about impulses and reactions. The bottom line message is that everyone has bad moods, but we can still choose to promote kindness, acceptance and understanding. I can see myself going back to it again and again whenever my kids or I have a rough day!”

— J. Law

An educator says...

“Bravo, Ms. Hillick! The story and pictures come together to help young readers consider their friendships and the importance of taking care of each other. All of which comes from Paula’s passion and commitment as a parent, an educator and an author.”

— Larry Swartz, instructor, teacher education program, Ontario Studies in Education (OSIE), University of Toronto

Think, care, share and help your child live a life full of love and joy!

A best-selling author says...

“The Grumps was written and beautifully illustrated for children, however its message is one to be embraced by young and old alike—a loving attitude has the power to change our lives and our world. Paula Hillick’s wonderful book will inspire you to do both.”

— Michael J. Chase, bestselling
Hay House author and founder
of The Kindness Center