What I Tell Myself FIRST: Children's Real-World Affirmations of Self Esteem is a social issues picture book for children, grades k-3, written by Michael A. Brown and illustrated by Zoe Ranucci. Who am I? A simple question, but the answer can provide a child with...

Stuck in F*ck: The Aftermath of After-A$$ How to Unf*ck Your Parental Past is a work of non-fiction created in the form of a picture book for adults and was penned by author Michael A. Brown. As the title suggests, this short work uses explicit...

What I Tell Myself About Self-Protection is a self-help book for children written by Michael A. Brown and illustrated by Ilham Fatkurahman. The author bluntly lays it on the line for young readers. He tells them that their parents may not always be around to...

Mommy, Daddy Please Teach Me! by Michael A Brown is a 34-page-long children’s illustrated book about growing up, being cared for, and families. It also contains a graphic representation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The book is presented from a child’s point of view, but...

Unconditionally Conditional: How They Love Me. How They Love Each Other. How They Love Others by Michael Brown is a book that presents a great deal of important and serious questions about love that children might be asking, even if only within themselves. The book...

A little girl discovers that sometimes it pays to slow down and wait in the enchanting children's picture book, Impatient Patience (What I Tell Myself) by Michael A. Brown. Patience is an eight-year-old girl with a penchant for always rushing through life. Her older sister...

It is a day like many others in the Windy City when the story of Stay on Track! by Michael A. Brown begins. Passengers are waiting on the platform for the arrival of their train when Eddie, the train engineer, steps on board his train...

Not all homes are happy places to raise a child. Parents make promises to protect their young ones, but they don’t always follow through with their promises. That’s what happened to Phil. His parents made a promise never to hurt him, but they did. Phil...

Patience was a little girl who always moved too fast. At the beginning of this delightful children’s book, she had a leg cast due to a bicycle accident. Before her ninth birthday, she was impatient, wanting to see what her mother was planning for her...