Courage Takes Practice a Color Theory Storybook for Young artists (Book One In The Courage Takes Practice Skills) Written & Illustrated by Amy Scheidegger Ducos. Check out the Press Release From Crayons to Emotions: Unveiling the Importance of Colors in Children’s Emotional Education.
Charlie has been bullied in the past and as soon as I read the information for Courage Takes Pride I knew it was a book I wanted to read and share with Charlie as soon as possible. Before I began to read the story I enjoyed looking at the cover and the little girls on the front of the book. My favorite was the little girl in red who looks like she was trying to figure something out.
David let me know he liked her in yellow because she is smiling and having fun. David liked the one in blue because he was having a hard day and he said that was how he was feeling but Charlie and I told David we were going to change his frown to a smile because he was spending the day with us.
This is a chapter book which can be read all at once or broken down into a chapter or two a day. Charlie and I enjoyed learning about The Basics of Color Theory and what the different colors mean. Like purple creativity which is my favorite color. Charlie and I read “why learn color theory” in our Homeschool Art Class which we will be learning about in our classes. Would you like to join us as we study color theory?
Charlie learned words he didn’t know like “Ecuador” which we will be studying in our Geography Class. Charlie liked finding out she has a Puppy just like we do. I love how we learn her last names are hard to pronounce but what they mean and why there like her. Charlie and I enjoyed learning about the Soup and desserts they eat which we would like to try and make in our Homeschool Home Making Class. Would you like to help us prepare these dishes?
There is so much to learn from this book that it should not only be shared with children of all ages but adults as well. I hope it ends up in every counselors office, library and classroom. As well as doctors’ offices and physiatrists offices. Because it teaches us how to deal with bullies in a positive way with out saying mean things or fighting which should ever happen but does at times.
About:
Titled “Courage Takes Practice,” I have written a story book to my daughter about making art and overcoming bullies. Based on my own childhood, I am writing a book about a creative kid who gets bullied in a very specific way that I have not encountered in a children’s book yet: only acknowledged when they are needed but invisible to the world when they are not. Weaved throughout the book are lessons of color theory, designed to help emerging arts know what colors to use in their own artwork when they want to convey certain emotions or moods.
About the Author: Amy Scheidegger Ducos’
From art school in NC to teaching Arts and Entertainment Management in Philadelphia to living abroad in Quito, Ecuador, Amy has lived a creative life from the very beginning. An artist by age 2, Amy has spent all of her life dedicated to artistic practices.
She is a new mom, a business owner and artist hell bent on using her design and freelance expertise for good.
“Courage Takes Practice” is a retelling of Amy Scheidegger Ducos’ own childhood, refocused through the lens of her daughter, Olivia, who was born in Ecuador. Amy moved from the DC area to a rural town in North Carolina when she was 6, and experienced stark “otherness” in her school because of her unusual last name. Once the town got used the name and found out Amy was a budding artist, Amy experienced an exploitative kind bullying that she did not categorize as bullying until she was older – being seen and popular when something artistic was needed, and then becoming completely invisible afterwards.
This did not deter her form art making, quite the opposite, it did make her absolutely retreat into art making as a way of coping with all the feelings she could not find words for.
Amy runs a Graphic Design and Illustration business, Rock & Roar Creative.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
