Description
<p>Does your child have ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)?</p><p>Meet David, one of award-winning author Sherrill S. Cannon's "Classroom of Kids," who manages his ADHD with the help of classmates.</p><p>David discovers ways to cope with his hyperactive brain, while learning how to calm and soothe his ADHD. Solutions include setting daily schedules and following simple rules that regulate behavior. His teachers and therapists encourage using the computer for academic advancement, and to establish a pattern for study as well as for occasional recreation. David not only learns self-control and communication skills, but is able to fit into the classroom and make friends.</p><p>Once again social values are emphasized in the author's latest illustrated children's story, and classroom friends from previous books are featured. In fact, David has been part of the class for a long time!</p><p><strong><em>"David's ADHD</em></strong><em> is a timely topic for parents and children. A story in rhyme that demystifies ADHD. It explains a youngster's behavior in terms of his inattentiveness and impulsivity and how it impacts those around him. A sensitive way of creating understanding for children with ADHD and their families."</em> - <strong>Dr. Valerie Allen, licensed school psychologist</strong></p><p><strong>Author Bio: </strong></p><p>Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won 76 awards for her previous 11 rhyming books. She is also the author of seven published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. The author has been called "an absolute master of rhyming" and "a modern-day Dr. Seuss."</p>
Story Behind The Book
I started writing poetry in 2001 while I was still a professor of microbiology at a medical school. I immediately fell in love with the freedom and creativity inherent in poetry and found it much more enjoyable to write than the scientific writings for research grants, research articles, reports, etc that I had done for years. I have been writing poetry ever since. I like rhyming poetry; Poe and Tennyson are my favorite poets. I also like to tell a more complete story in my poetry. This led to the development of my writing story-poems, which I call storoems. I have become a prolific poet. Poetic Musings of an Old, Fat Man is my third published collection of my poetry since 2003. I like to think I have become a pretty good poet; I was the only poet to have two of his poems win an award in the 2008 Tom Howard Poetry Contest, an international poetry contest in association with Winning Writers, Inc. My storoem, "The Old Salty Poems" won the $1,000 prize for second place, and my free-verse poem "The Assembled Waiters" won $200 for High Distinction. I think that you will find my poetry to your liking if you will give it a chance.
