Library / Rejection Sensitivity
Read this when
The Day You Begin
There will be a day you feel like no one is like you. This book is for that day. 📚
Who it's for
This book speaks straight to the moment of walking into a room and bracing to be judged or left out.
Left out / Self-conscious→Accepted, braver
Feelings it meets
What it is
A picture book written in free verse about the moments when children feel that nobody is quite like them. Angelina spent her summer at home reading to her little sister while classmates travelled; other children in her class feel set apart by an accent, by not being good at sport, or by the lunch they bring from home.
Where to find it
In print (hardcover) and ebook; widely held in libraries.
Before you start
Heads up: Children feel left out for being different.
Age: Picture book (about ages 4–8)
Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Chapter 10
