Welcome to Litsy!

“It's okay to be scared, but it's also okay to find ways to make it less scary.“

In my classroom, this book can help students understand emotional growth, encourage discussions about coping mechanisms, and emphasize the importance of friendship and creativity in personal development.

This book was published in 2020 and is a graphic novel that blends contemporary fiction with elements of mental health and healing. It follows Manuel, a middle schooler recovering from a traumatic experience, as he navigates his anxiety through photography and forms new friendships with classmates. The book explores themes of resilience, self-expression, and the power of art in overcoming fear.

I am finding this man to be incredibly interesting now that I'm focusing on him through biography type reads. This #chunkster although a little dry in some areas was overall quite the page turner. #bookspin @thearomaofbooks

Completed both my #bookspin and #doublespin for August! Moo was a light and sweet story in both verse and prose of a family transitioning from city to country life and coming to love a stubborn cow named Zora. The Golden Hour was heavier graphic novel in that the MC is experiencing PTSD after a shooting. He anchors himself by taking photos and cautiously makes friends with kids involved in 4-H. I enjoyed them both! 🐮

@TheAromaofBooks

A graphic novel and a second sleeve. #litsycrafters

Manuel is struggling with anxiety after he is a witness to gun violence. He uses photography to help him cope and it helps keep him grounded. But then he is teamed up with Sebastian and Caysha for a group project. Manuel agrees to help his friends with photos for the county fair that they are going to be in. He learns to open up to his friends as he confronts his deepest fears and even finds his first love. This graphic novel was a quick read!

A well written engrossing read. I loved the preamble and I think the only time I found it a bit hard to get through was the section on all the WW1 military tactics. That is probably just my general interest in military tactics in that much detail. 😂😂
The book has given me such an appreciation of the man that he was - his foibles as well as his strengths, also a better understanding of the main players in British politics. 👇

Somehow I have always thought that Winston Churchill's favourite dog were bulldogs as he was pictured with them alot. #TIL that his favourite dog were miniature brown poodles - Rufus (who was unfortunately run down when a maid left him off his leash) and Rufus II. The dogs ate with the family and no one ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.
#nfn2020

This book has been sitting on my shelf for a while (together with its Part 2 and 3) but the size is intimidating.... Will 2021 be the year I decide to read it? #chunkster

One of the best biographies I've read. And only Volume 1.

"If you cannot read all your books at any rate handle, or, as it were, fondle them peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on their shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you will at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances."