Girl Power:Empowerment for Girls based on Amazing Adventures in Shelby's Shoes
Relevant information about my new children's book, Amazing Adventures in Shelby's Shoes:
“Like star dust glistening on fairies' wings,
little girls dreams are of magical things.” This quote, credited to Sherry
Larson, effectively reflects one of the main themes of my new children’s book Amazing Adventures in Shelby’s Shoes,
being marketed to grades K – 3. The book also has the theme of empowerment for
girls, as well as boys.It includes glossary and a researched chapter called "Girl Power" at the end of the book.
In the
book, a little girl's imagination takes her all over the world as she plays
dress-up, but she comes to realize she can be, in reality, anything she wants
to be if she really tries. The book is a charming rhyming narrative with a non-fiction
chapter of information, references and links about Girl-power and empowering
children, especially girls, to realize their full potential and reach for the
stars – to “shatter that glass ceiling.” It is beautifully illustrated in vivid
color by illustrator, Veronica Castle.
Published
by Crimson Cloak Publishing in March 2017,
Amazing Adventures in
Shelby’s Shoes is available in
paperback and e-book formats through thousands of retailers, libraries, and
Internet commerce companies in North America, the U.K. and Europe, Australia,
and New Zealand, including, but not limited to, Amazon, Barnes & Noble,
Books-a-Million, Ingram, EBSCO, Chapters/Indigo (Canada), and Apple.
In the book, the reader will meet a charming and imaginative little girl named Shelby. Shelby,
while playing make-believe, imagined herself doing all kinds of daring things,
going to all kinds of exciting places, and being all kinds of famous and
important people. But while Shelby had fun with her make-believe adventures,
she really knew that those were only fun and imaginative journeys. She really
knew that she could have the power to be any kind of person she wanted to be,
travel anywhere she wanted to go, and do anything she wanted to do, if she
believed in herself. Shelby knew she could do such things if she tried really
hard, dreamed really big, and if she always reached for the stars.
Because of its relevance to the theme of empowerment for girls and women to realize their full potential, strive to reach their goals and dreams and to shatter that glass ceiling, I am including in this blog post a poem by Margarita Engle. Read and enjoy:
Books
are door-shaped
portals
carrying
me
across
oceans
and
centuries,
helping
me feel
less alone.
But my
mother believes
that
girls who read too much
are
unladylike
and
ugly,
so my
father's books are locked
in a
clear glass cabinet. I gaze
at
enticing covers
and
mysterious titles,
but I
am rarely permitted
to
touch
the
enchantment
of
words.
Poems.
Stories.
Plays.
All are
forbidden.
Girls
are not supposed to think,
but as
soon as my eager mind
begins
to race, free thoughts
rush in
to
replace
the
trapped ones.
I
imagine distant times
and
faraway places.
Ghosts.
Vampires.
Ancient
warriors.
Fantasy
moves into
the
tangled maze
of
lonely confusion.
Secretly,
I open
an
invisible book in my mind,
and I
step
through
its magical door-shape
into a
universe
of
dangerous villains
and
breathtaking heroes.
Many of
the heroes are men
and
boys, but some are girls
so tall
strong
and
clever
that
they rescue other children
from
monsters.
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