Just Because

Just Because is a heart-warming picture book by Rebecca Elliott, telling the delightful story of a brother's love for his sister. 'My big sister Clemmie is my best friend. She can't walk, talk, move around much, cook macaroni, pilot a plane, juggle or do algebra. I don't know why she doesn't do these things. Just because.' This charming picture book covers the issue of disability in a unique and beautiful celebration of sibling friendship to which all children can relate. The brother delights in telling us about just how special his sister is and about all the fun things they do together. This amusing and often touching story encompasses the issue of disability in a charming celebration of sibling friendship to which all children can relate.

Curious minds are rewarded with curious answers in a fantastical bedtime book by Mac Barnett and Isabelle Arsenault. Why is the ocean blue? What is the rain? What happened to the dinosaurs? It might be time for bed, but one child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep just yet. Little ones and their parents will be charmed and delighted as a patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child’s nighttime wonderings. Any child who has ever asked “Why?” — and any parent who has attempted an explanation — will recognize themselves in this sweet storybook for dreamers who are looking for answers beyond “Just because.”

Young children need support and encouragement as they learn to value themselves and recognize their own worth--"not because of the things I do, not because of what I look like, not because of what I have . . . just because I am." This book of sweet, simple affirmations for children helps them respect their bodies, acknowledge their own needs, and name their feelings. Just Because I Am invites little ones to love, accept, and feel good about themselves exactly as they are. A special section for parents, teachers, and caregivers includes activities and discussion questions to use with children.

ÿ A collection of poems, aphorisms and observations about people and feelings, love and loss, want and desire, happiness and sadness, childhood and being grown up, how people look and how they really are deep inside. Just because I?m quiet it doesn?t mean I don?t have a lot to say. Just because I appear happy it doesn?t mean everything?s OK. Just because I forgive it doesn?t mean I forget. Just because I don?t listen it doesn?t mean I can?t hear what you say. And just because I don?t show you my feelings it doesn?t mean that I don?t care.

The life changing moment when Lisa’s 21-year-old sister Zoie, and Zoie’s 26-year-old partner James, died in a shocking car accident, is now memorialised by a beautiful oak tree. But Lisa then lost her 31-year-old husband Andrew to suicide, and her 32-year-old younger brother Justin to brain cancer. Faced with compounded grief from the untimely death of loved ones as well as a myriad of other losses, Lisa embarked on a journey of self-healing and renewal. Just Because acts as a measure of wisdom about the often unspoken but universal topics of loss and grief, depression, suicide, miscarriage, Alzheimer’s Disease and the loss of a loved one to COVID-19. These candid pages offer comfort, warmth, honesty, hope and humour, as well as strategies for healing in the belief that loss and grief change your life, but they do not define you. Just Because is a self-help memoir infused with unwavering accounts of how all sense of meaning in life may be lost, but we can manage our loss and grief to reshape and renew our own lives.

Stanley & Liza Rogers' intentions are clear in these heartening and solicitous poems. They embrace the fact that we need to live and value the "now" instead of the "later." They give new significance to the cliché "take the time to love each other, while we all have the opportunity to say thank you to each other." So many of us never recognize what we have lost until it is too late. That is why it is essential that we always articulate our intentions to our loved ones-Just Because.

This volume gives children an exciting birds-eye-view of Gods plan unfolding as He prepares the world for the coming of Jesus Christ. Each chapter takes about 20 minutes to read and ends with a short Biblical lesson.

A person gets to be who they are from lifes experiences. We learn how to balance and overcome trials from experience, but even when its unfamiliar, we still seek the knowledge that we hold. In order to do that you must understand who you are as a whole, where you came from and how you got where you are today. Nothing should ever hold you back and no one should ever have the power to. We are who we are and the best way to be that way is to be confident and proud. Although my childhood was anything but easy, I would not be who I am and where I am today if it were any other way. Same goes with the trials I have endured. All the knowledge I hold, I believe to be wisdom and I wish to share with as many as possible to make their experiences that much easier. As a single mother, I feel I have accomplished most of what I have wanted to do, but I still will be out there fighting for more. Nothing is ever easy, but at the end of the day, the feel of success and accomplishment is well worth the effort. So Im going to share with you how I came to be who I am today and what I learned on the way.