All the Colors of Me

Author: Ana Gomez
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539140023
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
All the Colors of Me is one of the first books worldwide that embraces the goal of helping children and adolescents understand their dissociative experiences. All the Colors of Me provides mental health professionals with a great tool to educate and explain dissociation to children and adolescents. All the Colors of Me takes complex concepts from the latest theories that address dissociation and puts them into clear and concrete terms that are easy to understand for people of all ages.

Colors of Me

Author: Brynne Barnes
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1410308537
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
Intriguing collage illustrations frame this timeless story of a young child who questions the significance of color. Speaking in verse, the child wonders if the natural world believes any particular color to be more important than another. Does the rain think I'm a color when it falls on my head? I wonder if the clouds think I'm a color... maybe they think I'm green or blue or red. The child comes to see the importance of a world filled with and accepting of all colors. Do I have to choose one color? I want to be them all - black, blue, purple, brown, pink, orange, yellow, red, white, and green. The whole world is full of colors - just like me. Brynne Barnes earned a B.S. from the University of Michigan and a M.A. from Eastern Michigan University, and she teaches writing at Adrian College. This is her first picture book. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she writes books, poetry, and music.Annika M. Nelson's work crosses cultural borders, portraying images of everyday life. She has illustrated several books including Folk Wisdom of Mexico, in addition to illustrations for many national publications. She lives near San Diego, California.

The Colors of Us

Author: Karen Katz
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250811155
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19

Book Description
A positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist's perspective. Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhood, Lena learns that brown comes in many different shades. Through the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people. Karen Katz created The Colors of Us for her daughter, Lena, whom she and her husband adopted from Guatemala six years ago.

The Color of Me

Author: Linda L. McDunn
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814629529
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
When people start to argue about the color of God, a beautiful rainbow reveals that God is the color of everyone and everything that He created.

All the Colors of Magic

Author: Valija Zinck
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338550896
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
"An exciting new voice among the world's storytellers." -- Cornelia FunkeA heartfelt, adventure-filled, and charming novel about a peculiar girl who embarks on a journey to find her father, the wizard. Penelope has always been different from other children. Her hair has been gray since she was born. It rains every year on her birthday. And she knows what her mother is going to say before the words even come out of her mouth. But one day, Penelope wakes up with sparkling red hair and her mother confesses the truth: Her father is not only still alive, he's a wizard! Penelope has inherited his powers, and must embark on a journey to find him.

All Colors of Life

Author: Lenny Mika Bonk
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734742854
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
"Every day is a new chance to get a little closer to ourselves - and therefore also to life." "All Colors of Life" is an artistic excerpt of Lenny Mika's life, because life has a lot of different facets. To him, life is not about being constantly happy, but about learning something from every moment, no matter what it looks like. He had to face a lot of difficulties in his life, yet he is happy to be alive and able to share his thoughts with the world. This book is Lenny Mika's way to express all the highs and lows of life. "Jeder Tag ist eine neue Chance, uns selbst - und damit auch dem Leben - ein Stück näher zu kommen." "Alle Farben des Lebens" ist ein künstlerischer Auszug aus Lenny Mikas Leben, denn das Leben hat viele verschiedene Facetten. Für ihn geht es im Leben nicht darum durchgehend glücklich zu sein, sondern aus jedem Moment etwas mitzunehmen. Er musste sich in seinem Leben vielen Schwierigkeiten stellen, doch er ist glücklich am Leben zu sein und seine Gedanken mit der Welt teilen zu können. Dieses Buch ist Lenny Mikas Weg alle Höhen und Tiefen des Lebens auszudrücken.

Nyeusi

Author: Lloyda
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595271022
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Nyeusi (meaning "Black" in Swahili), a collection of Spoken Words in Poetry is by a writer who is part of the poetry movement that is spreading worldwide. These spoken words are influenced by modern culture with an understanding of the dynamics of the modern poetry culture intertwined with the teachings from the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Poems such as Nyeusi, Lott's Crow, Caribbean Girl Collie Girl, Makeda, Mirror Mirror, Where You From, Who Dialed 911, White Girls have Bigger, Gots to Have a Job, Between the Chicken-head's Sheets and Blind Vision address social, economic, multi-racial and the hip hop culture of these times. These Spoken Words in Poetry give the readers a clear understanding of what the writer felt as those true-life circumstances were experienced or witnessed. Her words align with the universe and are not destructive to humanity and nature. These Spoken Words are meant to bring attention to our five senses and give us a paradigm for understanding our surroundings and urban culture.

All of Me

Author: Melanie A. Smith
Publisher: Wicked Dreams Publishing
ISBN: 173281547X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
The time has come to decide: it's all or nothing... Fresh off a series of life-changing events, real estate mogul Serafina Evans has decided to pursue the man she loves - the stubborn, intelligent, charming, and devastatingly handsome Alessandro Giordano. And while Alessandro is finally free of the ties that bound him, that revelation was followed by his insistence that he must return to his home country of Italy. So, Sera must track him down and find out why he left ... and if there's any hope left for their love. But as much as her life has changed lately, nothing can prepare Sera for the challenges and lessons in love, loss, and tragedy that are yet to come. This will include her biggest lesson yet: how to persevere through it all and mend a repeatedly shattered heart to do the impossible - give all of herself to someone. But is it something she's ready for? Note: Books One through Three in this series are meant to be read in order.

Barefoot Billetdoux

Author: Larry Whitler
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430314958
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 422

Book Description
A collection of 200 lyrics and poems from songs I've written since 1970. Most of these are in audible form on different online music sites but I wanted to showcase the lyrics by themselves coupled here with illustrations instead of melodies.

Memories from a Past Life

Author: Jim Lozen
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462036821
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
I write poetry; thats what I do. And when I wrote this book, I thought about nothing but you. When I wrote this book, thoughts just came to mind; No matter were I was, or what I was doing, they just came all the time. Its a collection of poetry that I submit to you; I had a blast writing, and when I started I was only forty-two. The book has poems in it that everyone can relate to; Poems I wrote for people just like you. I hope you enjoy them, because I loved writing them down, Each and every word as they all came around.