CAROLINE, Alberta, Dec. 3, 2009 — Many children will face anxieties about their first day of preschool, wondering what it will be like, if their teacher will be nice and if they will make new friends. In her reassuring new children's book, "The Girl Who Tamed Her Wonder Worm" (published by AuthorHouse), Rose Brenda Lavis offers parents an important new resource for helping their children cope with those familiar first-day jitters. Lavis writes:
This book is bright and colorful; this is every child's story. We have all sat on the sidelines in life at times. This story provides inspiration for parents and children to create their own successes through guidance and non-negotiable expectations. This story is an inspiration for any child who is reluctant to try something new or for children who may have difficulty in following something they start to the end.
"The Girl Who Tamed Her Wonder Worm" is the true story of the range of emotions experienced by the Lavis' young daughter and upon signing up for playschool. At first, her daughter, Jill, is a happy, giggling 4-year-old girl with anticipation in her tummy. Her excitement turns to wondering what playschool would be like and if she would like it. The happy wondering changes to uncertainty, and uncertainty leads to worrying. Jill's playschool time was spent holding on to her mother's leg, watching the other children have fun because she was too afraid to join in. Watching her daughter's mood shift, Lavis notices the butterfly in her daughter's tummy change from fluttering its wings to folding them, and then finally loosing them altogether. Lavis writes:
There had been so many Wednesdays and so many wondering worry days that the little butterfly in her tummy had not only closed his wings he no longer had wings at all. The little butterfly, which made her giggle, had turned from a happy fluttering butterfly into a wonder worry worm. It was not possible to whoosh and giggle with a wonder worm in your tummy.
Jill was crying with her wonder worm curled up in her tummy. Her mother asked what was wrong. Jill told her mother that she did not want to go to playschool. She wanted to stay home and play in her own back yard with the kids she knew.
About the Author
Rose Brenda Lavis was born in Calgary, Alberta in Canada. She is also the creator and author of multiple children's books, learning materials, and seminars for adults and children. She is currently creating an educational program for children which will include each of her four children's books she has written ). She lives and works on her acreage near the Village of Caroline in Alberta, Canada.
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