Cloe Willetts

Websitehttp://www.thedizzywaggle.com
Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/cloe.willetts

Cloe Willetts is a children’s author, award-winning former journalist, content creator, and children's creative and life writing teacher. 

Under her company EQ Storytelling, Cloe specialises in storytelling that implements, teaches, and celebrates emotional literacy.

EQ Storytelling is publisher of Dizzy Waggle Books, a children's series that was created in Wellington, Aotearoa.

Using rhyme, creative characters, and engaging plots, the stories teach young readers about big feelings including anxiety, emotional regulation, loss and grief, and empathy. 

Genre:

  • Children's Fiction

Skills:

  • Freelance Writing
  • Ghost Writing
  • Mentoring
  • Print Media Writing (magazines/newspapers)
  • Readings
  • Website Content
  • Workshops (children/schools)

Branch:

Wellington

Location:

Kāpiti Coast

Publications:

The Dizzy Waggle Who Lit the Dark: a glowing tale about the power of big feelings

Meet Zozo, the adorable Dizzy Waggle changing the way the world understands deep feeling kids...

Zozo is a Dizzy Waggle with a heart so big it can light up the sky. When Zozo is happy, it glows bright like stardust. But when the fuzzy creature gets overwhelmed by big emotions like anxiety, life doesn't feel so easy.

When Zozo decides to hide away, it takes a dark storm to remind the spirally tailed Dizzy Waggle that authenticity, empathy, and sensitivity are powerful enough to change the world.

Join Zozo on a fun and uplifting journey of overcoming worry, anger and sadness, while unraveling the beauty of self-acceptance.

 

ISBN: 978 - 0 - 473 - 59066 - 6

Illustrated by Fabienne Joni Sopacua of FJS-Art & Design.

First edition: November 2022.
Second edition: October 2023.

Publisher: EQ Storytelling Ltd. 

Thea and the Dizzy Waggle: a heartwarming tale about loss and grief

Purple Dizzy Waggle Brite makes friends with a tūī bird named Thea, who can often be heard singing from her nest in a blossoming pohutukawa tree.

One day, Brite notices Thea isn't singing and learns the tūī is sick. When Thea tells Brite her body won't be here one day, the Dizzy Waggle has important questions about death.

"What did the tūī mean

about going away?

Aren’t those we love 

always meant to stay?

“But I’ll be sad if you leave me,” 

Brite said to the bird.

“I don’t want a world 

where your song isn’t heard.”

Thea and the Dizzy Waggle is heartwarming and insightful tale about love, loss, and the magic of nature for anybody navigating grief.

 

ISBN: 978 - 0 - 473 - 62267 - 1

Illustrated by Fabienne Joni Sopacua of FJS-Art & Design.
First edition: April 2022. 
Second edition: October 2023.

Publisher: EQ Storytelling Ltd. 

 

Lulu and the Forest Troll: an insightful tale about bullying and self-love

Introducing two heartwarming new characters; yellow Dizzy Waggle Lulu and the moody, mud cake making Forest Troll!

Together they unravel the important topics of bullying and empathy in Lulu and the Forest Troll: an insightful tale about bullying and self-love, the third book in the Dizzy Waggle series.

When the musty and dusty Forest Troll causes chaos in the Dizzy Waggle town, using cruel words that match the anger he feels, Lulu is quick to teach him a lesson about inner happiness. 

But the lovable Dizzy Waggle picks up her own lesson about forgiveness and friendship along the way.

 

ISBN: 978 - 067 - 00180 - 3

Illustrated by Fabienne Joni Sopacua of FJS-Art & Design.

First edition: March 2023

Publisher: EQ Storytelling Ltd.