/Marcus AureliusBig Ideas
Marcus Aurelius
The most powerful man in the world kept a private notebook about how to be a better person, and he never meant a single word of it to be read. Two thousand years later, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is still in print because the habit behind it still works: look at your day honestly, let go of what isn't yours to control, and try again tomorrow. That habit scales all the way down to a toddler's bedtime — so we built it three ways.
The Little Book
Picture Book (8.5" × 8.5") · Full Color Cut-Paper Collage
The most powerful man in the world kept a little book. Every night he opened it and asked himself one honest question: did I do okay today? This is the gentlest first taste of that habit, a bedtime book that shows the very youngest reader how to get up when it is hard, let the small things go, and try again tomorrow.
Buy on Amazon
The Emperor's Journal
Picture Book (8.5" × 8.5") · Full Color Soft Crayon
Marcus Aurelius ran the largest empire on earth, and every night the most powerful man in the world sat down with a small book to write about what he was still trying to get right. His journal holds real tools a young child can use tonight: how to get ready for a hard day, how to hold still when anger pulls, and how to make a giant problem feel small again. They are two thousand years old, and they still work.
Coming Soon
The Emperor's Meditations
Chapter Book (6" × 9") · Black & White Illustrations
The most powerful man in the world kept a secret journal, and in it he did not brag or give orders. He scolded himself, doubted himself, and tried to talk himself into being a little better the next day. He wrote it through a plague, a ten-year war, and the slow loss of his own son, and he never meant anyone to read a word of it. This is the practice behind one of the most honest books ever written, handed to a child young enough to grow up with it.
Coming Soon