Celebrates each child's unique individuality, symbolized by a crown that each are born with and which will always be there.

Traces the day of two children and focuses on everyday occurrences that can build self-esteem.

Rhyming verses describe many of the reasons for celebrating one's unique qualities.

When Theodore the mouse happens upon a blue mushroom that makes a strange sound, he sees in it an opportunity to show his boastful friends that he is special, too.

"Lili Macaroni loves every feature she has inherited from a family member, but when she starts kindergarten she is teased for those very traits. Burdened by unhappiness, she creates a polka-dotted butterfly and imagines it flying her sorrows away--and finds she has introduced a powerful tool for conversations about emotions, self-esteem, and resilience"--

Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class--as his parents keep reminding him--but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.

Eleven-year-old Diana, the gangly, sometimes clumsy, only child on the island of Themyscira, struggles to live up to the high Amazonian standards and longs for someone her own age to whom she can talk.