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The Not-So-Perfect Princess and the Not-So-Dreadful Dragon
A fairy tale about empathy, kindness, diversity, equality, friendship, challenging gender stereotypes and letting kids be whoever they want to be
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Princess Petal is NOT what you would expect the 'perfect' princess to be. In fact, she is quite the opposite! An enchanting tale about friendship, diversity, acceptance and being exactly who we are meant to be. Discussion Questions included.
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Meet the amazing Princess Petal! Who is absolutely NOT what you would expect a 'perfect' princess to be. In fact, Princess Petal is quite the opposite. Her princess dresses are torn and scruffy, she wears an old woolly hat instead of a golden crown, and she is very (very) loud.
So when Princess Petal meets a fire-breathing dragon while hiking in the forest, both are in for a bit of a shock! An enchanting tale about friendship, diversity, acceptance, and being exactly who we are meant to be.
The moral behind this story is imperative yet simple: we are all different and that's okay, making judgements and assumptions about people is NOT okay, and all genders should be treated equally.
Comprehensive Discussion Questions for parents, caregivers, and educators are included to help unpack this important topic with children.
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ISBN: 9781925089448
Publisher: UpLoad Publishing Pty Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 August 2019
Country: Australia
Imprint: UpLoad Publishing Pty Ltd
Illustration: Full colour
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 215.0mm
Height: 279.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 40
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Jayneen Sanders
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About the Author
Jayneen Sanders (aka Jay Dale) is an experienced Australian early years educator, children’s book author and publisher. She began her teaching career in the 1980s as a primary school teacher in rural Queensland, Australia. She then moved to Melbourne, Victoria, and taught at several inner-city schools. In 1985, Jayneen had a change of career and became an educational editor and publisher. In the early 90s, Jayneen and her partner moved to Japan to work as English teachers. They lived and worked in Japan for over three and a half years. In fact, Jayneen's first daughter was born there. On returning to Australia, Jayneen began working as an educational author/packager. Since then, she has authored and produced numerous award-winning titles for the educational publishing industry. Jayneen is also an accomplished children's book author, writing titles for literacy series such as ZigZags, Totally Kidz, Deadly and Incredible, and a children's picture book series for Penguin. Jayneen is currently the lead author of the literacy series ‘Engage Literacy’ published by Capstone. She has written over 150 titles for that series. Jayneen is a mother of three daughters and was a school councillor at her local school for over seven years. This time spent in schools both as a teacher and a parent inspired her to ask the question of her community: 'What are we doing in schools to protect our children from inappropriate touch?' When she realised very little was being done, she decided to use her authoring and publishing skills to write 'Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept' to help parents, carers and teachers to broach this subject and encourage children to speak up. After the encouraging response to 'Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept', Jayneen realised there was a need to further build upon the idea of prevention education. Jayneen participated in Protective Behaviours professional development and attended numerous conferences on the topic to educate herself in how to keep children safe and provide them with age-appropriate and empowering body safety and consent education. Jayneen then went on to develop and publish a comprehensive Body Safety and Respectful Relationship Teacher's Resource Kit as well as writing many more children's books on the topics of body safety, consent, respect, gender equality, social and emotional intelligence, and diversity and inclusion. Jayneen currently works with her partner, Mark Sanders to run Educate2Empower Publishing. Her ongoing passion for the safety and empowerment of children continues today, with new manuscripts and free-to-download resources always in the wings.
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