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|  | | Is a Worry Worrying You?
Do you ever have a worry that won't go away? Whay is a worry anyway? This humorous picture book helps kids identify common, and not so common, worries and helps children deal with them
Children are living in a worrisome world today. This book helps them to look at their worries and offers some ways to deal with them.
Is a Worry Worrying You? (Tanglewood Press, 2005 and paperback 2007) was referred to by Associated Press as one of a "new crop of kids' books that doesn't shy away from tackling big ideas." Teacher Magazine said that "the story offers a lighthearted way for kids to confront, and then get past, their anxieties."
| |  | | Missed Perceptions Challenge Your Thoughts Change your Thinking
Missed Perceptions: Challenge Your Thoughts Change Your Thinking acknowledges that our individual openness to a broader perspective is the means of living a fuller life. Each essay is followed by a Perception Challenge-a game, a quiz, an activity, a discussion-that encourages readers to rethink their usual approach to life.
p style="text-align: center">span style="font-size: 11pt">Missed Perceptions: Challenge Your Thoughts Change Your Thinking is a book that will shift the way you look at the world. Written in individual essays, it really poses just one question - How large can you be? It focuses on expanding perception in all directions. /span>
Each time we hold on tightly to what we think is the only answer, we miss perceptions that aren't within our current frame of reference.
When we question our long-held thoughts and understandings, we challenge our perceptions and encourage experiences | |  | | The Story Blanket
Babba Zarrah tells stories to the village children on her woolen story blanket but when she sees villagers in need, she secretly unravels the blanket to help them. Soon there is no blanket to sit on - until the villagers discover her secret and give her a surprise of her own.
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The Story Blanket is a tale of kindness and community, recycling and sharing. When everyone cares for each other, the village
When Babba Zarrah notices that Nikolai has a hole in his shoe, she decides to knit him a surprise of woolen socks. Only there is no yarn to be had in the snowed-in village. So she unravels a little of the blanket the children sit on to hear her stories. Soon Babba Zarrah is surprising others in the village, too. When the children discover who is making the surprises, the villagers in turn surprise Babba Zarrah. |
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