No Difference Between Us by Jayneen Sanders

No Difference Between Us by Jayneen Sanders

Jess and Ben are twins. Jess is a girl and Ben is a boy but in all the BIG ways, there is NO difference between them!

Combining cheerful illustrations and a familiar narrative, this book will help children to understand that, fundamentally, people are more the same than they are different. Children are visual learners and the match between illustrations and text in this story will assist them in recognizing that we are all human - everyone feels, and everyone has hopes and dreams. Our gender should never label us or limit our potential.

Throughout the text, open-ended questions are provided so children can voice their own experiences. Further in-depth Discussion Questions are provided encouraging the reader and the child to consider each scenario, and engage with the message.

Sanders, Jayneen: - Jayneen (aka Jay Dale) is an experienced early years educator, author and publisher. She started her teaching career in the 1980s as a primary school teacher in rural Australia. She then moved to Melbourne and taught at a number of inner-city schools. In 1985, Jay had a change of career and became an educational editor and publisher. In the early 90s, Jay and her partner moved to Japan to work as English teachers. They lived and worked in Japan for over three and a half years. In fact, Jay's first daughter was born there. On returning to Australia, Jay began work as an educational author/packager. Since that time, she has authored and produced numerous award-winning titles for the educational publishing industry. Jay is also an accomplished children's book author, writing a number of titles for such literacy series as ZigZags, Totally Kidz, Deadly and Incredible, and a children's picture book series for Penguin. She is currently working with an educational publisher as lead author of a literacy series. Jay has written over 100 titles in that series. Jay is a mother of three daughters and was a school councillor at her local school for over seven years. This time spent in schools both as a teacher and a parent inspired her to ask the question of her community: 'What are we doing in schools to protect our children from unsafe touch?' When she realised very little was actually being done, she decided to use her authoring and publishing skills to write Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept to help parents, carers and teachers to broach the subject of self-protection and to encourage children to speak up. After the encouraging response to Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept, she realised there was a need to further build upon the idea of children not keeping secrets about unsafe touch. Jay participated in Protective Behaviours professional development and attended numerous conferences on the topic to educate herself in how to keep children safe and provide them with prevention education. Jay then went on to develop and publish a comprehensive Body Safety and Respectful Relationship Teacher's Resource Kit as well as writing several more children's books on the topics of Body Safety, consent, respect, body boundaries and gender equality. Jay's ongoing passion for the safety and empowerment of children continues today with new manuscripts and free-to-download Body Safety resources always in the wings.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781925089172
ISBN 10	1925089177
Title	No Difference Between Us
Author	Jayneen Sanders
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Educate2empower Publishing
Year published	2017-06-12
Number of pages	34
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.