Books
Marshmallow Magic Smart Senses Series: For Ages 6-12
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The Biggest Order Ever
From their dream-come-true backyard tree fort bakery, can Mila, Maci, and Maia stay positive as they face challenges with their biggest pop order ever and save Mrs. Bradley’s reading event?
The trio of girls unite to navigate tricky pop shop snafus as well as third-grade social dilemmas. What creative idea will they discover to inspire their classmate Parker, who has dyslexia, as well as countless readers across their Midwest neighborhood?
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Saving Spring Soccer
Mila, Maci, and Maia unite and use empathy to understand why Karli—the best soccer player at recess—won’t join Maci on the Westmont Bears.
Since Karli’s dad left, she’s been doing her best to help her hardworking single mom, but sometimes the pressure at home spills out into mean behavior at school. Can the girls befriend Karli and convince her to help the Bears win the annual Westmont Cup Tournament?
Snowball Showdown
This holiday season, Mila’s heading up the Westmont Elementary student council, which is raising money for the big Snowball Showdown.
The tallest student in third grade—Emma—is in charge of advertising the event, but she’s getting tired of people only noticing her for her height. To make things worse, snowballs aren’t selling for the event, and no one knows why. Will the student council see Emma’s true talents and trust her creative ideas to save the event? Can the girls stay positive in this winter wonderland of a story and discover what true holiday spirit is all about before it’s too late?
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Reviews
Debbie Zeichner LCSW, Parent Coach and Mindfulness Instructor
As a parent coach supporting parents in raising kids who are kind, compassionate, empathetic and inclusive, it was such a pleasure to find and read, Marshmallow Magic: The Biggest Order Ever. This sweet book is full of important themes such as friendship, teamwork, problem solving, appreciating and accepting differences, inclusivity and more!
This story about a young girl with food allergies who learns to "look on the bright side" and find positive ways to deal with challenging feelings, offers inspiration and hope for young readers who may feel different or alone in whatever they are dealing with.
I loved the way the characters supported each other as they worked together to solve a challenge and how focused they were on recognizing when others needed acknowledgment and support as well. I especially loved the creative use of vocabulary words and definitions!
I highly recommend this book to any parent, teacher or caregiver and look forward to sharing it with other families.
TY WEBB
Parent
Entertaining and heart warming story of friendship and perseverance
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My kindergartener, second grader and I have been reading a chapter or two a night for the last week and each night they want me to keep reading. They can’t wait to see how the biggest order ever comes together.
The book touches on important themes like empathy for others and self awareness. We’ve been talking about Positive Peepers and Body Bonkers all week. And you know what? It actually came in handy when my daughter came home upset and left out of a play date. We talked about her ability to put on some Positive Peepers and it made her smile and relax.
We fell in love with the three girls in the story and look forward to the future books!
KARYN
parent
Finally! A book with kind and empathetic characters - Highly recommended
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As a mother of 8 year old daughters, I am always looking for books with characters who are kind and a story that is assessible. This is it! Three friends work together (in their bakery). The characters each have their own strengths, and they support one another with kindness and encouragement (no jealously). Plus, the parents are shown as loving and helpful (there is no "snarky" in this story!). One of the characters has food allergies, so the author weaves in this concept, modeling for young readers how they can accept and empower themselves.
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Throughout the book and in the glossary, the author includes 5 "Smart Senses" - practical steps that children can use when they are faced with a life challenge (all age-appropriate).
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My daughters LOVE this story, and as a mother (and teacher) I am thrilled to have found a new series that "shows by example" how we can have empathy for ourselves and for others.
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I highly recommend this series and would give it 10 stars if I could.
SHANE BELLON
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful story with wonderful characters!
I'm a PA at SoCal Food Allergy Institute/
Immunology Research Center who works directly with children to treat food allergies and I absolutely love this story and the characters! Food allergies are often a poorly understood condition that kids suffer from, but it goes so far beyond the simple dangers of eating peanuts (or other foods).
Kids often can't socialize with their friends and do normal kid-things like go to birthday parties, baseball games, and they often can't even eat at the same table as their peers! This book does a wonderful job of showing what food allergies can be like and I hope it can show other kids with this condition they are not alone.
Empathy goes a long way! A+++!