Bøger af Cornelia Spelman

I feel good about myself. Somebody loves me just as I am. I don't have to look like anyone else, be a certain size, or do the same things. It's fine to be me. This book offers children positive and upbeat examples about being themselves. Together, the text and art foster self-esteem and independence.

Acclaimed children''s book author Cornelia Maude Spelman''s memoir of her family springs from a meeting and subsequent friendship with the late, legendary New Yorker editor William Maxwell in the 1920s. When Spelman hints at what she thinks of as the failure of her parents'' lives, he counters that "in a good novel one doesn''t look for a success story, but for a story that moves one with its human drama and richness of experience." Maxwell encourages her to tell her mother''s story at their final meeting. Missing is Spelman''s response to Maxwell''s wisdom. With the pacing of the mystery novels her mother loved and using everything from letters and interviews to the family''s quotidian paper trail-medical records, telegrams, and other oft-overlooked clues to a family''s history-Spelman reconstructs her mother''s life and untimely death. Along the way, she unravels mysteries of her family, including the fate of her long-lost older brother. Spelman skillfully draws the reader into the elation and sorrow that accompanies the discovery of a family''s past. A profoundly loving yet honest elegy, Missing is complex and beautiful like the mother it memorializes.

Readers will recognize similiar experiences in their own lives as this little guinea pig describes feeling sad when someone is cross or when something bad happens. Eventually our heroine realizes that feeling sad doesn't last forever.

In this simple book, the author begins by helping children see that when they are sick, hurt, or unhappy, others care about them. Children can then begin to see that others need to be cared about as well.

A bear cub describes situations that make her jealous: when someone has something she wants, when someone is good at something she wants to be good at, and when someone else gets all the attention.

Offering children positive and upbeat examples about being themselves, Spelman portrays a very young guinea pig and friends succeeding in common situations readers will relate to. Full color.

Everybody worries. Children worry, tooNin new or confusing situations or whensomeone is angry with them. This new addition to the acclaimed The Way I Feelseries uses reassuring words and illustrations to address a child's anxietiesand shows them ways to help them feel better. Full color.

In simple, reassuring language, the author explains that a child's body is his or her own; that it is all right for kids to decline a friendly hug or kiss, even from someone they love; and that you can still be friends even if you don't want a hug now.

Anger is a scary emotion for young children, their parents, and caregivers. As this little bunny experiences the things that make her angry, she also learns ways to deal with her anger--ways that won't hurt others.