Month: July 2016

Kids books with a magical heart

Blended families children's bookThe Awesomely Amazing Adventures of Cherry: Butterfly Buddies

By Joanna Bartlett
Illustrated by Berry Gustina

Friendship. Magic. Truth.

Nine-year-old Cherry’s life looks perfect on the outside. Living in a great big house with a treehouse in the backyard. Surrounded by family: a brother, two step-siblings, even a foreign exchange sister. A loving mom and a geeky step-dad who offers daily science news.

But every year something big happens to change her life—and it’s not always good. Now her dad lives across the country. Her nana and cat both died. And her siblings…well, they’re great—except when they aren’t.

When this year’s big thing happens, Cherry has some choices to make. Does she stick with what she knows is true, even if it means risking a lifelong friendship? Does she fight to stop her bratty enemy from stealing her crush? And is it worth loving people if they all leave her in the end?

The Awesomely Amazing Adventures of Cherry: Butterfly Buddies takes you on a journey through the magic of family, friendship and the importance of keeping an open heart.

Published July 2016

Ages 6-9 (Grades 1-3)

Available from Amazon.com (kindle and paperback) and Another Read Through.

What readers are saying:

“A story about family, friendship and love. My favorite quote from the book was, “It’s good to have a special friend who speaks to your heart.” -Mama. The illustrations are fun-tastic, they add what words can’t express.”

“A sweet adventure about a young girl struggling with a new step family and a father cross the country. It follows her adventure as she follows a butterfly that opens her heart and finds her place with family and friends.”

“My daughter who is 9 loved reading this book.”

“A beautifully written (and illustrated!) story with an arc that shares so much of a young girl’s journey as she navigates changes within her family and within herself.”

Connect with your intuition through coloring meditation

Intuitive symbols coloring bookIntuitive Symbols Coloring Book: Unlock your intuition through meditative coloring

Enjoy 30 relaxing coloring pages full of everyday objects to help you get into a quiet meditative state and connect with your intuition.

Intuitive messages come to you in all sorts of ways – often through symbols that we receive in our daily lives. By connecting with your intuition, through active meditation, while coloring those images, you can find out what those symbols mean to you.

Currently available from Amazon.com, Another Read Through, StarGate, The Purple Door Soul Source, and other locations.

What people are saying:

” Using the process of coloring as a bit of meditation along with thoughtfulness of beginning to build a symbol dictionary is really helpful. Those of us with crazy, busy lives can use a tool to slow our minds and allow us to let our intuitive selves grow.”

“I calmed down and contemplated some things I’d been mulling over the last few weeks…it was strangely cathartic to fill in the blanks and slowly bring the page to completion. I’d occasionally scribble something in the prompts below as I pondered my career and the things about it that give me frustration and joy. I wouldn’t exactly call my finished product art, but I think I came away from that coloring page with a little more clarity than when I started”

“This book is on nice quality paper, and has 30 pages of everyday objects and symbols for meditative coloring (family-friendly). Joanna has written a lovely introduction describing how symbols can be a powerful way for us to communicate, and actively coloring these symbols helps us to reconnect to our intuition through meditation, and as we recognize symbols throughout our day. The artwork is well drawn, balanced, and varied.”