This site is the ONLY place you can get the Oak View Special Edition book with the inclusion of
Mrs. Fanning's
​special introductory message.  

Some Families, All Families

This book is a celebration of all families, featuring a unique family on every page.  Through depiction of various family structures, races, ethnicities, cultures, parent structures, multi-generational families, and more, the book endeavors to create a greater spectrum of visibility and representation, while honoring our differences and uplifting the commonalities that transcend all families! 
Each Oak View Special Edition book has been custom-designed to include a special message from Interim Principal,
​Mrs. Michelle Fanning.

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Some Families, All Families - Oak View Special Edition (Softcover)

$14.95 $11.50

The Oak View Elementary Special Edition

Includes an introductory message of inclusivity and acceptance from Interim Principal, Mrs. Fanning, making this special edition unique to Oak View Elementary - no other version like it exists anywhere!


Each page reflects a different family structure or characteristic through beautifully-rendered AI imagery. The story celebrates family differences, while recognizing those characteristics that are common to all families.
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Some Families, All Families; Hardcover (Oak View Sale)

$24.95 $18.00

English Edition of this assembly-featured book. Each page reflects a different family structure or characteristic through beautiful AI rendered imagery, while the story both celebrates difference and those characteristics that are common to all families.


Sorry, this edition DOES NOT feature Mrs. Fanning's special message.
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Jazmyne's Big Emotions - Hardcover (Oak View Sale)

$24.95 $18.00

A 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize Finalist and one of my best selling books.


This book features a main character living with a foster family. At times, Jazmyne, just like anyone else, can experience big emotions that can be difficult for her to manage. The story helps normalize these feelings for all children and makes the exploration of positive coping skills approachable and fun. By the end of the book, children will have already practiced at least one coping skill with Jazmyne, giving them a sense of immediate success. The story creates an opportunity for meaningful conversations between children and their caring adults about a topic that is often difficult to address. The book the perfect companion to the Managing Emotions workbook.


Additional Book Details

-- Hardcover

-- 32 pages

-- First person narrative format - Jazmyne breaks the 4th wall by speaking directly to t he reader

-- Feelings chart included

-- List of coping skills included

-- Coping skill practice included as part of the story

-- Age appropriate for 1st - 4th grade (possibly 5th)

-- Good for read aloud or independent reading

-- Great SEL companion
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Managing Emotions Workbook (Oak View Special)

$14.95 $10.50

Best Selling Book in my Entire Collection


This workbook is 80 pages of fun engaging activities that help kids identify emotions and develop positive coping skills. Covering a range of different emotions, thought provoking exercises are based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy principles to help kids not only identify emotions, but also understand their body and brain signals so they can learn to better manage those emotions. Mixed throughout are fun, feelings-related activities that are designed to help kids experience immediate success, thus giving them a sense of gratification and pride. The workbook can be used independently or can be worked on together with a trusted adult.


The back of the workbook includes suggested activities that adults can consider doing to help reinforce feelings identification and exploration - each activity had been personally used by me in some modified form or another in a group setting with kids.


I suggest purchasing the workbook and Jazmyne's Big Emotions together as a bundled packed for maximum impact and to bolster your at-home/in-office feelings and emotions toolkit.


Additional Book Details:

-- 80 pages of activities and emotions exploration

-- Suggested activities for adults to do with kids

-- Targeted emotions to explore PLUS "create your own" emotions for kids to explore emotions that are not listed in the book

-- Age appropriateness - there's something for everyone here; I've had kids as young as five do some work in the workbook and kids as old as 16 tell me how much they've loved having this. I'd suggest the sweet spot is ages 7 - 12.
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Wonderfully You: An Ode to Adoption Hardcover (Oak View Sale)

$24.95 $18.00

This story about the author's transracial adoption of his youngest daughter is sweetly told in rhyming prose. While an ideal book for any family, it will certainly resonate with families formed through adoption. This is one of those read again and again books.


Also consider the companion coloring book to keep engaging with the story after it has been read.
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Wonderfully You - Coloring Book (Oak View Sale)

$6.95 $5.00

Coloring pages that are derived from the artist's sketches while developing the book Wonderfully You: An Ode to Adoption. Not only will this keep kids engaged, but it offers an insiders look into book illustration.


Consider purchasing with the storybook "Wonderfully You: An Ode to Adoption"
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Practice Makes Progress Hardcover (Oak View Sale)

$24.95 $18.00

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We all know the saying - "Practice Makes Perfect." The reality is that perfection is an unattainable goal. Hence, "Practice Makes Progress." The book title was actually given by Tom's daughter who reminded him that "nothing is perfect."
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Scoochie's Adoption Story (Oak View Sale)

$9.00 - $18.00

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Based on the author's experience of observing his daughter tell a playground friend all about her adoption. A sweet story about an actual adoption told from the child's perspective.
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Fun at Gramma's (1st printing signed softcover) - Oak View Sale

$6.95 $5.00

Fun at Gramma's was updated in 2024, but you can still get copies of this first printing (2021). These are no longer in production, so once they're out, they are gone forever.
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Seasons - A Child's Perspective; Softcover (Oak View Sale)

$12.49 $9.00

Written by the author's 9 year old daughter!


Seasons is a rhyming story that illuminates those special moments children hold so dear as the months roll by and the weather shifts. It is a reminder to us all to pause and enjoy the beauty that each day brings and to celebrate it with our children. Everyday is an opportunity to create a memory that can last not just a season, but a lifetime. The book also includes fun seasonal coloring pages at the end of the story.


Book Details

-- Softcover

-- 32 Pages

-- Full color spread images

-- 4 Seasonal appropriate coloring pages at the end

-- Age Appropriate for pre-K through early readers (up to 3rd grade)
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Algunas Familias, Todas Las Familias; Hardcover (Oak View Sale)

$24.95 $18.00

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The Spanish translated version of this assembly-featured story. Each page reflects a different family structure or characteristic through beautiful AI rendered imagery. The story celebrates family differences as well as those characteristics that are common to all families.


Sorry, this version DOES NOT contain the special message from Mrs. Michelle Fanning.
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