What I would give for a cupcake or ice cream! That’s not in my dietary stars. Celia has her own forbidden foods and that too includes bread, rolls and all types of delicious cakes. The hardest part is going to school and watching the other kids eat their treats while…
In a world where so many think our differences matter comes a children’s book that teaches lessons for young people and adults. The child telling the story is mixed that is she is neither black or white she says she is mixed. If she says she’s white it leaves her…
Children are expected to follow the rules except when they don’t. Jackson is a typical boy who has his good days and not so good ones. At times his temper flares and instead of close his eyes and counting to ten or just taking a deep breath to calm down…
Author Maggy Williams grew up as a biracial child with a black father and a white mother. Thus, she writes from personal experience. She says that she chose to embrace her multiracial heritage because she was taught that she could, and that her hope for this book is help children…
Ethan would like to share his story with everyone. He’s autistic and cannot verbalize his feelings but he can use physical expressions to help get his messages across to everyone. He’s smart and has a great personality and uses hand movements, bouncing balls and other objects to convey his feelings…
The author created this wealth of information to help children understand the needs of others especially brothers and sisters. Teaching better ways to communicate and that everyone is unique, special and that we can all learn something from each other. Take your time. Listen to others and understand their hopes,…
In all my over thirty years of practicing psychotherapy I have read and recommended many self-help books, but seldom have I found one that speaks to me with the spiritual wisdom of Bob Rich’s From DEPRESSION to CONTENTMENT. Here is a book that offers an attitude to life that can…
The playful rhyming text encourages readers to maintain a broad focus as they become more grounded and aware. It can aid them in identifying the root of their feelings, help them to examine their reactions to emotions, and enable them to decide for themselves what they may be ready to…
From Wayne Walker’s Home School Book Review blog Through the rhyming text, author Maggy Williams, who herself has celiac disease, provides comfort and an explanation that will help kids who have gluten allergies to understand how the disease works and what it means at school, and also gives information to…
Excerpted from Wayne Walker’s Home School Book Review: Ethan is a young boy who is having a birthday. He is pictured as telling the reader, “The me that I am is silent. You can see in my eyes and know in your heart that I’m in the world of Ethan.” …
The Picturebook Shelf – Children’s Bookwatch: July 2019 Celia and the Glue Man Maggy Williams, author Elisabeth Hasegawa Agresta, illustrator 9781615993901, $15.95, 32pp Based upon the author’s experience with learning to live with Celiac disease, “Celia and the Glue Man: A Girl’s Journey to Becoming Gluten- Free and Happy” is…
Float is a valuable resource to help everyone understand and identify you emotions. It teaches us to learn how to release unwanted thoughts and feelings and negative emotions. It’s time for you to face your fears, anger and heal and feel special. Follow each guide of each balloon as I…
Resources are amazing as the author shared valuable information for parents and caregivers related to TBI : defining it, causes , signs and symptoms, facts we all need to know tips for coping with TBI and tips for teachers of TBI survivors and other resources. Author Kelly Bouldin Darmofal includes…
Children need to understand that sleep is vital and sometimes being over excited can hamper you the next day. Parents can use this as an example of following directions and rules and understanding that they just might know best. Justin is a typical child who gets excited about a real…
“This is a great book for parents, teachers, clinical social workers like the author to teach children and even adults how to improve attention, emotional regulation, compassion for self and others and overall well being for teachers and students. Teachers can use this as a kickoff point for discussions with…
Did you know that each year 564,000 children are seen in hospital emergency rooms for brain injury, and TBI is the most common cause of death and disability for children in the United States? Author Kelly Bouldin Darmofal, who suffered a severe closed head injury from a car accident in…
MBR Bookwatch: May 2019 James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief Midwest Book Review 278 Orchard Drive, Oregon, WI 53575 Lorraine’s Bookshelf Please Explain Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy to Me Laurie Zelinger, PhD. & Perry Zelinger, M.D. authors 9781615994199, $27.95, HC, 42pp 9781615994182, $17.95 PB, $5.95, Kindle, www.amazon.com Please Explain Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy To…
Reviewer’s Bookwatch: May 2019 James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief Midwest Book Review 278 Orchard Drive, Oregon, WI 53575 Reviewer’s Choice From Depression to Contentment: A Self-Therapy Guide Bob Rich 9781615994366, $27.95 HC, 156pp, $5.95 Kindle 9781615994359, $16.95 PB, www.amazon.com Kevin Richardson Reviewer This is one of the best instructional books I’ve…
The Essential Addiction Recovery Companion Richard A Singer Loving Healing Press (2018) ISBN 9781615994021 Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (4/19) Richard Singer has both personal and professional knowledge about recovering from addiction and incorporates this experience into “The Essential Addiction Recovery Companion: A Guidebook for the Mind, Body,…
Power Down and Parent Up!: Cyber Bullying, Screen Dependence and Raising Tech-Healthy Children Holli Kenley Loving Healing Press, ©2019 9781615994380 HV6773 $21.95 Kenley, a marriage and family therapist and teacher, shows parents how to address cyberbullying and screen dependence in children. She describes how to turn their full attention to…
