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Synopsis: Clara earns coins through small neighbourhood jobs. With her piggy bank filling, she faces the question: how shall she spend and save? She first spends one of her coins on joy, buying raspberries from the local farm stand. From there, the coin travels across town.
The heart of the story is simple: every choice matters. When we choose local food, repair what we can, share, support small businesses, reuse materials, and care for nature, we help build stronger communities. A coin may be small, but its journey can be powerful.
This book reminds children and adults that money is not only something we spend. It is something we send into the world to shape real outcomes for people and the planet. With care, even one little coin can carry a lot of good.
Awards
1st Place Diverse Minds: Professionally Published and Scholarship
Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Contest
Story Monsters Approved Children's Books
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Diverse Minds
The book "Mabel The Cat And Her Magnificent Friends" that I wrote and illustrated won first place for B'nai Brith's Diverse Minds book competition, created to promote the values of diversity and inclusion through storytelling and illustration.
My book has been professionally published and has been distributed to Toronto elementary schools and libraries. In addition, the first-place prize included a $3000 scholarship.
This incredible experience has guided me in the further development of invaluable skills including perseverance, courage, and creativity. And most important to me, I have been able to share a meaningful message to the youth in my community.
I am very honoured to have had the chance to read my story to the kindergarten class at my old middle school. I have volunteered in the kindergarten rooms at my past schools for 4 years during my lunch breaks, during these times I got to spend so much time reading and learning with young kids, this is what inspired me to create my own children's book.
