Children & Youth

Ophelia’s Oracle is a delightful story of a 12-year-old girl who explores her emerging sense of self . . . Ophelia is told ancient feminine stories by caring and supportive women in her life, and through her own experiences, learns the importance of these stories today. She discovers her deep connection to the natural world. She learns to love and...

Professionals with decades of experience working in the field, Larry K. Brendtro, Martin L. Mitchell and Herman J. McCall set out to demonstrate how combining brain research, human values and practice expertise can lead to success with at-risk youth. Much has been written about educating and working with challenging children, but whats often missing from those theories are what...

Bring out the best in your kids! "How is it they can get a killer whale to urinate on cue, and we can't get our son to pee into the toilet?" Amy Sheldrake, young mother and killer whale trainer-in-training, marvels at the complex behaviors her superiors at SeaWorld are able to coax out of these enormous beasts, while she and...

In her book, The Santa Story Revisited: How to Give Your Children a Santa They Will Never Outgrow, Arita Trahan offers good news! She introduces an expanded Santa story -- with all of the magic and none of the pretense. Both memoir and how-to book, Trahan presents a compassionate and encouraging examination of the cultural phenomenon that is Santa...

Eight-year-old Melinda Carson hopes to keep herself awake until the wee hours of the morning on December 25 to make sure that she sees Santa. She’s waited every year, but this year she makes it! Santa's arrival is witnessed! And furthermore, she gets to talk with Santa himself! And that’s when things get interesting. For among the things the two...