Inclusion, Internet Safety, Neurodiversity

 Ethan's Healthy Mind Express: 

A Children's First Mental Health Primer

Gold Medal Winner: 

Best Children's Educational

2022 American Writing Awards

TEACHERS & PARENTS!

"Takeaway: This beautifully illustrated picture book about troubling thoughts, feelings, moods, and urges will help teachers start conversations about supporting friends through mental and emotional challenges. Great for fans of Elizabeth Swados's My Depression, Shaun Tan's The Red Tree."

-- Publisher's Weekly, Booklife, 

August 17, 2020 

Available to libraries through 

Baker & Taylor

8.5 x 8.5 hardcover:  9781734474459

 Available via Amazon:

8.5 x 8.5 paperback or 

Kindle eBook. 

Also available as an 

8.5 x 8.5 hardcover via 

Barnes & Noble!

Also includes lessons on the dark web, 

neurodiversity, mental health support, and inclusion.

All award-winning images 

hand-cut from paper sourced globally 

by Illustrator Gail Gorske

 Ethan's Healthy Mind Express 

Excerpt, p. 34

"Not everything you read online is true.
Some people will tell you
wrong or unsafe things to do.
 

If you are confused, ask someone you trust.
Confirming the truth is always a must."

 Ethan's Healthy Mind Express: 

A Children's First Mental Health Primer 

2nd Best in Education/Illustrations

2020 Royal Dragonfly Book Award: 

Story Monsters Magazine Literary Contest

The 403 Engine barrels through the social influences from the time we are born through today: Family, Faith, Friends, School, Community, and the Media. There's many twists and turns. The train ride is a lesson on supporting one another. Lessons include neurodiversity, inclusion, peer and adult support.

For years The Royal Dragonfly Book Award from Story Monsters Magazine, Inc. has been judging the quality of children's books in their annual nationally recognized contest. This certificate documents our 2020 2nd Place for Illustrations/Photography.

The 42-page rhyming picture book earned another certificate for 2nd Place in Education. 

Ethan's Healthy Mind Express 

Excerpt, p. 14

"Evan needs help to learn no matter how hard he tries.

His brain works differently than most other guys.

He wants to know everything the teacher has to say, 

but it's hard to pay attention in class every day."

Ethan's Healthy Mind Express 

Excerpt, p.32

"We have now come

to a bump in the track.

It’s called the dark web,

but we cannot turn back.

Do not seek advice

even if they act like they care.

They are still strangers

so always beware."