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The Struggle Bus’s lyrical, rhyming text adds a comforting touch to the book, while not downplaying the reality that sometimes life is really hard. From a growth mindset perspective, the story gives the main character space to feel those hard feelings, but also to be open-minded to lots of different solutions. 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Julie Koon is a pastor's wife, mother of three beautiful daughters, two sons-in-law and three little grandsons. She and her husband, Stan, love traveling together in ministry. They have recently returned from a trip to Honduras where they founded a children's feeding center. Julie is a conference speaker and enjoys writing, leading worship, teaching on prayer, studying nutrition, and -morning times with her three lovable grandsons. 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With inspiring affirmations and a textured calming strip for kids to trace with their fingertips on each spread, this is a wonderful playroom or classroom tool to help lessen anxiety, anger, overstimulation, and many more big emotions little ones may not yet understand how to identify, describe, or regulate.  If you feel stuck in the mud, breathe in and out as you trace the outline of a bright flower’s petals. If you feel your worries whirl and swirl, breathe in and out as you trace textured ocean waves. 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Each day, she rises with the sun and the crow of the rooster, ready to tend to her vegetables, of which she has many! She grows a wide variety of delicious vegetables, including stately asparagus, crisp carrots, and bright, sunny squash. Rain or shine, each day, Willadeene is outside tending to her farm, and that's the way she likes it.One day, a man visits her with an offer to purchase her farmland with the intention of building large buildings. Willadeene, protective as ever of her farm, refuses to sell. Day after day, the man comes back, offering Willadeene more money. She still refuses to sell.As the weeks, months, and years pass, Willadeene refuses all requests to sell, and is soon surrounded by roads, offices, houses, and shops as buildings are built all around her and her farm. Her once peaceful surroundings are now filled with honking car horns and thumps and booms of music. Can Willadeene adapt to her surroundings? Does the farm stand a chance of surviving in the big city?Author and illustrator Julie Koon brings to light the concept of urban sprawl through the story of a young lady's experiences on a farm. Willadeene's story, starting with the quiet farm life to being surrounded by noise and tall buildings, shows young readers the effects of what rapid development can do to places all over the world.While many farms and rural locations have succumbed to the effects of urban sprawl, many farmers have adapted to the rapid change, becoming part of the cities and towns that have grown around them. 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