Download or read book Simon the Hugger written by Stacy B. Davids and published by Beaming Books. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon the sloth loves to hug. He hugs plants. He hugs rocks. He hugs his friends. He even hugs himself! So when his best friend, Elsa the jaguar, and others around him start saying no to his hugs, he is crushed. Why wouldn't someone want to be hugged? After being rejected several times, he learns that both he and his friends need to want a hug at the same time so they both feel comfortable. This lighthearted story about a lovable, huggable sloth is a gentle introduction to the importance of receiving consent before offering physical affection to others, and respecting others' boundaries.

Download or read book How to Hug written by Maryann Macdonald and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2011 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader is invited to consider some things about when, who, and how to hug and also advised to be prepared to receive one in return.

Download or read book Don t Hug Doug written by Carrie Finison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Doug, an ordinary kid who doesn't like hugs, in this fun and exuberant story which aims to spark discussions about bodily autonomy and consent--from author Carrie Finison and the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of The World Needs More Purple People, Daniel Wiseman. Doug doesn't like hugs. He thinks hugs are too squeezy, too squashy, too squooshy, too smooshy. He doesn't like hello hugs or goodbye hugs, game-winning home run hugs or dropped ice cream cone hugs, and he definitely doesn't like birthday hugs. He'd much rather give a high five--or a low five, a side five, a double five, or a spinny five. Yup, some people love hugs; other people don't. So how can you tell if someone likes hugs or not? There's only one way to find out: Ask! Because everybody gets to decide for themselves whether they want a hug or not.

Download or read book The Littlest Sea Hugger written by Shell Cleave and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a little boy named Gio who loves to explore the beach. A beached whale appears on the shore that has died from ingesting plastic. Gio starts on a quest to encourage people to stop using plastic and preserve the health of the ocean ecosystem.

Download or read book Hugger Mugger written by Robert B. Parker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's easy to see why Parker's snappy banter and cynical eye have kept fans turning pages for 25 years . . . his wisecracks, combined with Parker's shorthand flair for scathing characterization, make for a satisfying read," said Entertainment Weekly of last year's Hush Money. Now Parker presents Spenser with a deceptively dangerous and multi-layered case: Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and the Boston P.I. travels to Georgia to protect the two-year-old destined to become the next Secretariat. When Spenser is approached by Walter Clive, president of Three Fillies Stables, to find out who is threatening his horse Hugger Mugger, he can hardly say no: He's been doing pro bono work for so long his cupboards are just about bare. Disregarding the resentment of the local Georgia law enforcement, Spenser takes the case. Though Clive has hired a separate security firm, he wants someone with Spenser's experience to supervise the operation. Despite a veneer of civility, Spenser encounters tensions beneath the surface southern gentility. The case takes an even more deadly turn when the attacker claims a human victim, and Spenser must revise his impressions of the whole Three Fillies organization--and watch his own back as well. With razor-sharp dialogue, eloquently spare prose, and some of the best supporting characters to grace the printed page, Hugger Mugger is grand entertainment.

Download or read book The Joy of Small Things written by Hannah Jane Parkinson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book is a not-so-small joy in itself.' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Parkinson has the gift of making you look with new eyes at everyday things. The perfect daily diversion.' JOJO MOYES 'Always funny and frank and full of insight, I absolutely love Parkinson's writing.' DAVID NICHOLLS 'I loved this book . . . Parkinson's writing transports you to unexpected places of joy and comfort . . . these pages contain happiness.' MARINA HYDE 'The twenty-first century feels a lot more bearable in Parkinson's company.' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON Drawn from the successful Guardian column, these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you through dismal days. Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown ('like bathing in marshmallow'), finds calm in solo cinema trips, is charmed by the personalities of fonts ('you'll never see Comic Sans on a funeral notice'), celebrates pockets and gleefully abandons a book she isn't enjoying. Parkinson's everyday exaltations - selected from her immensely successful Guardian column - will utterly delight. FEATURES BRAND NEW MATERIAL 'A compendium of delights.' OBSERVER 'Delightful . . . a love letter to those little moments of bliss that get us through the daily grind.' RED

Download or read book Snap written by Patti Wood and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From business meetings to social events to first dates to job interviews, we all encounter new people every day. Our ability to read body cues and convey the right first impression drives the success and quality of our personal and professional lives. Body language expert Patti Wood, a sought-after consultant and speaker to Fortune 500 companies, helps businesses and individuals stand out, create profitable relationships, and thrive in competitive circumstances. Now she brings that knowledge to our daily lives, offering practical and proven guidance on accurately interpreting body cues and creating impressions both in person and digitally. In Snap, you’ll learn how to: * Use your voice and body language to convey confidence and charisma, authenticity and authority * Immediately discern people’s hidden agendas * Make the best impressions via email, phone, video conferencing, and social networks * Convey and interpret signals of likability, power, credibility, and attractiveness * Use nonverbal tools to spot true integrity or recognize charming frauds * Attract the best matches in business and romantic partners * Recognize how you really look to others

