Tannis L. Casement-Clark / Tannis LCasement-Clark
Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Kind Heart is not so much an in-your-face anti-bullying book. It’s more about how parents raise their children to be kind to all people, no matter the color of their skin, if they have a disability or if they’re different from other kids. The main character has a birth defect, but he never lets this get in his way, and he constantly sticks up for the underdog or a classmate that is different from others. I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, in the ’60s where prejudice was rampant. I grew up Protestant in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood. Our family became friends with neighborhood families whom were Catholic. When I was five or six, one of our family friends told me I couldn’t play with them because I wasn’t Catholic. I was crushed. I thought something was wrong with me because I wasn’t Catholic! This affected me greatly and is part of the reason I wrote this book. Sometimes we meet, or grow up with people we may think will be a good role model -instead they give us a model of how not to be!
