We Are All Different: And We Are All Right

By Elisabeth Norman Gardner and Rachel R. Lindsey

We Are ALL Different combines my love of children and pets into a real-life look at bullying. I use my own animals, as well as those of friends, to explain to children just how much bullying hurts. Even something that seems harmless, like laughing at someones freckles, is portrayed as the real pain that is felt when my Dalmatian is shown hiding her face in embarrassment and hurt. Several of the animals in the book are having to deal with mean comments made by classmates. The overall message that is conveyed is that everyone is different, everyone is beautiful and everyone is worthy of being loved.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Apr 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504908184

Elisabeth Norman Gardner

Elisabeth is a freelance writer and poet, spending much of her free time working in animal rescue and flying transports for Pilots n Paws. She has seen how the lost and thrown-away pets that no one wanted thrive when they were placed in loving homes. Her book is based on her own cat, Frankie, who she adopted from a high-kill shelter at eleven years of age and thirty-five pounds. This is her first book. Additional Frankie books, her own animals dealing with real-people problems, are currently in the works. Her hope is that children can associate, through her animals, how much words can hurt. How we are all different, and it is all right! Elisabeth and her husband, Paul, live in Prattville, Alabama, with three other rescue cats and four rescue dogs. They have five children and five grandchildren. Photo credit Connie Collum photography, LLC

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