SHY AND MIGHTY: Your Shyness is a Superpower
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RIGHTS SOLD: World Rights All Languages/DK - pub date 7 April 2022
SHY AND MIGHTY is for shy kids, aged 7-9, and their parents.
Our noisy world sometimes feels like it's not made for shy people. This book will help children understand shyness and find their inner voice.
Shyness is often misunderstood. It's not a personality flaw, it's a complex trait with many positive aspects. However, shyness means many kids struggle to speak up in class, get involved in activities, make friends, put themselves forward, and compete. As a result they can miss out on exciting opportunities, and are often overlooked, ignored, and sidelined... but it doesn't have to be this way.
This is brand new book that offers an insightful way of looking at the subject that will comfort and reassure shy children and can help them to overcome the aspects of their shyness that are holding them back, without pretending to be something they're not.
Featured in the pages of this heartwarming book, you can find:
Practical advice aimed at 7-9 year olds on how to take small steps to achieve your dreams, how to work with other -people, and ways to get your views heart
Bright, fun illustration helps to digest complex topics like understanding body language and appearing more confident
Features relatable, and often challenging situations but offers activities, solutions, and coping strategies for children
The book is divided into two sections Shy (which is about understanding shyness) and Mighty (how to thrive with your shyness)
A must-have volume for shy children aged 7 to 9, this inspiring book can also come in handy for parents, carers, educators and even librarians who are seeking to understand the challenges faced by shy kids, and equip them with skills to feel braver and to thrive in social situations.
I’m Nadia Finer and I’m on a softly-spoken mission to help shy people be more mighty, so they can speak up, and live a bigger life, without having to change who they really are.
I’m a shy kid who became a shy + mighty adult. I’m not one of those loud, confident people here to lecture you about how you need to step up and be more confident. Far from it.
I know what it’s like to struggle with shyness. My shyness started because of my little voice. You see, all my life I’ve had a little voice. Really little. Sounding like a really little kid has made me very self-conscious and shy.
Sometimes it feels like my shyness is keeping me small and getting in the way of me living my life.
But then I realised something. It’s part of me. It’s part of who I am. So, I’ve decided to embrace my shyness and see it as a super-power, rather than a weakness or a problem. We shy people don’t need fixing. We don’t need to change who we are. There is a place for quiet, confident success.
Nadia Finer is the co-author of the career guide More to Life Than Shoes: How to Kick-start Your Career and Change Your Life (published by Hay House in 2011) and the author of business book Little Me Big Business (Morgan James 2018). Nadia is also writing a book for shy adults, Shy and Mighty, published by Quercus in April 2022.