Download or read book Please Don t Give Me a Hug written by Judi Moreillon and published by Star Bright Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are children who, at heart, enjoy a solid bear hug, and there are many who don't -- and that's okay. Love and affection can be shown in many ways! In this sweet book, diverse children share different ways they feel comfortable being greeted by new and familiar friendly faces. Author Judi Moreillon's simple, powerful words describe the many ways a person can show they care, highlighting the importance of empathy and consent. Estelle Corke's illustrations capture the warm feelings of greeting a friend. For special use with children on the autism spectrum or with touch sensitivity, Please Don't Give Me a Hug! has an encouraging emphasis on social--emotional development that instills confidence in children encountering unfamiliar or scary social situations.

Download or read book Can I Give You a Squish written by Emily Neilson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important lesson on consent for over-exuberant little huggers, nestled inside this lighthearted, summery story about expressions of love and friendship. Kai is a little mer-boy who's big on hugs--or "squishes," as he and his mama call them. But not everyone's a fan of Kai's spirited embrace, which he discovers soon after squishing a puffer fish, who swells up in fright! Kai feels awful; but with the help of his friends, he figures out another way to show his affection, and then everyone demonstrates their preferred ways of being greeted. Because, as Kai realizes, "Every fish likes their own kind of squish."

Download or read book How Do You Hug a Porcupine written by Laurie Isop and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s easy to picture hugging a bunny, or even a billy goat…but how would you even begin to try to hug a porcupine? After seeing all his friends hug their favorite animals, one brave boy must grapple with this very question. Eventually he works up the courage to hug a porcupine—but the porcupine isn’t so sure he wants to be hugged! The surprise ending to this humorous tale, complete with charming illustrations, will have kids begging to hear this fun read-aloud again and again!

Download or read book The Pros and Cons of the Human Hug written by S. ELIA and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-18 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugging is the latest fad trend of recent years and like many other fad craze of previous years, will fade away in the future and be replaced with another fad. However the hugging fad has real health risks which many people do not realize yet.For many years I observed people embracing and hugging in many public and social gatherings with most of huggers enjoying the embracing and hugging. But many times I observed that many huggers were neither happy or enthusiastic with having someone else invade their personal space.That is the reason why I decided to write this book. To point out the good benefits of the human hug but also the huge health risks that people undertake every time they allow somebody else to invade their personal space. The health dangers of that simple hug, no matter how brief or long the hug is, can be mild to a simple offensive and unpleasant smell of somebody's odor to life long injuries or life threatening infections like the flu, tuberculosis, Ebola and other contagious infections. I also point out that people have a choice whether to allow someone to invade their personal space or to opt out of that hug they do not want or they feel that they are obligated to hug someone because of the social trends. The final decision whether to hug someone or not is up to the individual person. If you enjoy hugging and want to hug, regardless of all the health dangers and risks, go ahead and do it.Generally the hugs that are really bad are the ones that can harm you directly or indirectly. Any sneaky hug from behind or the side can cause some injury to you, sprain or strain to some of your joints including the joints of your spine.Any hug that puts pressure or a squeeze on your body is a bad hug that can cause an injury especially to the kids and the weak. A bear hug has the potential to break some ribs or cause some internal injuries and spinal injuries. A running to each other hug can cause serious physical damages. Try to avoid such hugs for the sake of your health.A bad hug is a hug that is unwanted by one of the involved huggers and you can see that on their face. A bad hug is a hug that can cause physical or mental harm to one of the huggers. There is a quote I saw somewhere that goes like this : "DO NOT FEAR THE ENEMY THAT ATTACKS YOU, BUT FEAR THE FAKE FRIEND THAT HUGS YOU" And I want to add my own quote to that: FEAR THE ATTACKS OF YOUR ENEMY AND THE HUGS OF YOUR FRIENDS......... BOTH can be DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH" .Many hugs can cause harm to your body directly or indirectly by introducing viruses, germs and other substances during the invasion of your personal space with a simple hug no mater how brief it is. Some of those viruses and germs can cause serious infections like colds , the flu and more serious infections like Ebola, tuberculosis or the bubonic plaque.Try to avoid the bad hugs for the sake of your health. But do in a genuine welcoming manner with open arms and a huge smile on your face. Enjoy the embrace hugging of that special person you have in your arms.But if, on the other hand do not want to hug someone don't do it.You have no obligation to hug anyone you don't feel comfortable to hug. Period. Just raise your open right hand in front of you and declare with a smile , " SORRY I AM NOT A HUGGER".Smile and nod or wave a welcome or good bye. that's it you are off the hook, and people will appreciate and respect your wishes and personal space!!I recommend GOOD HUGS ONLY A good hug is the one that both persons are willing to hug each other. They face each other with open welcoming arms, a big smile on their face and they gently embrace each other. They hold each other warmly but they do not squeeze or touch any sensitive area without permission, patting gently the other person on the back

Download or read book Hug Machine written by Scott Campbell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who have YOU hugged today? Open your arms to this delightfully tender, goofy, and sweet book from Scott Campbell. Watch out world, here he comes! The Hug Machine! Whether you are big, or small, or square, or long, or spikey, or soft, no one can resist his unbelievable hugs! HUG ACCOMPLISHED! This endearing story encourages a warm, caring, and buoyantly affectionate approach to life. Everyone deserves a hug—and this book!

