Tracey L. Thompson was born and raised in southern California and now resides in northern Virginia. She is a wife and the mother of five children.
After overcoming domestic violence, divorce, singlemotherhood and low self-esteem, she went on to earn a master’s degree inpsychology with a specialization in marriage & family therapy fromChapman University, and now has written a novel that sheds light on the issue of weightdiscrimination in a fun and fanciful way.
Fatropolis is the alternative history, paranormal romantic adventure of a young fat woman with low self esteem who falls into another world where fat people lead happy, normal, guilt-free lives.
In the last twelve years Tracey has made a living at social work for hospice,working with at-risk youth and their families, training military families aboutaspects of resiliency, and now social work at the community level assisting needy families and thehomeless. Her interests include spending time with her family, spiritual pursuits, playingDungeons & Dragons, reading, writing, knitting, scrapbooking, movies, and music.
<p>Does your child have a Guardian Angel?</p><p>Share a day in the life of a little girl whose tiny guardian angel named Angela sits on her shoulder to keep the child safe and guide her through the day.</p><p>Her activities include getting the girl ready for school, crossing the street, being polite and kind to friends, learning her lessons, fastening her seatbelt while traveling, being aware of stranger-danger, praying for her pets, and reminding her constantly that she is loved.</p><p>Once again social values are emphasized in this latest illustrated children's coloring book by award-winning author Sherrill S. Cannon. This is the author's third rhyming children's coloring book.</p><p>Meet many classroom friends from the author's previous books, as My Little Angel Angela guides this child throughout her day.</p><p>The author says, "This book is dedicated to our oldest son, who lost his battle with cancer in August 2021. He is my Special Angel."</p><p><strong>About The Author:</strong> Sherrill S. Cannon is the author of 10 award-winning children's books that have won nearly 100 awards (and counting), including Santa's Birthday Gift, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys, The Magic Word, Gimme-Jimmy, Manner-Man, My Fingerpaint Masterpiece, Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!, The Golden Rule, My Little Angel and David's ADHD, as well as two award-winning poetry books, A Penny for Your Thoughts, and A Dime is a Sign. Her other two coloring books are Peter and the Whimper-Whineys Coloring Book and The Golden Rule Coloring Book. She is also a playwright, with seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. A former teacher, the author's goal in each of her books is to teach good manners as well as caring for others.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong>"I'd like to live in Tracey Thompson’s Fatropolis.</strong> The food is delightful, potential boyfriends and girlfriends are properly appreciative of the abundant figure, and all the accommodations are scaled to fit large bodies!</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"> </p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;">"Thompson's heroine Jenny accidentally finds this alternate</span> <span style="font-size:10pt;">Manhattan</span><span style="font-size:10pt;"> where the population hasn’t swallowed the poison pill of fat hatred. Jenny begins the book in a miserable condition. Friends, relatives and total strangers feel justified in ridiculing and judging her because of her plus-sized body. She accepts the verdict that she is lonely and a failure because she cannot succeed in losing weight and nothing else she might accomplish matters. I really felt for Jenny, who is a good, kind person trapped in a painful situation.</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"> </p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;">"When Jenny literally stumbles through a hidden portal into alternate world where her body size is valued, her first reaction is that someone is playing a cruel joke on her. Gradually she recovers from disbelieving shock and begins to realize that the men who pursue her in Fatropolis really do find her irresistible and the women envy her 'hearty' figure. She discovers that food is a pleasure rather than the enemy and that she deserves to live in a world set up to fit rather than to squeeze out her generous proportions.</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"> </p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;">"Jenny's journey takes us on a path many of us have traveled to accept our bodies and enjoy our lives just as we are. It would be easier if we could find one of those portals into Fatropolis, so let me know if you do and let's go!"</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"> </p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong>Lynne Murray<br /></strong>author of <em><strong><a href="http://www.pearlsong.com/thefalstaffvampirefiles.htm">The Falstaff Vampire Files</a></strong></em></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="2">"<strong>Welcome to Fatropolis, where to be 'hearty' is to be desirable and sought after—</strong>where foodmakers are valued and warmongers are nonexistent. Welcome to Fatropolis, where to eat and drink is fraught with fun, not with sin.</font> </p><p align="center"><font size="2">"In a few places in Manhattan, with the help of miniature carved stone goddesses, one can pass through the portals between a world that values thinness and Fathattan, in Fatropolis, a world that values roundness.</font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2">"All her life Jenny has been told that she is not good enough, not attractive enough, because she is fat. While shopping for a gown for the key social event of the company for which she works, Jenny stumbles through a portal into a different country and a different dimension. Suddenly her round beauty is appreciated, she is fawned and fought over by men, and women are happy to befriend her.</font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2">"Through her journeys to Fatropolis Jenny learns to value her body and herself and to stand up for what she believes and intuitively honors. But most of all, as Fatropolis gives her a second lease on life, Jenny learns what it is to love herself, to love life, and to love."</font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2"><strong>Frannie Zellman<br /></strong>author of <strong><em><a href="http://www.pearlsong.com/fatland.htm">FatLand</a></em></strong></font> </p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><br /><span style="font-size:10pt;"><em><strong></strong></em></span></p>