★ From Ludmila Petranovskaya—million-copy bestselling author and winner of the Russian Presidential Award in Education.
★ Twenty years of family counselling distilled into copy-and-paste answers, trace-the-doodle breathing cards, and pocket-size “help signals” that fit inside a pencil case.
★ Zero lectures—100 % tools: one sentence to repeat, one picture to copy, one exercise to calm down.
★ Bright, witty artwork turns anxiety into a dandelion you can blow away instead of a stone on your chest.
★ Includes “instant-rescue” pages for parents—three-line scripts to catch a child’s feelings, five-minute tactics so support stops at “go for it”.
★ By the last page kids realise problems don’t vanish by magic—but they can shrink them step by step; parents breathe easier knowing help can be this concrete, this light.

Almost every child meets a storm the moment the school gate swings open: mockery, failed tests, eating lunch alone. Statistics show one in three students faces bullying; thousands more lie awake over grades or friendships. Ludmila Petranovskaya—veteran psychologist and educator—turns those whispers of “I’m doomed” into fold-out, photocopiable tools. Readers learn the exact three-second breath before answering a teaser, the micro-goal sticky-note system for “impossible” homework, the single nod-and-smile sequence that starts a friendship. Cheerful, slightly ironic illustrations stand by like a private pep-talk. The book is also a parental first-aid kit: flip to the coloured edge, read three lines, know what to do instead of another helpless “cheer up”. Whether read together at bedtime or consulted behind a desk, it works like a portable counsellor—translating “no way” into “I’ve got a way” one page at a time.

Ludmila Petranovskaya

Psychologist, winner of the Russian Presidential Award in Education. Graduated in Philology from Tashkent University and in Family Systems Therapy from the Higher School of Economics. Author of the million-copy bestsellers “What to Do If…”, “Secret Support: Attachment in a Child’s Life”, “Difficult Children” and “Selfmama: Life Hacks for Working Mothers”. Her books are praised for turning academic psychology into practical, laugh-out-loud advice.