Big Bright Feelings: Tilda Tries Again

What’s it about?

The story.

Tilda finds change very hard. When something new happens, a different routine, an unexpected shift, anything that moves the world around her, her world literally turns upside down. The pages rotate; text appears at angles; the illustrations show Tilda navigating a world gone strange, trying to find her way back to solid ground. Tom Percival uses the visual device more literally here than anywhere else in the Big Bright Feelings series: the upside-down world is not just a metaphor but an experience, and children who feel this way about change will find their experience depicted with precision. The recovery comes slowly, step by step, and the message is not that change becomes easy but that trying again is possible and worth it. A strong recommendation for children who struggle with transitions, new schools, house moves, changes in routine, and particularly for neurodivergent children for whom routine genuinely matters and disruption is not a mild inconvenience but a genuine difficulty. One of the series' most practically targeted books.