This superb book’s message is to respect and love yourself- no matter what. Everyone is worthy of being loved. Acceptance of self is so important, and at times hard. The important question many ask is- am I good enough? This book answers that question with an unqualified YES! Diversity should be respected and everyone should be accepted for who they are. It feels so good to hear someone say, “I believe in you.” It is a matter of high importance to believe in yourself. This is a great book for teaching children about self-esteem. Children will love this story and find it relatable. This fun book for ages 3-9 teaches children about how to appreciate what they already have instead of being jealous of what others have. Children will enjoy being reminded to choose themselves instead of wishing to be like someone else. The concepts are taught in a simple and direct way that children can understand. It is a serious theme that is taught in a delightful manner. It is fun to view the illustrations and read about the characters in this meaningful book about self-esteem and appreciation. It is a great message for all children and well worth discussing with them. It is important to teach children about character building, and to reinforce the concept of acceptance of self and of others, and of self worth. It is a profound theme that is told in a captivating and humorous way. Read more

Living in Justin Flaherty’s mind has never been easy. Unfortunately, things are about to get much worse… At eighteen years old, most guys are chasing girls or dreams. Justin, on the other hand, wants to draw and be left alone. He’s been diagnosed with schizophrenia, but it’s more than that. He’s in tune with the Dark Energy that surrounds us all, and can see how it controls people’s actions. Sometimes, the Dark Energy will give him visions, to help him on the road to enlightenment. When his mother hooks up with a Baptist preacher named David who believes Justin’s schizophrenia can be cured with prayer, Justin knows he has to get out—or risk involuntary commitment in a religious facility. After a brush with incarceration, Justin takes off to San Francisco, where his drawings are not just noticed, but admired… Justin’s bizarre and beautiful drawings create a stir in the art world. Meanwhile, he’s homeless, couch surfing, and trapped in a continuous battle with his mental illness. His salvation is a girl named Liria Czetski with a shady past. They’d met a year ago, and she’s appeared in his visions ever since. It turns out Liria has been sharing those visions, something that is a surprise to everyone but Justin… When secrets surface, Justin is forced to realize that being a genius has a downside. Surrounded by people who want to exploit his talent, he must fight not only for his career and freedom, but perhaps for his life… Read more

Would you like to learn to read and speak Chinese? Then this video course is for you! Hanzi Gong uses the Shuangfa method to bring Chinese characters to life! You learn what the characters REALLY mean & how the characters are combined to form other characters. YOU Can read Chinese!This is how you learn Chinese: First, you learn the pictograms, which are pictures of literal objects. Second you learn the ideograms, which are symbols of abstract concepts. Third you learn the combined concept characters, where two characters are combined to express a third concept common to both. All these are by sight reading, they are not phonetic.FOURTH AND FINALLY, you learn the pictophonetic characters, which combine at least a phonetic clue with a semantic key.Pictophonetic characters are the greatest amount of characters but are also less frequent than the other characters. You can’t learn or understand them until you’ve learned the other three character classes because they are formed from them!http://tinyurl.com/pictogrampalaceplaylistThis book breaks down Chinese characters into their pictographic, phonetic, and semantic elements. Presented as digital flash cards for easy memorization! Free preview lets you see for yourself! Over 2000 different Chinese characters provides the building blocks for basic Chinese literacy.Learn to read a new language! Impress your colleagues, friends, and family! Learn the language spoken by over a billion people and the world’s fastest rising economic and political power.The world’s oldest writing system, the world’s first civilization, and the world’s most popular language are unlocked for YOU in this simple entertaining book which is keyed as character sequences following the Shuangfa Method for Chinese literacy pioneered in Bai Shuangfa’s (白双发) “Hanzi Gong”. 汉字宫.Learn more at: http://amazon.com/author/quizmaster Also available as a paperback with characters sequentially presented as character groups rather than individually. Color coded to each characters tone. http://tinyurl.com/pictogrampalacepaperback Thank you for reading , I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Will you please consider writing a review? Even just a few words would help others decide if the book is right for them. It’s easy: just click this link and you’ll travel to the Amazon review page for this book where you can make your review. Best regards and thank you in advance! http://www.Amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/write-a-review.html?asin=B07PG5G8DN The mythical Cang Jie, who invented the Chinese characters, is brought to life to teach You! Chinese started out as pictograms: pictures of literal objects! It’s Just pictures! These pictures however became stylized and standardized and simplified to make writing easier. The pictures and symbols of the simplest characters are then combined and recombined to form pictophonetic characters which have have sound clue and lots of symbolid meaning. It’s a great puzzle and real joy because each character has an inner logic that conveys meaning. Chinese is basically sight reading by syllables, and once you understand to start with the pictograms, that it’s all sight readings, and that the phonetic clues are syllables not letters it becomes a wonderful adventure! http://tinyurl.com/pictogrampalace http://tinyurl.com/pictogrampalacepaperbackhttp://tinyurl.com/pictogrampalaceplaylist Read more