Download or read book Sweet Young Worried written by Blythe Baird and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird Following her widely successful debut, Baird wastes no time as she reels in her reader with breathtaking imagery and punching narratives. With expert precision and vulnerability, Baird guides us on an expedition embracing queerness, love, loss, mental health, feminism & healing along the way.
Download or read book If My Body Could Speak written by Blythe Baird and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and triumphs. In poems that dig deep into sexuality, acceptance of the body, survival of trauma, and learning to love yourself in spite of everything telling you not to, Baird's voice is a rich addition to her generation. Searing, soaring, and heartbreaking, If My Body Could Speak balances the softness of femininity with the sharpness that girls are forced to become. Includes poems such as "Girl Code 101", "When the Fat Girl Gets Skinny", and "Pocket-Sized Feminism" that have been watched by millions online.
Download or read book Wemberly Worried written by Kevin Henkes and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-07-25 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wemberly worried about everything. Big things. Little things. And things in between. Then it was time for school to start.And Wemberly worried even more. If you ever worry (or know someone who does), this is the book for you.
Download or read book Urbanshee written by Siaara Freeman and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 IPPY Awards - Poetry Gold 2023 IBPA Awards - Poetry Silver 2023 Publishing Triangle Awards Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry - Finalist Urbanshee is Siaara Freeman's retelling of fairy tales and mythological stories through a modern and urban lens. This collection discusses the weight of being Black in America, Freeman's relationships to lovers and family, and how the physical place you grew up can become part of your identity. Urbanshee expertly combines humor, fantasy, and raw emotion to create this astonishing reinvention of classic fables. Freeman's poems are ventrously unique and are sure to enchant anyone who reads them.
Download or read book Not A Lot of Reasons to Sing but Enough written by Kyle Tran Myhre and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OF WHAT FUTURE ARE THESE THE WILD, EARLY DAYS? An exploration of the role that artists play in resisting authoritarianism with a sci-fi twist. In poetry, dialogue and visual art the book follows two wandering poets as they make their way from village to village, across a prison colony moon full of exiled rebels, robots, and storytellers. Part post-apocalyptic road journal, part alternate universe history of Hip Hop, and part “Letters to a Young Poet”-style toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders, it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility. NOT A LOT OF REASONS TO SING is a: -post-apocalyptic road journal -alternate universe history of Hip Hop -“Letters to a Young Poet” -toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility.
Download or read book A Little Bit Worried written by Ciara Gavin and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Weasel is caught in a big, angry storm, he builds a fortress to hide in. But then he meets Mole, who loves to play in the wind and splash in the rain. Can Weasel learn to overcome his fears and find joy, whatever the weather? A perfect story for worriers big and small.
Download or read book Don t Worry Little Crab written by Chris Haughton and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning creator of Shh! We Have a Plan comes a vibrantly colorful story about mustering the courage to try something new. Little Crab and Very Big Crab live in a tiny rock pool near the sea. Today they’re going for a dip in the big ocean. “This is going to be so great,” says Little Crab, splish-splashing and squelch-squelching along, all the way to the very edge. Then comes a first glance down at the waves. WHOOSH! Maybe it’s better if they don’t go in? With vivid colors, bold shapes, and his trademark visual humor, Chris Haughton shows that sometimes a gentle “don’t worry, I’m here” can keep tentative little crabs sidestepping ahead — and help them discover the brilliant worlds that await when they take the plunge.
Download or read book When the Ghosts Come Ashore written by Jacqui Germain and published by Button Poetry. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacqui Germain’s poems in When the Ghosts Come Ashore situate St. Louis as the archetypal American city: it’s here she explores the intersections of race, gender, and violence, here she finds the ghosts of those who still hunger for freedom. But Germain still carves out space for love. As Phillip B. Williams writes of these poems, “Placelessness is the place, leaving only the unsafety of flesh as a hideout. Black presences break from the margins and pierce through these hard lyrics.”
