My Three Wishes, A Fantasy Tale About Bereavement, Serenity, and Selflessness when Dealing with Loss. For Children 7 to 12.
Follow Penelope as she finds serenity and wisdom through her beautifully vivid imagination in this whimsical, fantasy tale. Throughout her wonderful journey, Pen travels through magical adventures. She encounters her genie who helps her realize that being selfless can provide comfort and serenity in times of loss and bereavement.
This delightfully colorful, rhythmic, rhyming picture book encourages and empowers children to explore the option of selflessness when trying to accept loss and adds serenity and selflessness into the healing process. This beautiful message of strength, courage and acceptance is discreetly tucked into this magical fantasy tale that shows kids that everything will be okay. It was carefully crafted for children 7 to 12 and provides an honest, yet discreet and powerful message. Finding strength to cope with loss through selflessness and serenity can be an empowering part of the grieving process. Penelope's role in the story's discreet resolution helps her accept, and teaches that loss is part of life.
A heart-warming story that introduces children to the option of being selfless and allowing for serenity, a comforting resolution to death and dying, to strengthen and normalize emotions. It encourages discussions of grief and ways of processing the reality of loss. My Three Wishes highlights strength, power, and peace and helps children deal with loss while understanding their feelings during traumatic events. Aiming to illustrate that everything will be okay, My Three Wishes is a must read for any family experiencing loss!
Welcome to book 2 of The Treasure Chest Series
Whimsical and entertaining, yet candid examples of true-to-life challenges that children may face. These heartwarming, feel-good picture books illustrate that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how dark it is. The Treasure Chest includes stories that demonstrate strength and acceptance during life's sometimes harsh realities. Stories weaved to help children find that light they sometimes so desperately need!
Book 1
A Family is Love, And it's Just Right for Us
Author Biography:
About the AuthorJessie Hionis loved nursery rhymes as a child. Something fascinated her about their rhythm, and she found herself singing them again and again until her older sisters would beg her to stop.Jessie's mom had a knack for rhyming words, and she managed to turn everyday events into entertaining, rhythmic, and rhyming songs. Jessie remembers mom's spontaneously invented lullabies and songs that turned everyday events at home, into beautiful melodies.It's no wonder that words and the play of utterances fascinated Jessie. She started writing stories at 12 years old, and of course, they were mostly rhyming stories. While studying to be a teacher, Jessie learned of the importance of rhyme. Verse helps children to develop phonemic awareness, pronunciation, articulation, aids in reading and in the understanding of concepts. Knowing that literacy skills are strengthened through rhyme validated Jessie's passion for words and rhythm. She then intentionally used her rhyming words to teach, while she entertained elementary school students for 37 years. She has actively trained a plethora of aspiring and new teachers and was a pedagogical and literary consultant throughout her long-lived and much-loved career in education.Jessie Hionis has authored several learning materials published by Cheneli�re Education of Montreal, Quebec, which are used in schools today. Since retiring from her career in teaching, she has decided to fully invest in her long-term passion, the creation and publication of children's stories. Jessie loves to travel and lives just outside Montreal, Canada with her husband Chris, who often acts as the audience for her stories, since she retired from the classroom.Jessie's stories are tested and true-to life. Mostly inspired by situations arising in her students' lives during her teaching career, Jessie's stories entertain while discreetly providing valuable tools for children, parents, and teachers to help deal with challenging situations that are simply part of life. Jessie writes for anyone who has a soft spot for delightful, heart-warming stories that are sure to entertain the young, as well as the not so young.Jessie's stories are weaved to inspire young minds, captivate children, parents, and teachers alike. They aim to provide strength, perseverance, understanding and acceptance to children and their families.
