AMANDA’S FALL Kelly Bouldin Darmofal Loving Healing Press (2019) ISBN: 9781615994502 Reviewed by Lydia Dehning (age 6) for Reader Views Kids (3/20) Amanda’s Fall: A Story for Children About Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) by Kelly Bouldin Darmofal is the story of a little girl named Amanda who is at school…
Humans have always experienced anxiety as a defense mechanism to danger, says Fred Zelinger, a Cedarhurst psychologist. “Anxiety is fundamentally a survival need. If something worries us, we end up doing something to be safe, to avoid the danger,” he says. But it’s no longer a sabre-toothed tiger that’s the…
Miss Popular Steals the Show: Girls in Wheelchairs Rule! is a delightful and humorous diary account from “Bix,” a plain Jane from a struggling family trying to outdo and steal the third-grade classroom stage from Valerie, whose mother is a famous author. Miss Popular may be a wheelchair-user, but she…
Sharon Martin, of Beck Valley Books writes: We’re All Not the Same, But We’re Still Family: An Adoption and Birth Family Story is an excellent story which depicts the story of Deshaun and how he has a lot of questions about being adopted. Why was he given up for adoption?…
“A great book for kids and adults alike to deal with negative emotions that drag us down. I love how each emotion is tied to a different colored balloon, and the imagery is perfectly described so that you can almost feel the balloons drifting off. A rainbow that helps kids…
Having adopted both of our sons, I found that this book covers the exact questions and issues that were discussed in our pre-adoption training. The story was written for adoptive families to explore the benefits of adoption openness. In her “For Parents and Caregivers Only” at the back of the…
Creating a safe a nurturing environment for a child that has suffered a family loss requires empathy and compassion on the part of those responsible for providing care for this child. Fearful and apprehensive at first when placed in an unknown home with strangers, any young child might regress and…
The Health Shelf Amanda’s Fall: A Story for Children About Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Kelly Bouldin Darmofal, author Bijan Samaddar, illustrator 9781615994502 $26.95 hc / $15.95 pbk / $4.95 Kindle “Amanda’s Fall” is a story for children about traumatic brain injury, with special information for parents, teachers, and caregivers. Written…
We are happy to announce that Theresa Fraser’s latest book We’re All Not the Same, But We’re Still Family has won the Outstanding Children’s Book Dealing with Important Issue. This award is given by Fran Lewis, who reviews more than 100 books per year.
Children often go through many unfortunate changes in their young lives. Foster care is something that needs to be more carefully monitored and protecting the lives of these innocent children paramount. What happens when a young child’s parents can’t get along and the mother takes the youngest for a short…
