Digby has always felt a little different from everyone else. For some reason he’s just never felt like he belonged. He longs for a place that felt like home, and one day his yearning sends him on a journey of discovery that takes him to a place where the air is different, and there’s a rushing sound quite unlike anything he’s ever heard before. At last, he finds a place where ”feeling different” feels just right.
A squirrel, a mouse, and a frog want to be bigger than their enemies so that they can get even with them but each of the animals soon finds that changing sizes does not make life easier.
Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author’s memories of her art teacher.
When Crispin Blaze turns seven, he’s expected to breathe fire like all the other dragons. But instead of fire, he breathes a host of unusual things.
Children wake up one morning and find a black dot on their playground. When it isn’t easily removed, each has a different way of coping with it.
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When her grandma asks her about school, a girl draws a class portrait, adding details that show what makes each person special.
Two friends discuss how different they are from each other, and each decide, after wishing they were like the other, that it’s best to accept one’s own individuality.
Children discover that they can like the same things and still be different. Spanish language edition.
Monique hates her school uniform. Who wants to wear brown and blue? Monique wants to be different. One day she finds a trunk filled with her mother’s old clothes, and the next day , and the day after that, and the day after that Monique transforms her boring old brown and blue, (and herself), until she finally learns that no matter what you wear, individuality always shines.
Sunday Chutney has the most extraordinary life–she has lived all over the world. Moving around means she’s always the new kid at school and never really has a place to call home. But Sunday Chutney doesn’t care about that because she knows how to handle it.