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FLOW for All (The Forces Literary Organisation Worldwide - Patron Dame Vera Lynn) is dedicated to offering assistance to those who have suffered from the effects of war, especially the suffering shared by servicemen and women, their relatives and their friends.
Proceeds from the sales of their books will be used to support FLOW for All, helping them to become a registered charity and to employ counsellors for those in need of care and support.
For more information please visit The Forces Literary Organisation Worldwide's website at www.flowforall.org
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
The short stories in this collection are the winning entries in the 2009 FLOW for All short story
competition. FLOW (the Forces Literary Organisation Worldwide) for All is dedicated to offering assistance to those who have suffered from the effects of war, especially the suffering shared by servicemen and women, their relatives and their friends.
Proceeds from the sale of this book will be used to support the work of FLOW for All, helping them
to become a registered charity and to employ counsellors for those in need of care and support.
Our first competitions were opened in April 2009 and ran for four months. Two competitions ran alongside each other – one accepting submissions of poetry, the other short stories. We received a consistently high standard of entries covering a range of subjects, and all entries were posted on either Forces Poetry or Forces Stories. There were no official judges; stories and poems
were selected for the published collection in the most democratic way – by encouraging all visitors to vote for their favourite story or poem. The top twenty stories made it into 'Stories of the Poppies' and the top seventy poems are to be published in 'Poems of the
Poppies'.
Reading the entries, visitors to the forums met a wonderful cast of characters and nationalities, spent time in a variety of locations and eras, and experienced an array of emotions. Some
stories were uplifting, some touched on conflict and war, others reflected on loss and human dignity. Authors had written from their hearts, and this gave them the ability to reach out and touch the hearts of others.
Congratulations to the twenty authors whose work makes up this year's wonderful collection.
