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Books : Children's Books : People & Places : Social Issues : Violence : Nonfiction
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Children need to learn at an early age that their actions will have consequences. Negative actions having negative consequences. They must learn to take responsibility for these actions. And to know how one "seemingly" little thing you do can affect so many so greatly... They need to learn and experience respect, caring and love both for themselves and others. We all need to work together on solving these problems.Violence is an extreme form of "bullying." A worse case scenario. Most of the time these kids started out being picked on themselves. In my book we call this the "BULLY CYCLE." Bullies creating more bullies. Becoming a bully as a means of protecting yourself (or so you think) ... hoping if you are the one causing the pain, you will never again have to experience it yourself. They feel so bad about themselves and think that controlling someone else will make them feel better or help distract from their own problems.
Children today feel numb ... some have been bullied to the point of feeling nothing. They are withdrawn and hopeless. If all kids could understand how to accept themselves and know that they're "OK", there wouldn't have to be any "Bullies" or "Victims".
This book helps parents, teachers and children give kids the skills they need to deal with BULLIES and maintain healthy SELF-ESTEEM. It is intended to help both the bullies an
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'on that day' responds in a remarkably uplifting way to the September 11th tragedy. The book's simple but hopeful message suggests that even though bad things happen in the world, individual people always have a choice to do good things too. Vibrant illustrations accompany the book's powerful message, which appeals equally to children and to all those adults trying to cope with the tragedy.
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The three books "INSIDE OF ME I HAVE FEELINGS," "INSIDE OF ME IF I FEEL..." and "INSIDE OF ME THERE'S A STORM A-BREWING" make up the "INSIDE OF ME" series. The text starting in the first book, "I HAVE FEELINGS," moves from ownership of one's own feelings to making choices of acting on a feeling in "IF I FEEL..." and finally seeing in "THERE'S A STORM A-BREWING" consequences for choices made of acting on an angry feeling.
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September 11, 2001:A Day in History is a juvenile nonfiction history book, designed to provide children ages 7-14 with a sensitive, but factual, account of what occurred on a defining day in our history. Written in plain language with soft illustrations,the book describes the sequence of events as they unfolded from a perspective to which school age children can relate.The book does not speculate as to causes of the shocking acts of September 11 and recognizes that closure may be long in coming. Instead, it enables children and their parents to understand how America changed at home and how our role in the world was forever altered.
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"My hand is a part of me. My foot is a part of me. My..." starts young readers on a journey through a powerful message using twenty-nine striking black and white photographic portraits. Fourteen illustrated feelings (near full page size) brings forth every possible detail in facial expressions. On their own, young children return to these pages searching for varification and words to explain feelings stiring inside of them. Through pictures and words readers can better understand boundaries and ownership of feelings. This book is a delightful experience for young children in the home and school to discover and affirm feelings inside of themselves and start a journey of "feelings fitness" for successful growth and development. This is a book designed for children three through eight years of age with a message that is ageless. Multiculturally sensitive.
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Wake Up and Recognize: Life of a Gang Member - is an awareness reading/workbook for young children and parents. Through out the book, Papa Golley appears with ‘Points of Discussion’ questions for your students or children, so they can give their point of views on the gangs. Children are able to see the influence that gang members have on others, how gangs affect the schools and the community, and what role the parents can play.In Wake Up and Recognize: Life of a Gang Member, James Daniel, age 12 is an honor roll student who is involved with many afternoon activities. James lives with both parents who work full-time, and his 6-year-old sister, Daisy. James struggles within, as he makes a decision whether or not to join a local gang. Once the decision is made, James must live with the consequences.
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Seemor is a near sighted sea gull that has to wear glasses. His fellow sea gulls are constantly teasing him. His anger builds to the point of exploding, but instead he makes a choice to do something else with his angry energy. The illustrations of Seemor, his acquaintances and friends are delightful cartoon characters in striking black and white. A facilitator's information and discussion guide as well as an illustrated diagram of how anger works in the human brain follows Seemor's story. This is a book designed for children three through eight years of age.
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Inside of Me If I Feel is a children's picture with 40 black and white photographs of exceptional quality. This tool provides opportunity for visual learning and stretching the mind to establish one's own healthy life skills through awareness of emotion and choice of behavior. This is a book designed for children three through eight years of age with a message that has no age limit. (Multiculturally sensitive)
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Help Me Be Good About Being Destructive explains how destruction can be harmful and shows children how to avoid being destructive. Companion CD includes songs and read-along with Joy.