I Want Your Moo: A Story for Children about Self-Esteem

Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award for Children's Books

Gobble-gobble. Gobble-gobble.
What a horrible noise!
I can't stand the sound of my voice!

Toodles doesn't like herself. Her legs are skinny, her feathers are brown, and her head has no hair. Most of all, she hates her Gobble-gobble. All that changes when Toodles saves the day with her super-confident, super-empowering, super-turkey Gobble-gobble!

With lively rhymes and funny illustrations, this book will have kids laughing out loud while they learn to accept their own Gobble-gobbles.

An extensive Note to Parents relays additional information and strategies for helping kids overcome a lack of confidence and self-esteem.

Author: Marcella Bakur Weiner, Jill Neimark
Publisher: Magination Press
Published: 10/15/2009
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781433805424
Audience: Ages 4-8


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 03/01/2010 pg. 135

About the Author

Marcella Bakur Weiner, EdD, PhD, is a fellow of APA and professor adjunct at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. She is also president of the Mapleton-Midwood Community Mental Health Center and was chief staff psychologist at the Park Slope Children's Center in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Weiner has authored twenty-five books and seventy-five journal articles, and she has been interviewed for numerous national television shows, radio talk shows, and magazine articles. Her most recent book is Women Psychotherapists: Journeys in Healing, co-authored with Lillian Comas-Diaz. Together Neimark and Weiner authored and Adinolfi illustrated the Magination Press book, I Want Your Moo, a 2010 Learning Magazine(R) Teachers' Choice AwardSM for Children's Books.

Jill Neimark is an author of fiction and nonfiction, an award-winning science journalist and essayist, and former features editor at Psychology Today magazine. Her credits include the middle-grade novels The Secret Spiraland The Golden Rectangle, the adult novel Bloodsong, and the adult nonfiction title Why Good Things Happen to Good People: How to Live a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by the Simple Act of Giving. Her picture books include I Want Your Moo and Toodles & Teeny: A Story of Friendship. She lives in Georgia. Visit her at www.jillneimark.com and follow her on Facebook and Twitter: @JillNeimark.

JoAnn Adinolfi was born in New York City, on Staten Island. She is the author and illustrator of Tina's Dinerand is the illustrator of Halloween Hoots and Howls and The Perfect Thanksgiving, among dozens of other children's books. She lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Visit her at www.joannadinolfi.com and follow her on Facebook: @JoAnnAdinolfiStudio and Instagram: @ joanne_adinolfi.