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Menthol Elf

Valley Guide

Explore the Valley of Calm, the beautiful world where Menthol Elf and his friends live, learn, notice feelings, and find their way through everyday worries.

Watercolour view of the Valley of Calm with Menthol Elf and guide companions looking across the places of the valley.

Valley Guide

Step into the Valley of Calm

Discover the beautiful and vibrant world where Menthol Elf and his friends live, learn, notice feelings, and find their way through everyday worries.

The Valley Guide is the doorway into Menthol Elf’s world. Use it to explore the places, characters, special objects, and feeling signs that appear across the Valley of Calm. Each section gives a gentle first look, with clearer routes into the parts of the world families may want to discover next.

Explore

Maps and Places

Follow the paths through the Valley of Calm and visit the places where feelings can be noticed, named, and understood. The interactive map lets visitors move through the world at their own pace.

Worry WoodsFeelings FallsMirror LakeConfidence Canopy
Click through to find out more about the valley’s landmarks, what each place is about, and the gentle magic that lives there.
Open Maps and Places
The interactive Valley of Calm map artwork

Meet

Character Profiles

Meet Menthol Elf and the friends who help bring calm, kindness, courage, curiosity, and care into the valley. Each character has a role in helping feelings feel a little easier to approach.

Menthol ElfCalm guidesCareful listenersBrave helpers
Click through to meet the characters and learn who they are, what they notice, where they are often found, and how they gently support children in the world.
Open Character Profiles
Approved reference artwork of Menthol Elf

Find

Objects and Items

Look closer at the small things the valley keeps: smooth pebbles, leaf maps, lanterns, notes, tokens, and other gentle tools that help make a feeling easier to hold.

Breathing pebbleLeaf mapLanternKindness notes
Now open: the objects guide shows what each item can help children notice, where it may appear, and how it belongs in the Valley of Calm.
Open Objects and Items
Valley objects and items arranged on moss

Notice

Feelings and Their Presentation

In the Valley of Calm, feelings often appear through nature. The dedicated feelings guide shows how mist, ripples, light, wind, quiet sounds, and tiny path lights may look, sound, and move without making any feeling seem bad or wrong.

MistRipplesLightWindQuiet soundsTiny path lights
Now open: the feelings guide is a dedicated reference page with an interactive sign selector, story-use notes, home and school prompts, and gentle continuity boundaries.
Open Feelings and Their Presentation
Natural signs of feelings in the Valley of Calm

Start with the map, then wander from there. The guide now includes live routes into places, objects, characters, and feeling signs, with more linked resources able to grow around them over time.

Explore Maps and PlacesOpen Feelings GuideOpen Objects and Items