About the Author
As a baby, Michael Rosenbum would lie in his diaper and watch the ants move about on the sidewalk. Living in his imaginative worlds, he grew up as a whimsical thinker, realizing that even the sun plays hide and seek on a rainy day. This positive and hopeful mindset has empowered him to believe that even life’s unpleasant moments are just hidden lessons that can unlock his dreams. A successful businessman, he is humbled and passionate to share insightful messages within his “Happily Ever Always” series.
The Caterpillar and the Butterfly, Michael’s first book of the series, featuring Faith the butterfly, was published by Austin Macauley in February 2021.
About the Illustrator
Matylda McCormack-Sharp is a UK-based artist who studied illustration at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She enjoys working both traditionally, in ink and watercolor, and digitally. She finds illustration to be one of the most valuable forms of communication, and aims to create art that is playful and will engage across the generations. She created the illustrations for What’s Happening to Me Now?, a book about peri-menopause written by Heather Wright, and Yawa the Adventurer, a mid-grade comic series written by Bernard Mensah.
From Michael Rosenblum, the bestselling author of Happily Ever Always: A Guide to Personal Transformation, Security, Confidence, and Healthy Self, comes a debut book for beginning readers. This ageless story introduces us to a caterpillar named “Fear”. Fear is afraid of everything – the other critters who share the garden, lightning storms, being bullied and making new friends. A chance encounter with a wise butterfly named “Faith” helps Fear find the courage within to experience the world in a bolder and more joy-filled way. Rosenblum’s message for children is simple yet profound: fear is just faith turned inside out.
“Children will realize that changing fear to faith is up to them as they explore this magical story. Bravo, Michael Rosenblum!”
Dr. Kathleen Hagstrom
Principal
Walt Disney Magnet School
Chicago Public Schools
A Garden of Flowers is a beautiful and heartwarming celebration of diversity and uniqueness. It reminds young readers that every person brings a valuable perspective to our world, making it a more vibrant and exciting place to live in. A sequel to Michael Rosenblum’s popular The Caterpillar and the Butterfly, in A Garden of Flowers we see the return of the butterfly Faith who helps bring understanding and peace to a squabbling garden. The book’s message is clear: we are ALL born as a special gift to teach each other about ourselves.
The delightful full-page artwork accompanying the story adds a touch of magic, bringing to life the colorful world of flowers and their unique characteristics. The story acknowledges that just as every flower in a garden is different and beautiful, every person is beautifully unique and special in their own way. It teaches children the importance of accepting and celebrating differences and diversity, and how our differences make our world a dynamic and fascinating place to live in. After all, if all our colors were the same, we wouldn’t have rainbows.
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