Download or read book Hattie Harmony Worry Detective written by Elizabeth Olsen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! Award-winning actress Elizabeth Olsen and esteemed musician Robbie Arnett have created a fresh approach to wellness in a new series that shows children ways to manage anxiety. A perfect back-to-school read! Meet Hattie Harmony, Worry Detective. She’s always there to help her friends when they need her. And the first day of school can cause a lot of jitters—from speaking in front of the class to taking the bus. Hattie always finds the perfect tools to calm her friends’ bodies and minds. But when her own fears start to bubble up, can Hattie learn to overcome them herself? Critically acclaimed actress Elizabeth Olsen and esteemed musician and writer Robbie Arnett have created an irresistible new character filled with warmth and humor to introduce the youngest readers to the importance of self-care.
Download or read book Revenge Body written by Rachel Wiley and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Stonewall Book Award – Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry Winner 2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Finalist Revenge Body is Rachel Wiley’s third collection of poetry, full of the sharp wit and bold honesty we know and love from Rachel. Wiley invites her readers to join her on a journey filled with righteous anger, Black identity, magic, mental health, navigating maternal relationships, and the love and loss that comes from a breakup.
Download or read book Very Worried Walrus written by and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walrus' worry about having an accident prevents him from riding a bicycle.
Download or read book If He Had Been with Me written by Laura Nowlin and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...
Download or read book Please Come Off Book written by Kevin Kantor and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please Come Off-Book queers the theatrical canon we all grew up with. Kantor critiques the treatment of queer figures and imagines a braver and bolder future that allows queer voices the agency over their own stories. Drawing upon elements of the Aristotelian dramatic structure and the Hero's Journey, Please Come Off-Book is both a love letter to and a scathing critique of American culture and the lenses we choose to see ourselves through.
Download or read book The Don t Worry Book written by Todd Parr and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling and beloved author Todd Parr, a new book that reassures kids everywhere that even when things are scary or confusing, there's always something comforting around the corner. Todd Parr brings his trademark bright colors and bold lines to his new book about things that might make kids worry--from loud news, to loud neighbors, or a big day at school. With his signature humor and instantly recognizable style, Todd speaks out to kids who are feeling the weight of their world, offering solutions and comfort, as well as giggles.
Download or read book So Stranger written by Topaz Winters and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Button Poetry Short Form Poetry Contest Winner Topaz Winters' third poetry collection spans three countries & three generations. In a far-reaching & deftly woven series of ars poeticas, Winters questions the boundary between the things we inherit & those we owe. Topaz arrives at the grave of the American dream, & unspools the enormous grace & guilt of being loved. So, Stranger stands as a fixed mark between the shifting histories & futures of being a daughter, being an artist, & being an immigrant. If its reader begins as a stranger, they end as part of a lineage: one both of grief & glory, of distance & arrival.
Download or read book The Worries written by Jion Sheibani and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Truth Pixie meets Pixar's Inside Out in this hilarious, heartfelt and highly illustrated new series, perfect for helping children gently work through their worries and concentrate on having fun. Everyone feels worried sometimes. But what if your worries came to life and started following you around? Sohal worries about a lot of things - the dark, mutant sheep, not having any friends - you name it, he worries about it! So one night he draws his worries to make himself feel better - and somehow they look a lot less worrying once he's scribbled them down . . . Imagine Sohal's surprise when he wakes up the next morning, and finds a set of funny furry friends at the end of his bed! His worries have come to life, and it's not long before Hurt, Fail, Anger, Big and Alone have turned his world upside down. Now it's up to Sohal to work out how to keep his worries under control - and have some serious fun while he's at it . . .
Download or read book We Were Young written by Fortesa Latifi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book by Fortesa Latifi. In her sophomore collection of poetry, Fortesa revisits themes from past writings with a new maturity. We Were Young explores the heartbreaks, hangovers, and hang ups associated with growing up.
