The Twinklers: A Guide to Life

(Hardback)

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How children can stay true to themselves, overcome their fear of being made fun of, and begin to find their purpose in life.

The Twinklers is a self-help book for kids. Taking children seriously, it provides a refreshing take on many common dilemmas faced by school-age kids, and offers practical suggestions on how to best manage these problems. Children will recognize the familiar characters who populate their world and acquire the tools they need to stand up for themselves while still being kind. Parents, increasingly under pressure to produce high achievers, will enjoy a reminder of what really matters: making the world better in our own unique way and without needing to put others down.

Author Bio

Wendy Shalit received her BA in philosophy from Williams College. Her essays on literary and cultural topics have appeared in the The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications.

As a child born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wendy loved to make clay figurines and dance in local theater productions. But she was also fascinated by the behavior of other kids. Why were some kind, while others were mean and even made up stories about others

Today, Wendy and her husband have three children, ranging in age from ten to eighteen. The bedtime story that she used to tell them when they were younger is the book that you are now holding in your hand.

After many years as a storyboard artist for animation studios like Walt Disney, Nickelodeon, and Warner Bros., Tina Kgler is currently a character layout artist on The Simpsons.

Tina wrote and illustrated Snail and Worm, a beginning-reader series about two small friends (Houghton Mifflin Books for Young Readers). The second book in the series, Snail and Worm Again, received a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor. Tina also created Fox Tails, an early-reader series with Scholastic Press.

Tina lives in Los Angeles with her husband, three sons, two cats, one frantically exuberant dog, and a cranky lizard.

Wendy and Tina have been friends since high school in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, where their first collaboration, at age sixteen, was a literary magazine called Out of the Blue.