PB: Benefelence the Elephence and the Wonderful You - Ages 4+
Winner of the bronze medal for the 2023 IPPY Best Children's Illustrated eBook Award from the Independent Publishers Awards.
Benefelence the Elephence and the Wonderful You is a delightfully illustrated picture book that delivers a message of mindfulness and highlights the importance of personal values to help create a more Wonderful You.
Readers of all ages will love the story of how Benefelence the Elephence helps a family to overcome their problems by thinking about the situations they come across in everyday life, and then deciding on the best way to solve them, using positive personal values such as being calm, patient resourceful and kind. This insightful message is reinforced with a set of fun activities so that children and adults can really take this message to heart.
Throughout this charming picture book, the reader will discover that to get the best results out of a situation, it is helpful to imagine what their Wonderful Self would do. This exercise in mindfulness will help readers develop a stronger relationship and connection to a more positive image of themselves and encourage them to understand their own personal values.
Let Benefelence the Elephence show you how to unlock the special qualities that everyone holds inside so that we can all become our more Wonderful Selves today and in the future.
Todd H. William has always been fascinated with the concepts of mindfulness, healthy living, purpose, psychology, philosophy, physics, and pretty much everything in between. He’s been a teacher, designed and implemented best-in-class award-winning business intelligence systems for corporations, composed and performed music, written screenplays, and designed, built, and prototyped a variety of novel multidirectional wheels. He’s constantly writing, and when he’s not, he’s trying desperately to remember all the ideas that he needs to write down before he forgets. It was his work on a gentle prioritization app, combined with his commitment to achieving good mental health and a satisfying work-life balance, that helped spark the idea to write Benefelence the Elephence and the Wonderful You, his first children’s book.
Ilya Fortuna is an illustrator and game creator based in Ukraine. He enjoys working closely with authors and game developers to bring their words and stories to life in vibrant images. He is a graduate of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, and served as the illustrator on many children's books, including Marvelous Machines, which was the focus of a successful Kickstarter campaign. Ilya has re-skinned his own game, The Adventures of the Water Knight, for the Cartoon Network. His artwork appears in the successful game, My Lands, and he has created or contributed artwork to many other games, including Cowboy vs UFOs, Brave Astronaut, Adventures of Water Knight, and Slumdog Billionaire (2048).