Princess Shayna's Invisible Visible Gift

The heroine, of this a timely and timeless story, is a princess whose loving parents teacher her to be a strong, independent, and self-confident young woman, whom girls and boys alike, can emulate and respect.

Through their journey with Princess Shayna and relating to the different characters and villages in the book, they discovered the value of family bonds, open lines of communication in a wide range of settings, their attributes and abilities, and thinking/learning styles.

At the end of the book, you will find a Gift Giver's Guide with questions for each chapter designed to help adults start a conversation with their children and encourage children to talk about how the story relates to their own lives. Inner strength and self-reliance will grow from the readers' and listeners' identification with the characters in the story.

As a reader or listener, adult or child, this book will help you:
1. Discover and understand more about yourself and others
2. Reduce and redirect bully behavior
3. Value your worthiness and capabilities
3. Appreciate and accept individuals' differences
4. Share a "color" language to express your thoughts and feelings and defuse conflicts
5.  Create harmonious relationships in every facet of your life

These skills will build a firm foundation from which children and adults can learn to
solve their problems and savor their joys while on their life-long journey of self-discovery.

Every child deserves to feel loved, safe, encouraged, and confident within a trustworthy
home, school, and community environment!

The book helps children discover their personality type and Praiseworthy Gifts.
Children rarely are offered opportunities to identify their own personality traits and
talents.

The four villages in the story correspond to the four Brain Colors in Sheila Glazov's What Color Is Your Brain?® book.

You do not have to be perfect to be loved. No one is perfect, not even Princess Shayna! The princess has diabetes, an insidious worldwide epidemic. She learns to manage the daily challenges of diabetes because of her healthy level of self-esteem and loving encouragement from her family.

Children relate to story characters to solve their problems. Reading Princess Shayna uses Bibliotherapy, which is the effective use of a story to teach life's lessons and deal with problems through examples of characters to whom the reader and/or listener can relate.

This book helps to reduce and redirect bully behavior, which has become an epidemic.Because bullying has become such a serious problem, there is a need for an alternative approach to modify and redirect this negative behavior. Within the story of Princess Shayna,valuable tools are provided to help students find the skills that are necessary to change their inappropriate behavior.The individuals will learn to value and accept themselves, realize their capabilities and gifts, and accept others, even if their perspective is different.This will be the beginning of their journey toward appropriate behavior and a healthier level of self-esteem.