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    Honeycake: A Helping Hand, Medea Kalantar | Dedicated Review

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    Honeycake A Helping Hand

    Honeycake: A Helping Hand

    Written by Medea Kalantar

    Illustrated by i Cenzial

    Ages 4+ | 33 Pages

    Publisher: Medea Kalantar | ISBN-13: 9781777289768

    What to Expect: Friendship, disability, inclusivity, activism.

    With its cast of diverse characters and relatable situations, the latest Honeycake book focuses on understanding and accepting disability.

    Nala is excited to go to her uncles’ fundraiser and see all the beautiful designs they are sharing to help raise money. She’s even more excited when her uncles tell her she’ll be meeting a very special little girl who is running the fundraiser. When she meets Alexis, however, Nala is surprised to find she had a prosthetic arm. How does Alexis manage to do so much good despite her disability? Alexis introduces Nala to other children with limb disabilities and helps her understand that having a disability doesn’t mean you can’t achieve extraordinary things. Nala is inspired by Alexis and her friends and can’t wait to tell her parents all about her exciting day!

    The story invites readers to see people with limb disabilities through fresh eyes, as individuals with unique talents and capabilities who should be defined by what they can do – not what they cannot. At the same time, depictions of different races, gender, sexual orientations, cultures, and beliefs encourage readers to be inclusive in the way they view society. Colorful digital illustrations reinforce these ideas, depicting diverse characters working and having fun together. A glossary at the end of the story helps readers understand the new terms they have come across with regard to both disability and activism.

    Overall, Honeycake: A Helping Hand is a great introduction to limb difference for young readers.

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    Medea Kalantar is a Reiki master and practitioner, a Guinness World Record Holder, and a multi-award-winning, best-selling author of the Honeycake Book Series(TM). Inspired to write these books when she became a grandmother, Kalantar’s stories are based on her own family, whose members come from many ethnic backgrounds. This unique mix is a perfect recipe—just like the spices in a honey cake. That is why she calls her grandchildren her little Honeycakes.

    With all the negativity in the world, Medea Kalantar’s series is a much-needed glimmer of hope and positivity. The Honeycake Book Series(TM) teaches valuable life lessons, giving children the tools to overcome obstacles in their everyday lives. The Honeycake books teach children about diversity, acceptance, kindness, mindfulness, trust, and gratitude. This series will enlighten, empower, educate, and entertain children and their families for generations to come.

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    Dr. Jen Harrison provides writing and research services as the CEO of Read.Write.Perfect. She completed her Ph.D. in Children’s and Victorian Literature at Aberystwyth University in Wales, in the UK. After a brief spell in administration, Jen then trained as a secondary school English teacher and worked for several years teaching Secondary School English, working independently as a private tutor of English, and working in nursery and primary schools. She has been an editor for the peer-reviewed journal of children’s literature, Jeunesse, and has published academic work on children’s non-fiction, YA speculative fiction, and the posthuman.

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