The Bravest Hearts: Empowering Our Friends

Jayne E. Sbarboro

ISBN 10: 0999242040 / ISBN 13: 9780999242049

Published by Montgomery, Denver, Colorado, 2019

About this Item

Inscribed on the title page by the author. [67] p., fully illustrated in color; publisher's illustrated promotional leaflet laid in loosely at front [otob: 6] Size: Oversize.

Seller Inventory # 206689

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bravest Hearts: Empowering Our Friends
• Publisher: Montgomery, Denver, Colorado
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0999242040
• ISBN 13: 9780999242049
• Binding: Pictorial Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Wendy Leach
• Edition: Stated First Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Issued Without Dust Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed By the Author

About this title

Synopsis

Children are bullied every day. Parents and teachers miss the opportunities to intervene because bullying is most often done in secret. Kids witness these injustices. When they see a friend or classmate hurting and don't know what to do about it, they hurt too. The Bravest Hearts is for these children. The adorable characters in this story learn to practice bravery and stand up for their friends. Their teacher, Miss Work, leads her students to understand how to become brave, and she encourages them to use their hearts to help their friends. Following a math lesson where Miss Work teaches her students about equality, the students witness bullying for the third time. They realize that, together, they can stand up to the hurtful words of the bully. They learn that they will put more good into the world if they work together. An important book for every third through fifth grade student.

About the Authors

After being an elementary school principal for six years and addressing bullies with restorative justice practices, Jayne Sbarboro learned that the most important effort is always to first RESTORE THE CHILD who has been hurt. This was the subject of her first book, "The Truest Heart." The second most important thing is to teach children how to stand up for each other when an adult isn't nearby. Using story writing to empower children, especially those who have been targeted by bullying, she chooses to focus exclusively on the importance of using strength-based practices to increase children's resilience. In "The Bravest Hearts--A Story to Empower Our Friends," which is the sequel to the Truest Heart, she shows students how to work together to overcome bullying. She also co-authored "Miss Work's Truest Heart Companion: An Anti-bullying Guide" with her niece, Francesca Sbarboro, who is the model for Miss Work these books. Jayne chose to make Miss Work African American because she believes we need more African-American teachers.

Wendy Leach is an author and illustrator from Overland Park, Kansas (just a jump, hop and a skip away from Kansas City). Wendy graduated with a BFA in painting from the University of Missouri. Along with a prior collaboration illustrating The Truest Heart, Wendy wrote and illustrated Francis-the story of a lovable monster who goes on a hilarious journey of misplaced love. She illustrated I Campaigned for Ice Cream by Suzanne Jacobs Lipshaw, and has done illustrations and artwork for other community projects.