In Sadie Finds Her Voice, children will learn that God is with them when they are shy and feel nervous about meeting new people, and he will help them to find their words.
Sadie Bunny should be excited to stay overnight with her cousin Ivy. But instead, she is nervous. What if Ivy's friends don't like her? What if she can't get any words out? But after a chance meeting with a scary cat piano teacher, armed with words from the Good Book, Sadie learns that Jesus can help even when you feel shy.
Edited by counselor Aaron Sironi, Sadie Finds Her Voice is part of the Good News for Little Hearts series that brings gospel wisdom and biblical counsel to families. Based on CCEF's model of hope and help, each story focuses on an animal family's real-life issues, encouraging young readers toward a growing relationship with Jesus during challenging circumstances.
"Sadie will give your child words to talk about feeling shy and introverted, and it will give you direction for a profitable and memorable conversation. A fine resource."
Ed Welch, Faculty and counselor, Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF); author of Someone I Know Is Grieving
"I am a shy person, as was my husband. When we first met, he struggled to speak in front of twelve middle school students at a camp. Then he learned to speak to thousands at conferences. This book would have helped him with his fears as a child. It shows how God can give words and courage to navigate the roadblocks that come with shyness. Be sure to read the comments for parents at the end before reading the book to your child. It will help augment your understanding of what fuels shyness and how God's Word speaks to us about it."
Nan Powlison
"From their earliest years, our children are being nurtured by a culture which convinces them that their identity is to be found in how others see them. Believing this lie, they grow up living in fear of man. In this little book with a big and necessary counter-cultural message rooted in the gospel, Aaron Sironi gives parents an effective tool for teaching their children to overcome their shyness and fear by learning the trustworthy promises of God, taking their eyes off of themselves, and serving others."
Walt Mueller, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding
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Sadie Finds Her Voice has been such a timely help to our parenting and disciplining. Our eldest daughter has always been very shy since infancy. She often turned away from a friendly neighbour who was trying to talk to her. Even when a warm, familiar friend asked her a question, she would just look at her friend but not open her lips. She would only speak to others on her own terms at her own timing. She would not say Hi or Bye or Thank You to others when the moment prompted her. We encouraged and nudged but we never forced or disciplined her for that because my husband and I have always seen this as a deeper heart issue. We wanted her to greet and relate with others freely from the inside but not as a performance. Turning 6 last year has come with a whole new adventuresome spirit in her though that shyness didn't go away. Now she is 7, and she is understanding and thinking even more, perhaps a little more self-aware. We have read Sadie Finds Her Voice together a number of times in the last year or so. Recently, we read the story again specifically when we talked about how to overcome her shyness. My daughter agrees that what Sadie felt was how she feels - being afraid of what others think of her. That is so helpful because I didn't know that has been her experience until we read this book! Now we have the words to describe how she felt when she was being shy. We discussed with her some of the Biblical insights from the 2 pages of notes for parents at the end of the book. We talked about the tendency to fear what others think of us, and how we need to replace that with loving Jesus and serving others for their good. We challenged her to participate in a Scripture recitation at a gathering at our church, as a way for her to apply that insight. Recitation was something she had never willingly agreed to do in the past. This time she seems to understand, and she was willing and happy to take on the task. She took courage and did it. She received lots of encouragement from our friends after. Subsequently, we further challenged her to practice that at a different gathering. We practiced beforehand as we usually did. But this time the coin seems to have dropped. She was able and willing to audibly answer a friend's question with eye contact at the moment she was asked - for the first time - in a natural, spontaneous conversation! We are so glad and thankful that Sadie Finds Her Voice has helped us to speak into our daughter's heart. As is true of all the books in this series (we own 15 titles so far), the 2-page resource at the end of the books is priceless. The Biblical counsel in there have ministered to me and helped me to be transformed by the renewal of my own mind as an adult and a mother. Now we are so encouraged to see growth also in our daughter as we applied those Biblical truths with her.
