Welcome to our latest addition inside our Christmas Gift Guide 2021: Gifts for Homeschoolers: Enough Stuff a book published by Jim Wasserman that I received a copy of in exchange for a spot in this years Christmas Gift Guide.
I have a suggestion that not only is a great first reader for ages 6 – 9, but all proceeds from the sale of Enough Stuff will go to REFUGEE ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF (through an organization here in Dallas). Yes, before you ask I’m close to Dallas making us neighbors. Jim Wasserman isn’t making a dime on the sale of his books but purchasing Enough Stuff is like giving several people a gift with one purchase! Allowing us to Pay it forward during the Holidays.
Enough Stuff is a first reader (ages 6 – 10), four-chapter book that has the message that during the Holidays, family and friends are more important than presents and shopping. Enough Stuff has already been used in classrooms and praised by educators for its clever wordplay:
The people of Benjour go on a shopping frenzy every year at Holiday time, until a visitor tells them that they can’t seem to get “enough.” Unfamiliar with this word or idea of “enough,” the village goes on a mad chase to find this thing called “enough” (whatever it is). They are opposed by store owner Seymour Sales. The story applies to any Gift-centered Holiday, making this the perfect book for a family read.
Jim Wasserman is a retired teacher who is now a writer and he has a three-book series on teaching about Consumerism and Media Literacy, complete with lessons which would be great for Charlie who is 14 and Jim Wasserman is a frequent contributor to financial and other websites, such as HumbleDollar.
About Jim Wasserman
Born of a Tennessee man and a proper English woman, Jim was born in a log castle. Conspiracy theorists point out that immediately after Jim’s birth, the Soviet Bloc erected a wall to stop East-West travel in Berlin. You connect the dots.
Jim’s parents took him to far away and exotic places, only to be disappointed when Jim managed to find his way back. Finally left on his own, Jim was raised by a travelling band of Sloths, accounting for his belief that his appearance, dress, and temperament are “normal.” He called the jungle home, at least until he learned proper English and then correctly called jungle “jungle” and the place he lived in “home.”
Jim met the love of his life in the form of a young Thai woman who met him when the Elephant she rode to school every day mistook him for a sickly white piece of Fruit. Although wiser than Jim, she still has no reply to his argument-winning line: “I’m obviously smarter than you; look whom each of us chose to marry.” Together, Jim and his wife have found bliss in raising two boys that are the light of their lives, though aside from these two house cats, they also have two sons who seem to eat and sleep a lot.
Whether demonstrating his own original Martial Arts moves (such as “curl up in a fetal position and cry like a baby till they stop punching you”) or developing new excuses for losing tennis matches (“The net is higher on my side of the court”), Jim is a celebrated educator, as seen by almost every school naming a large athletic room after him (even if it is misspelled). Jim is an avowed Groucho-Marxist, believing that people who put their faith in institutions should be institutionalized. Jim’s life-mantra is, “Dignity is overrated.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
