Helen's World E-Book

Helen Yigzaw

• Herausgeber: tredition
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 49

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Meet Helen: a wide-eyed, big-hearted, cheerful girl who loves to discover new things about her world. Whether she is enlivening the school day with tickets for prizes she has gathered from her home, collecting snails for their beautiful shimmering colors, or rescuing a lost dog, she fills everything she does with enthusiasm. And although she also sometimes makes mistakes, she is able to learn from them, thanks to her secure relationships with family and friends. These charming and beautifully illustrated stories aim to inspire children to explore the big, wide world with positivity and confidence, because teaching children social and emotional resilience equips them to lead a more confident and resourceful life.

Leseprobe

Helen Yigzaw

Helen’s World

Stories for Children

Translated from the German by Melody Shaw

Copyright: © 2023: Helen Yigzaw

Umschlag & Satz: Erik Kinting – www.buchlektorat.net

Illustrationen: © Frank Robyn-Fuhrmeister

Publisher:

Verlag und Druck:

tredition GmbH

An der Strusbek 10

22926 Ahrensburg

Softcover

978-3-347-91634-0

Hardcover

978-3-347-91635-7

E-Book

978-3-347-91636-4

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher and author.

For my mother,

Kibra Josief.

Mama, without you, I wouldn’t be

the person I am today.

Thank you for your serenity, your patience,

and above all, your love.

I love you with all my heart.

Dear children, dear parents, dear educators, and everyone who has a heart for social interaction.

In today’s digital age, with a dwindling natural world and declining religious values, social interaction with people and animals is decreasing—a trend that is increasingly important for us to counteract.

‘Helen’s World’ aims to strengthen and expand children’s social and emotional skills, and to promote pro-social behavior. As a result of reading these stories, I hope children will become more confident and empathetic, and develop new perspectives, which in turn will protect others from exclusion and prejudice.

Social skills include sharing resources, standing up for justice, supporting those in need, and showing friendship, appreciation and respect to our fellow human beings. But social competence also means the ability to safeguard yourself, train your own perceptions and expand your communication skills.

I would also like to motivate children to handle difficult situations creatively, so that they build resourcefulness and resilience even in moments of adversity, because challenges are important for positive development.

In order to fulfill a child’s need for self-determination, andto give them opportunities for participation and development as an individual, it is important that adults model social behavior, recognize emotions and respond appropriately. ‘Helen’s World’ aims to encourage children and adults to integrate moments of happiness into everyday life—time spent together reading books, listening to music, playing role-play games, engaging in craft activities or painting, to name just a few examples—to evoke emotions and promote pro-social behavior, allowing children to experience self-efficacy. Children learn in a social context, and we adults are their role-models.

With this in mind, with all my heart, I wish you all many happy times in ‘Helen’s World’.

Yours, Helen

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Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

The Best Paper Airplane Ever

A House Full of Snails

The Colored Braid

The snail sale

The Great Prize Giveaway

The Fastest Student in Third Grade

Helen in Trouble

A Saint Bernard in School

Helen’s World

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

The Best Paper Airplane Ever

A Saint Bernard in School

Helen’s World

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The best paper airplane ever

The sun is shining, the birds are singing. The sky is blue and planes are flying back and forth overhead. It’s a beautiful day and Helen is very busy; she is painting the sun, the sky and the planes.

But then a loud cry breaks through her carefree concentration. At first, she tries to keep painting, but the noise gets louder and louder. Who’s that I can hear? she wonders.

She gets up and walks into the hallway. The loud cry is coming from her brother’s room. She knocks on his door right away.

“Yes, come in!” she hears him mutter.

At first, Helen pokes just her head into the room. She sees her little brother Michael with a serious expression on his face. “Why are you looking so grouchy?” she asks, stepping into the room.

Michael is sitting on the floor. His waste basket stands next to him, full to the brim with crumpled balls of paper. In his right hand he is holding a paper airplane, and in his left is a sheet of paper. “I just can’t do it,” says Michael, looking at his sister in despair.

Helen can tell her brother is sad; his eyes are already glistening as if he is about to cry. She decides to sit on the floor next to him and listen. “What can’t you do?” she asks him.

Her brother launches the paper plane in his hand, but it doesn’t fly very far.

“I just can’t fold a good paper plane!” He stands up in fury, picks up the paper plane, crumples it and throws it into the overflowing waste basket.