Mae Bloom

Mae Bloom writes picture books for the hardest three minutes of a parent's day.

The Lumi the Feelings Buddy series follows a small glowing creature who meets one big feeling at a time - a tantrum, a worry, a goodbye, a first day of something scary - and learns a simple ritual to move through it. Every book is short enough to read at bedtime and simple enough for a child to remember in the middle of a meltdown.

There are twenty books in the series, written for children ages 3 to 5 and for the grown-ups helping them glow.