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Easy-to-read text encourages the reader to find something every day for which to be thankful, from underwear that is just the right size to birthday cakes and the wishes they bring.

When Herold started her post-undergraduate career as a classroom educator, she recalls stating in her job interview that she wanted to make a difference in her students' lives. Today that strikes her as very Pollyannaish, but she was a twenty-two-year-old newly degreed English major with a Behavioral Science concentration who chose to read fairy tales, fantasy, science fiction, and romance as her elective reading. She was energetic and optimistic. She probably still is several decades and a different career later. It's rather ironic that when she was teaching, she took for granted the thanks of appreciative parents and notes and gifts of current and former students. She was immersed in the daily work of lesson planning, grading, and reading the history textbook to keep ahead of her students. It wasn't until she was teaching history that she took a college history course.

\"A boy awakes with the dawn and expresses gratitude for this unique day\"-- Provided by publisher.

For centuries, fiction—particularly fables—has seamlessly combined storytelling, moral lessons, and societal reflections to engage readers on both emotional and intellectual levels. Despite extensive research on the benefits of reading and the emotional responses it evokes, a critical gap remains in understanding what drives readers to form deep emotional connections with specific works. This study seeks to identify the characteristics of a book that foster such connections. Using the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework analytics, we analyzed a dataset comprising 129 Amazon reviews of Wild Wise Weird by Professor Quan-Hoang Vuong, an influential Vietnamese scholar in the social sciences and humanities. The book is a collection of 42 fables that intertwine traditional storytelling with contemporary sensibilities, offering life lessons, humor, and social commentary. Of these reviews, approximately 66% expressed love for the book. The findings reveal that readers who describe the book as unique, whimsical, quirky, or innovative are more likely to express emotional attachment to it. Similarly, readers who are drawn to the book’s illustrations and characters tend to form stronger emotional connections. The cultural richness and representativeness of the book also emerged as significant factors in fostering readers’ emotional attachment. The book successfully captures the depth, charm, and moral essence of Vietnamese culture to a global audience while conveying a minimal sense of humor in the Zhuangzian (莊子) tradition. Readers have expressed heartfelt gratitude after engaging with the book, underscoring its success in fostering meaningful emotional connections. Thus, insights from this analysis offer actionable recommendations for stakeholders in the literary ecosystem, from authors and publishers to marketers, to enhance readers’ emotional attachment and commitment to books. Plain Language Summary What makes Readers Love a Fable? For centuries, stories—especially fables—have been a powerful way to share life lessons, spark emotions, and reflect on society. While many studies have shown that reading can be emotional and meaningful, we still do not fully understand what makes readers form a deep emotional bond with a particular book. This study set out to explore that question. We looked at 129 Amazon reviews of Wild Wise Weird, a collection of 42 fables that feature the quirky bird village with the Kingfisher, as the main character. The fables mix Zhuangzian (莊子) humor with fresh ideas, satires, and social messages about timeless and timely issues of our time. What we found was clear: people who described the book as unique, whimsical, quirky, or innovative were more likely to say they loved it. Many also connected deeply with the book’s characters and beautiful illustrations. Another important reason readers felt attached to the book was its cultural richness. The book shares Vietnamese culture in a heartfelt and meaningful way that resonates with readers from around the world. Many people even wrote messages of gratitude, saying the book made a lasting impact on them. Our study is one of the first to use quantitative data to explore the factors that contribute to people’s love of fiction books. The results offer helpful insights for a wide range of people. Teachers can use these findings to choose books that connect better with students. Writers can learn how to craft stories that truly speak to their readers. Publishers can more easily spot books that will make a strong emotional impact.

Grace's thank-you notes for her birthday presents appear all over town, bringing love and happiness into everyone's lives.

Introduction: Bibliotherapy can be defined as the use of literature to help deal with the challenges of life. The authors will situate this paper within the greater body of literature on bibliotherapy, providing an overview of the practice and a detailed exploration of the use of a particular form of bibliotherapy with 2 different groups of mental health patients. Description: Librarians at an academic hospital partnered with their psychiatry department to deliver a read-aloud bibliotherapy program to mental health patients. Programs were delivered to both in-patients and members of a community based recovery program based at the hospital. Outcomes: Basic written evaluations were collected from participants, and interviews were conducted with the peer support workers who also attended the groups. Participants, peer-support workers, and decision makers in the mental health programs all found the projects successful and rewarding, and as a result spin-off programs have been developed and/or proposed. Discussion: Each program ran for a minimum of 6 weeks and engaged between 3 and 8 clients in each group. Peer-support workers also participated in the group sessions. Readings from literature (poetry, fiction and non-fiction) were selected and used to introduce and discuss topics such as loneliness, compassion, forgiveness, gratitude, etc. The sessions were facilitated by a librarian and a librarian/psychotherapist. The authors will describe the structure of the reading sessions, group dynamics, and the materials used to address specific topics, as well as methods for selecting materials. Suggestions and recommendations for delivering similar programs will be discussed.

The very hungry caterpillar celebrates some of the things it's thankful for.

In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whose popular works culminate and assail this tradition, Claudia L. Johnson examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions. Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender, and feeling in the fiction of this period, Johnson provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work—grotesqueness, strain, and excess—as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict. She maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, \"equivocal beings.\"

Throughout a Thanksgiving Day filled with family and fun, a child finds opportunities to be thankful.

Nelson shares her memories of the Horn Book. Her most personal memories of the Horn Book began in 2012 when Andrew Karre called with news that No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller had won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry. The award took things to a new level. The ceremony at Simmons brought together not only her library and publishing families, but also surprise attendees--college buddies from the 1980s; longtime friend and mentor Marilyn Hollinshead; even one of the real people featured in No Crystal Stair, Rodnell Collins. In 2014, Roger Sutton invited her to deliver the keynote for the Horn Book at Simmons \"Mind the Gaps\" symposium. The passing years brought more opportunities to contribute and grow.