Every feeling is a path.
Books, coloring books and small films about big childhood feelings — told through gentle myth, for children four to twelve.
The idea
Anger, fear, sadness, shyness — each one has turns, dead ends and a way through. A child does not need to be told to calm down. A child needs someone walking beside them, naming the turns. In the centre waits something warm: being understood.
And the Minotaur is not the monster of this story. He is the gentle keeper of the labyrinth of feelings — a librarian, a grandfather, a reader of long books, who has met every feeling that ever came through his door and was never once frightened by one.
No behaviour charts, no clinical vocabulary. A story your child meets first, and something you can actually do tonight.
A storm cloud. A little shadow. A stubborn knot. Once a feeling has a name and a shape, it can be talked to.
Painted illustration, real paper, serif type. Books meant to be kept on a shelf, not scrolled past.
Anger is a labyrinth. This book is the thread.The Minotaurakia method
Inside the books
Every chapter of Little Heroes, Big Feelings opens on a medallion — a small engraved scene where a parent and a child meet one myth: the hydra that grows two heads for every one you cut off, the Trojan horse, Pandora's jar, the phoenix in the ashes.
The shelf
The Mythological Mirror Method — for parents of children 6–12
Twelve ancient myths, twelve modern feelings, and a nightly fifteen-minute quest that turns a hard evening into a story you both survive. Herakles for anger. The labyrinth for overwhelm. Icarus for the child who flies too close to the sun.
A cozy coloring book of emotions, with mazes
Twenty gentle scenes to colour with the Minotaur and Lumi the little spark — and four circular labyrinths that wind all the way to the heart in the middle. Big lines, simple shapes, one picture per page.
A bold & easy coloring book
Thirty-two warm little scenes from inside the labyrinth library — cocoa, candles, blanket forts, a snail with a tower of pebbles — plus eight affirmation pages to colour and keep.
A bold & easy coloring book
Rainy windows, glowing candles, apple baskets, a warm library and a heart-shaped autumn maze — a gentle season of slowing down and letting go.
A gentle first-day coloring adventure
Pack a backpack, meet the kind Minotaur teacher, explore the library, make art, pick apples and find the way home through four illustrated mazes.
A bold & easy winter coloring book
Lanterns glow along snowy paths, the library tree is going up, cocoa waits by the fire, and even the smallest snail has found a warm holiday scarf.
Beyond the shelf
The first book stayed inside the walls of the family. This one follows your child out — to the playground, the group project, the first friend who was, and then wasn't.
Five short films where a feeling arrives in the library with a small strange body — and someone learns to sit beside it.
A tiny new path on every visit. Guide Lumi toward the warm heart — no timer, no score to beat, just one gentle turn at a time.
On screen
A season of five short films. In each one a feeling arrives in the library wearing a small strange body — and Lumi, the little spark, gets it wrong first. Then the Minotaur shows him what the feeling actually needed. In English and Russian.
A little story game
Lumi, the little golden spark, meets a feeling in the labyrinth-library and makes the wrong move. The Minotaur, keeper of the labyrinth of feelings, shows that every feeling is a path. Two chapters to walk: the Little Storm Cloud and the Little Shadow.
Click the game to begin. Esc brings you back to the chapters.
Pixel art made with PixelLab.
The centre
Every path leads home.
New books, new colouring pages and new little films arrive a few times a year. If you would like to know when — that is what the letters are for.