Featured Titles: In My Feelings & Included
Included byJayneen Sanders
Published by Educate2Empower Publishing
Rights sold
Slovak
Age Range: 6 - 12
This book introduces the reader to six wonderful kids: Sam, Rishi, Jay, Audrey, Ty and Zara. They love playing games, books, making stuff and being silly. They have things they are good at and things they need to work on. And just like kids everywhere, they want to feel safe, loved and included.
This book provides the reader with ways they can be more inclusive in their play and encourages the celebration of diversity in all its unique and wonderful forms.
Children will come away with a growing understanding that people everywhere have differing abilities, and this only makes the world a more colourful, exciting, diverse and amazing place.
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Nicely done!
It's great to see books like this one teaching kids how to love their neighbor - especially those who are different than them! We all deserve respect and friendship. Bravo! — Amazon review
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Definitely "included"!
It has been a privilege to see this book come together. I know that many children and families will be seeing themselves in this book and hopeful that others will too. Well done on a brilliant and engaging work. — Customer review (Educate2Empower Publishing web page)
Jayneen (aka Jay Dale) is an experienced early years educator, author and publisher. She started her teaching career in the 1980s as a primary school teacher in rural Australia. She then moved to Melbourne and taught at a number of inner-city schools. In 1985, Jay had a change of career and became an educational editor and publisher. In the early 90s, Jay and her partner moved to Japan to work as English teachers. They lived and worked in Japan for over three and a half years. In fact, Jay's first daughter was born there. On returning to Australia, Jay began work as an educational author/packager. Since that time, she has authored and produced numerous award-winning titles for the educational publishing industry. Jay is also an accomplished children's book author, writing a number of titles for such literacy series as ZigZags, Totally Kidz, Deadly and Incredible, and a children's picture book series for Penguin. She is currently working with an educational publisher as lead author of a literacy series. Jay has written over 100 titles in that series. Jay is a mother of three daughters and was a school councillor at her local school for over seven years. This time spent in schools both as a teacher and a parent inspired her to ask the question of her community: 'What are we doing in schools to protect our children from unsafe touch?' When she realised very little was actually being done, she decided to use her authoring and publishing skills to write Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept to help parents, carers and teachers to broach the subject of self-protection and to encourage children to speak up.
Camila Carrossine. About me: I was born and live in São Paulo, one gigantic city in Brazil. I draw since I was a little girl. At first at the walls of my bedroom and today I draw on the pages of the books. Illustrating books (or magazines, or websites, or e-books) became my career.
I'm also a writer, so I illustrate other writers' books and sometimes my own words.
In more than 10 years of career, I have illustrated more than 50 books for publishers in Brazil and around the world. Publishers such as Penguin Random House, Albert Whitman & Company, Scholastic Magazines, Panda Books, Global Editora, Zit, Lago de Histórias, among others.
In My Feelings: A Teen Guide to Discovering What You Feel by Vidal Annan
Published by Free Spirit Publishing
World rights available
Age Range: 12+
The simple and empowering message of In My Feelings is that emotions, especially unpleasant ones, are not just to be avoided, controlled, or treated. Emotions can serve as a source of information that teens can use to make decisions and help them live their best lives.
The path to emotional health for teens lies in improving their ability to recognize, understand, manage, and use emotions. Dr. Vidal Annan encourages teens to think of emotions as messengers or sources of data that they can access and use to set and achieve goals, and to continue to grow and develop.
In My Feelings starts by exploring what it means to be a teenager, what emotions are, and why people have them. In the second part of the book, Dr. Annan delves into specific emotions that teens may be experiencing daily. In My Feelings helps teens develop their emotional literacy and tap into the power of their emotions to improve their mental health.
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A lucid introduction
A lucid, basic introduction to key emotions, their positive and negative effects, and their management.—Kirkus
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This book is a major accomplishment
Vidal Annan has written a brilliant book that will provide teens with useful tools to become more emotionally self-aware and self-reliant as they journey through adolescence. It is filled with accessible information based on current research and Dr. Annan’s extensive experience working with teens. What is most impressive is his ability to speak to young people with respect and support. This book is a major accomplishment that will be read by teens and will be a core resource in the youth development field.—Stephen Tosh, Executive Director & CEO, Boys’ Club of New York
Vidal Annan is a clinical psychologist who has worked with children, teens, and young adults for more than fifteen years. As a clinician, Dr. Annan has extensive training in treatments that help individuals understand their thoughts and feelings better so they can make healthier choices in their personal, social, and professional lives. In addition to his clinical work, Vidal enjoys presenting to audiences on topics related to mental health and wellness. He has also worked as a college professor, program director, and scientific researcher. He enjoys drawing, reading, watching sports, superhero movies, and hanging out with friends and family. He has two teenage children and constantly reminds them to listen to their feelings and live their values.