Download or read book How To Be An Introvert In An Extrovert World written by Michele Connolly and published by Louder Minds. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree ** ** Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist ** ** Wishing Shelf Book Awards Finalist ** Do you long for alone time? Feel pressured by social demands? Get overstimulated? Wear an extrovert mask to get through life? Then this book is for you. It's a guidebook for introverts - full of strategies, stories, humor, inspiration, and psychological insights into the introvert life. How To Be An Introvert In An Extrovert World will help you to understand there’s nothing wrong with being an introvert. To celebrate the pleasures of the introvert life. To laugh about our introvert ways. To accept yourself and others so we all enjoy more confidence and happiness. Well, that’s a lot for one little book – so get yourself comfortable and let’s get started!

Download or read book From Here To There written by Holly Aho and published by Holly Aho. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of inspirational true short stories of support for our troops. Filled with letters from troops in Iraq to stories of supporting our troops from the states, you'll laugh out loud and shed a few tears as you share in the joys and sorrows of supporting our brave heroes. An honest look at our troops and those who support them. Learn more about the book and the author at HollyAho.com. Find out how From Here To There is touching lives (and how you can help support our troops) through the Reaching From Here To There program.

Download or read book The Monday Girl written by Julie Johnson and published by Julie Johnson. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katharine Firestone is a bit of a mess. Between an acting career that’s never quite made lift-off to stardom, a pathetic love life of online-dating-app losers, and a maxed-out balance on every one of her credit cards, things can’t get much worse. So, when she’s plucked from relative obscurity to land a lead role in Hollywood’s next big blockbuster, Kat is sure she’s finally on the right track. Until she meets her co-star, Grayson Dunn… and all her plans are completely derailed. Grayson is everything you’d expect the hottest actor alive to be — charming, disarming, and cocky as hell. As their characters slowly spiral into love on screen, Kat struggles to keep herself from falling for real. She knows handing Grayson her heart and expecting him not to break it would be the biggest mistake of her life. Yet the deeper she’s immersed in his glamorous world, the more blurred the boundaries between scripted affection and sincere passion become… and the harder it is to deny that their on-camera chemistry has crescendoed into a behind-the-scenes love affair… What happens when you fall for someone who’s guaranteed to shatter you into pieces? Do you walk away? Or do you let him break you because, even broken, there’s simply no way you can’t stay? THE MONDAY GIRL is a messy contemporary romance about a mixed up girl who falls for the wrong boy. It is the first part of a duet. The second installment, THE SOMEDAY GIRL, is now available for purchase. Recommended for readers ages 17+ due to strong language, sexual situations, drug use, and other mature elements.

Download or read book The Communion Of Saints written by John Miller and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God's saints come in a wide variety of personalities, with purity and dubious intent liberally mixed into all of them. They have many levels of faith or doubt, along with obvious or deceptively disguised sanctity. All saints are flawed people; there is none totally righteous, no, not one, as the apostle Paul insisted. Nonetheless, all daughters and sons of God are saints. And because everyone is a child of God, we are all saints, even if we reject our God-given saintly status. The author has known many hundreds of church members very well through more than fifty years of parish ministry, plus several thousands of others not so well. The Communion of Saints: A Pastor's Potpourri of Parishioners is a collection of short biographical sketches of many admired church people as seen through the eyes of a long-of-tooth parson.

Download or read book Empathic Leadership written by Peter Sear and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empathic leadership has become popular across industries including the challenging domain of elite sport. This book draws on the author's relevant research and experience and incorporates the words of leaders of teams to help to explain how empathy can help leaders to be successful in their work. Seven aspects of empathy are described in detail, each illustrated with fascinating stories from male and female head coaches of teams competing at the highest levels of nine different team sports. The result is an authentic portrayal of what it takes to become an empathic leader. Exploring the philosophies and practices of empathic leadership, attention is paid to a range of important factors within leadership, including relationship management, building trust, and establishing a strong line of communication. This book also focuses on the importance of self-empathy as a starting point of empathic leadership, providing readers with the ways to understand their own emotions and deep thoughts, and how they impact their leadership approach. Through this model, the author demonstrates how applying empathy in both work and life will enhance wellbeing, bring people together, and make leaders more influential and popular. This book will be of interest to coaches in sport, training organisations including national governing bodies, recruiters, leaders across all industries, and anyone interested in the role of empathy in professional relationships.