You Are Your Strong

Soothing and empowering, You Are Your Strong reassures kids that they can handle big emotions and highlights the benefit of developing inner strength and confidence in oneself.

With diverse characters and scenes featuring a range of different family relationships — from parents, to grandparents, to an older sister in the military — this book shows kids that they will have help along the way to being strong and in control.

Includes a Note to Parents and Caregivers by Julia Martin Burch, PhD, with advice for building skills to navigate and cope with big emotions.

Danielle Dufayet teaches English and public speaking/self-empowerment classes for kids. She has a bachelor's in English literature and a master's in psychology.

She was always been drawn to the beauty and simplicity of picture books and attracted by their powerful psychological impact on young minds. She believes that books are magic little gems that can change one's life.

She lives in San Jose, California.

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Jennifer Zivoin is trained in media ranging from figure drawing to virtual reality and earned her bachelor of arts degree with highest distinction from the honors division of Indiana University.

Jennifer worked as a graphic designer and creative director before finding her artistic niche in children's books.

She has illustrated more than 30 books, including Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice and A World of Pausabilities: An Exercise in Mindfulness.

Jennifer lives in Carmel, Indiana.

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• 2020 Teacher’s Choice Awards Winner
• Part of the Little Free Library Action Book Club

You Are Your Strong is a perfect to jump-start conversations with children about their big emotions. It is a good book for families to read together, because parents will find themselves relating and sharing their own stories. This is a book for all ages.
—Children’s Books Heal

This book would be enjoyed by all children, particularly anyone who has ever felt like their emotions are sometimes bigger than they are. For adults reading to children, this book provides a lovely point of connection, to discuss those big emotions in a safe and reassuring way.
—Kids’ Book Review

A great book for helping children (and adults!) understand that they hold the strength they need.
—Katie Reviews Books

This sweet, empowering book is perfect for starting a conversation about coping with strong emotions. We love the gentle way it helps children notice the skills adults use to address their emotional needs, and how it inspires kids to develop their own strategies to cope with everyday aggravations and disappointments.
—Doing Good Together

Hitting a nerve that can at times be very raw and complicated, You Are Your Strong is, at its core, an educational resource for early elementary developmental and therapeutic services.
—New York Journal of Books

If you want a book that empowers exploration of children’s emotions and at the same time helps them develop self-awareness, internalize strength and then use that strength to promote their own calmness, this is the book for you. I highly recommend this valuable book.
—Oregon Coast Youth Book Preview Center

Powerful and affirming.
—Kirkus Reviews

Zivoin’s sculptural art viscerally captures the characters’ emotional highs and lows, while Dufayet’s adjectives-as-nouns conceit is delivered with a soothing lilt.
—Publishers Weekly

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