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The Well of Being: a children's book for adults is artist Jean-Pierre Weill's first book and a pioneering endeavor to bring a child's perspective to serious adult literature. [1] The book combines the gravity of adult issues such as the pursuit of well-being and self-actualization with the levity of a picture book and the disinhibition of a child.
Hope for the Flowers is an allegorical novel by Trina Paulus. It was first published in 1972 and reflects the idealism of the counterculture of the period. Often categorized as a children's novel, it is a fable "partly about life, partly about revolution and lots about hope – for adults and others including caterpillars who can read".
Penguin Books revived the Ladybird Books brand, which had achieved iconic status publishing 646 classic pocket-sized mini-hardback children's books between the 1940s and the 1980s, in 2015 with a series of spoof books called Ladybird for Grown Ups which paired classic illustrations with new text written by TV comedy writers Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris to great commercial success.
Rae Wynn-Grant, wildlife ecologist, author, and host of 'Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom,' shares diverse books about our diverse planet.
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Dutch: De Meeste Mensen Deugen: Een Nieuwe Geschiedenis van de Mens) is a 2019 non-fiction book by Dutch historian Rutger Bregman. It was published by Bloomsbury in May 2021. [4] It argues that people are decent at heart and proposes a new worldview based on the corollaries of this optimistic view of human beings.
Chicken Soup for the Soul is a series of books, usually featuring a collection of short, inspirational stories and motivational essays. The 101 stories in the first book of the series were compiled by motivational speakers Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. There have been numerous volumes of Chicken Soup issued.
Hopepunk describes works such as books, movies, and television shows, that reveal hope in the face of challenges and act as a counter to pessimism. [7] Scholar Elin Kelsey describes it as "a narrative of positive resistance" and contrasts it with noblebright , which takes as its premise that not only are there good fights worth fighting, but ...
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