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Portrays everyday situations in which children see themselves as "different" in family life, preferences, and aptitudes, and yet, feel that being different is all right.
With this book, you and your young child or friend will discover a beautifully illustrated fairy tale of friendship and love from award winning Lithuanian American author and illustrator, Rolandas Dabrukas. The story begins in a tranquil green meadow, with a green pond and a white-blossomed apple tree. All is new in Springtime. In the tree lives the storkling Ora and her stork siblings with their stork parents. All of the young storks are filled with joyful thoughts of learning to fly and learning to find a meal. Nearby, in the green pond, a baby frog - Tutis - is not so happy. He was born the only orange frog among so many green frogs. Through spring and into summer, Tutis feels sad and nothing else but "different". But, read and see, as his unlikely friendship with the storkling Ora begins, first with some real danger, but then through Ora's great heart and love. See their playful adventures together with other animals that they meet across the meadow. This timeless work of art will bring imagination and joy to your young child or friend from its many whimsical illustrations. Its story will be a lasting lesson of how we can overcome anything through kindness. Also, although we are all different, long-lasting friendship is easily discovered when we are willing to share happiness together in our own neighborhood, in our meadow. This story is tested on children only. Warning - 100% of children were extremely touched by the little frog's story in a heart opening way.
Rand was initially puzzled as to why young spirits wanted to speak through her—she had no children of her own and the responsibility of talking with people who had lost theirs seemed too great to bear. But the compelling answers came with time and patience: No one finds death more inexplicable than a grieving parent, thus no spirits are more motivated to make sense of it all for those they’ve left behind than young ones. These spirits clearly want to heal broken hearts and deepen our understanding of life and death, and Rand has the unique ability to help deliver their messages. Through her, young spirits talk freely about how to make sense of murder, suicide, and accidental deaths. They also discuss the different ways relationships on both sides can be mended, how the intergenerational cycle of abuse and addiction can be stopped, and how “joy guides”—miscarried and aborted children—can actually help those they’ve left behind move forward. The insights they share in this uniquely comforting book will surprise, inform, and inspire. What’s more, their answers to our questions about death reveal many valuable tips for living a better life while on earth too.
A children's book that explains how being different is okay and helps them to understand that each person is special no matter what they look like or what they do.
I Am Different, Just Like You! is a creative non-fiction children's book that uses fun illustrations and real photos to explain what Down syndrome is and the remarkable things that people with Down syndrome are capable of doing. It showcases a little girl named Adella who, just like other little girls, loves to run, play, sing, and dance. But there are also things that make Adella different. One difference is that she has Down syndrome. As she explains what Down syndrome is, readers will find that there are things that make them different too, just like Adella.
In this children's book, a boy with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is about to embark on his third grade year. The boy describes his anxiety, fears, and discusses his struggles from an honest view point of what it is like to live with FASD in Elementary school. He shows us that the support from family, friends, and teachers certainly makes a positive difference. This book helps children understand their "different" is perfectly okay, and they are not alone.
In an unflinching account Brooks poignantly captures the struggle of living with a child who appears to see the world through broken glass.
Growing up has never been easy and one of the most traumatic things I can still remember, even at fifty, was being picked on and teased. Times were different though and although words cut like a knife we never could have imagined the same knife would be the knife cutting our own children. Who knew that bullying a child with cruel words would go so viral that they were shamed through a never ending internet that left them to be found hanging in their closets, or lying beside a smoking gun, or in a bathtub with slit wrists and of course the famous empty pill bottle. Is this harsh to hear? Yes, you bet it is! But it happens all too regularly. In my hometown area at least five young teens over the last two years have taken their own lives because they were bullied! Why? Because they were different. This book is not designed to help prepare your child for college or to help get them a high profile paying job one day. This book was written to teach them to be children, to love themselves for exactly who they are, that no matter what God loves them with all his being and that they are never alone and that however they may be feeling there is always someone else out there who is feeling the same! So instead of giving up, start reaching out to one another, draw on one another's strengths you can beat this ugly monster. This book was also designed to help mommies and daddies who may struggle with the right things to say to their child. Its not always easy to approach these issues and as parents we can choose to hide our heads in the sand or begin taking the early steps to be a part of building a strength and bond with our children that creates a beautiful human being.
I have always felt that I have had a very eventful life so far, I love life and value every single day. Friends have tried to talk me into putting my stories to print in the past, but I have always laughed this off. But when we found ourselves in our first ever lockdown, I ordered nine Pukka pads, a large amount of pens, and sat in our garden summer house every day and scribbled my life memoirs, to the best that my 57 year old memory allowed. Yes this book is about my weird obsessions, my deep love of music, and the unusual situations that I have always found myself in. But overall it is about the lifelong friendships of a group of Northern folk growing up in the 1970's and beyond. From life changing discoveries in my pre teens, to life and death decision making in my later years, the overwhelming conclusion of my stories is that I am truly blessed. And even though things in my life have not always gone to plan, I am blessed.
