Focusing on the very big idea of peace, this small book is compact enough to carry with you wherever you go. Part story book and part guided journal, i see peace uncovers the truth about a very real and personal experience of peace and how to create it in our own lives. Award-winning children's book illustrator/author and educator, Maya Gonzalez uses simple words and even more simple ink drawings to create both a universal and intimate experience of peace. Readers are invited to not only write in the guided journal portion of the book, but to draw or color all over the book. Come play with Maya and learn that peace is often closer than we think.

i see peace

Gonzalez, Maya

Religion & Spirituality

Reflection Press

Self-Care for Kids! This is not your usual kid’s book! This book is a call to BE, to step forward and LOVE yourself, LOVE your community, know your history and your powerful place in it and strengthen your own creative power! This book is a tool to use. I created it because I know you are an important part of our world and your strength matters. Bullying is real, but we can change the story by changing the focus. Begin with yourself. Begin the journey of art activist. You are the artist. You are the storyteller. Change yourself. Change the world! Playful ink and watercolor illustrations support a powerful journey that touches on bullying in the founding history of the US, how that history may still be impacting kids and families today, and ways to use creativity and self respect in the face of negative messages for all marginalized communities. The first part of the book briefly acknowledges the United States' past and present and shows some basic forms of activism that kids engage in. The next part talks about walking away from a bully or de-escalation and focusing on how to take care of yourself and community. Finally practical ways creativity and portraiture can be used to support self respect and spread respect in community are explored. Communities reflected include Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Chicanx, LGBTQ Americans, disabled Americans, Americans who identify as women and girls, Muslim and Sikh Americans and Asian Americans. Story text is in English and Spanish. The back includes related resources and referrals. Award-winning children’s book artist and author Maya Gonzalez draws from 20 years working with kids using her Claiming Face curriculum, to provide a place for kids to land during difficult times and counteract the impact of oppression with truth, expression and personal creative power.

When a Bully is President: Truth and Creativity for Oppressive Times (Spanish Edition)

Children's Books

History

"I cry for all of us who bear the burden of these times." Aaaaaaaaaaaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!! One day at the river changed everything. So begins the terror from the pale ones who remake the lands and the people to suit their pale vision. But the ghost woman and her one true love conjure a plan. Will La Llorona's heart be strong enough to fulfill it? More importantly, when the time comes....will the people be ready? In times filled with terror and torment, one woman's haunting grief rises from beyond to become the people's howl in the dark. Sometimes a heartache is so great, it belongs to everyone. Sometimes a healing is so powerful it holds within it the spark to change everything....if we're ready. A queer reclamation of the classic Mexican ghost story, La Llorona, that spans the ages and the Americas (MesoAmerica 1500 to present day San Francisco) to reunite the people with their ghosts and mend what was torn apart. In her debut YA novella, award-winning children's book artist and author Maya Gonzalez takes readers on an emotional and layered journey that weaves history with love, spirit with flesh, and merges ancient myths with current political times. Powerful themes of love, pre-colonial queer identity, sacred feminine, loss and endurance course through the pages as the story gathers and flows and gathers again to support healing, negotiate deep ancestral trauma and ultimately, transformation. In a style akin to poetic prose with a potent cathartic undercurrent that lies shimmering just beneath the surface, Ma Llorona's reach doesn't end at the page. Like a river, she will flow into your dreams, call up your ghosts and have you howling in the night. "They called you La Llorona And told terrible tales But I know who you were I know the truth You are the woman As big as all the stars You are the woman As big as all the land and sea The river mirrors your face The wind carries your wail The grass and cool soil your beautiful body When I am here I am with you in total You are never alone... I know because I am the woman Who loves you forever I will count every star and say I love you A thousand times Like our last night together, my love I will tell the truth of your tale A thousand times So you remember who you once were Your name is my name now I am La Llorona I cry for you I cry for me I cry for all of us Who bear the burden of these times."

Ma Llorona: a ghost story, a love story

Teen & Young Adult

Historical Fiction

Sometimes you just need to color. Here’s a coloring book to love and lift yourself up; a place to relax and open up. Using your hands with your heart makes you strong. And strength is what we need for the times ahead. When the going gets tough, the creative start making art! Inspired by both playful and radical 60’s poster styles, activist/artist Maya Gonzalez offers 29 black and white images for you to play with and color. Strong women, femmes, and children, inspiring words, as well as nature imagery open the first in the Coloring the Revolution series. Remember the 3 Rules! #1 EVERYONE is an Artist. #2 There is never a right or wrong way to make art. #3 Art is ALWAYS an act of courage. Appropriate for most media. 70# paper with images printed on one side allow for watercolors, markers and other materials that bleed. Leave them in the book or rip them out and color your world with them.

Coloring the Revolution #1

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

How do you daily confirm and celebrate gender fluidity when the 'he' and 'she' binary is so prevalent in EVERYTHING, everywhere, all the time!? Pronouns serve as a familiar starting point for kids and grown-ups to expand ideas about gender and celebrate personal expression with fun imagery that provides a place to meet and play. Award winning children’s book author and artist Maya Gonzalez is joined by her partner, Matthew, in their first children’s book together. With virtually no reflection for different gender presentations in children’s books available, together they created a book to do just that. They She He Me, Free to Be shows many gender presentations under each pronoun and invites even more. A go-to place to help keep the conversations alive, break down assumptions of who is “she” or “he” and expand beyond the binary to include “they” and more. The back offers a playful narrative about pronouns, inviting kids to know themselves inside and out, claim the pronouns that express the spirit of who they are and respect that in others. Also included is some discussion for grown-ups on how to hold a supportive space for kids (and for themselves). This book stands on its own, but it also serves as a great reference to expand gender in other books and media. They She He Me also pairs perfect with, The Gender Wheel, a story about Bodies and Gender for every body. Together these books offer a firm foundation of radical gender inclusion for parents, educators and caregivers to share with their kids.

They She He Me: Free to Be!

SG, Matthew

Education & Reference

Focusing on the very big idea of peace, i see peace uncovers the truth about a very real and personal experience of peace and how we each can begin creating it in our own lives. Surprise! it's often not what we think.  Award-winning children's book illustrator/author and educator, Maya Gonzalez uses simple words and even more simple ink drawings to create both a universal and intimate experience of peace. Encouraging kids to allow peace to become something real and personal and possible and from there be able to talk about and work for it effectively. This peace movement begins within with the trust that the more we know peace for ourselves the more we create it. Come play with Maya and learn that peace is often closer than we think. A great companion to When a Bully is President: Truth and Creativity for Oppressive Times, i see peace extends the practice of mindfulness and self-care into the every day. An opportunity for kids to learn how to support themselves as the world continues to radically shift and change.

i see peace: the picture book

The Gender and Infinity Book for Kids

Science, Nature & How It Works

Gender Wheel

The Gender and Infinity COLORING Book for Kids

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i see peace

When a Bully is President: Truth and Creativity for Oppressive Times (Spanish Edition)

Ma Llorona: a ghost story, a love story

Coloring the Revolution #1

They She He Me: Free to Be!

i see peace: the picture book

The Gender and Infinity Book for Kids

The Gender and Infinity Book for Kids

The Gender and Infinity COLORING Book for Kids