BELIEF

I believe it's a good story....because like the Don Henley song, there's just not enought love in the world.

The storybook, YOU ARE LIKE A RAINBOW, written in verse, is a self-esteem book for children. It's a tool for parents who, maybe lacking some self-esteem themselves- parents who may not have gotten those positive reinforcements as kids, need the words to say to their own children. The words to tell their kids just how bright, and beautiful and wonderful they are- how like a rainbow.

I believe in this story. I wrote the verse for my children, then read it to my grandchildren- I worked on the paintings for over five years.

And even thought it has been rejected by every children's book publisher I've submitted to (six so far, over five years), I still beleive in the story. I still love the artwork, depicting multi-cultural families, single parents, multi-racial kids.

I've sent the book to elementary schools, and teachers have read it over and over to their classes. My shining moment? When a little Hispanic boy pointed at the picture of the boy and his dad with the honey bees and said "Hey, that's me and my dad!" Kids connect with this story- I believe it. I've SEEN it.

My hope is that a some wonderful children's book editor will eventually connect with it as well.

Until then, I still believe. In my book and in faeries and that people in the world are basically good.

Believe in you and your ability to create, to touch the lives of other people with your words, works and art.

Now, go make something....

Dev