Believable characters and the warmth of Green’s writing bring light to a difficult topic” – Observer In the margins of a book’s pages, sparks fly as a teenage romance begins. Dugan cuts their portraits down to the bare essentials, forgoing props, sets, and other frills for the sake of foregrounding their subject’s humanity . Self-care is such an important part of treating yourself kindly and I love that this book is demonstrating that for the target audience.

Each story helps young readers deal with life's little problems, while teaching the basic values of honesty, determination and self-confidence. Michaela's first book as both author and illustrator, Colour and Me takes inspiration from conversations with her son. It is a good thing to read to young kids so that they know from a young age that it is very important to love yourself, and that you can do so many fun things even when you don't have a friend around. Will Jamie and this mystery boy have the courage to meet – and if they do, what will it take to hold on to each other?Ultimately, the song is about Daniel questioning the roots of his relationship and hoping that his partner and him share this love/future he feels he wants. But her classmates and their negative words lead her to question herself and the confidence she has in her physical ability.

She is her own best friend, she likes her round tummy, and best of all: she reads good books by herself (like me).

Their process of working slowly and collaboratively discloses moments of heightened psychological intensity in images that transcend the specifics of a particular person or place, engaging with what it means to know oneself alongside and through others. Things always get significantly worse before they get better, and the ending of part 1 is never, ever as straightforward as it appears. The book introduces us to a beautiful and radiant young female pig who discusses the wonderful qualities she attains.

I would use this book to address topics such as self-identity and self-expression to be discussed in the class with a wide range of students.I Like Me Better" reached the top ten in Australia, Austria and Germany, the top-twenty in New Zealand and Slovakia, and the top-forty in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland. Right now, this very minute, each of us has somebody wonderful wherever we are, when reading good books. Sometimes children try to change things about themselves to fit in with people but this book shows that self-love is important. Filled with Simon James Green’s distinctive brand of humour making this an important but also very enjoyable read!