Book of Beasties’ Mental Wellness Card Game has been awarded a much sought after accolade from Dr Amanda Gummer’s Good Toy Guide expert testers, to become as brand new mental wellness addition on the industry leading platform.  
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Following weeks of intense scrutiny from testers, which included adults and children, the multi-award winning resource was deemed to be “a great way to encourage children to talk about their mental wellbeing and express their own feelings.” 
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Dr Gummer, founder of the Good Play Guide, formerly Fundamentally Children, is the UK’s leading expert on all things toys, play and child development. She previously ran a research consultancy called FUNdamentals before combining this with the Good Toy Guide and the Good App Guide to create Fundamentally Children.

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This stamp of approval for Book of Beasties firstly solidifies The Mental Wellness Card Game as an impactful resource for parents and schools to promote a positive culture around wellbeing with their children. But secondly highlights the validity of the use of games, toys and play in mental health education.  
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Book of Beasties is an advocate of the use of play for children’s education due to its overall impact to child development, and to be recognised as a beneficial and recommended tool by such a reputable platform in the play space, further justifies this focus. 
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CEO and co-founder of Book of Beasties, said: “This is such a considerable achievement for our team and for playful mental health education as a whole. As it displays that this method of learning CAN be and IS impactful and greatly needed by the children that need it most.” 
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The review stated: ”Our testers found that the game got children talking and sharing their emotions and it also particularly helped one of the children with autism to work on his anxieties." (…)

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You can read the full review here: https://www.goodplayguide.com/toy/book-beasties-mental-wellness-card-game/ 
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