Books with author Courtney Smith

The Book of Possibility is an inspiring children's book that teaches the power of positive choices. At its core, the Book of Possibility is about empowerment. It seeks to answer the question we all have of "what can I do, I am only one person?" The book explores nine choices that each person can make every single day, including kindness, generosity, wonder, joy, peace, and beyond. What kind of world do we want to be? How do our choices impact others? Life is full of challenges, difficult feelings, and hard experiences. Life is also full of possibility. While we can't control all that happens in our lives, we can choose how we respond.The Book of Possibility reminds us that we each have the power to be the good in the world.

An urban legend haunts her dreams and waking life. Will she figure it out before she is wearing a toe tag?Tenesha Campbell’s name is plastered on the honor roll with each semester, and most people usually look for any excuse to share her breath. However, her mother leaves whelps on her back, stomach, and legs in addition to shoving her head into the walls for little or no reason. Her stepfather leaves bruises upon her body if she does not please him, and a local kingpin promises to bury her family if she does not sell his urban pharmaceuticals. She chases the shadows of an urban legend to disprove it as a means of coping with her situation, but she risks wearing a toe tag upon attracting its attention. Will she survive long enough to solve it, or will she be choking on her own blood before she has a clue?

The Book of Possibility is an inspiring children's book that teaches the power of positive choices. At its core, the Book of Possibility is about empowerment. It seeks to answer the question we all have of "what can I do, I am only one person?" The book explores nine choices that each person can make every single day, including kindness, generosity, wonder, joy, peace, and beyond. What kind of world do we want to be? How do our choices impact others? Life is full of challenges, difficult feelings, and hard experiences. Life is also full of possibility. While we can't control all that happens in our lives, we can choose how we respond.The Book of Possibility reminds us that we each have the power to be the good in the world.

ReviewsWhen people look at us, all they see is what we present. People always question why we made the choices we made. However, people have no idea what goes on in our homes or our heads. We choose whom we talk to or avoid. This book is a glance into reality for many. This book will walk you through the struggles of impoverished communities and women.Roshawn Evans (Founder of Pure Justice and author of Stolen Identify)The author has made it his duty to pull the reader in by beginning with a present day urban setting with the daily events in the life of students who are competing against each other to have the best grades in school, visits to the local mall, and some dangers that urban neighborhoods are plagued with, according to present day media and reality. However, by the time the reader approaches the middle of the novel, he or she is the introduction of the title character, J. Trouble. J. Trouble is a youth of 14 years of age, born decades earlier, around the turn of the century, in 1930s Louisiana, at the height of Jim Crow, lynchings, sharecropping, and the fight for the civil rights of Black Americans. Thus begins an odyssey: a journey into the turmoil of a black, male youth who witnesses firsthand the aftereffects of American slavery on the non-privileged, at the hand of the “privileged.” The author uses a method of characterization which causes the title character to gain inner strength and courage that is described as supernatural. Thus, the hideous description of people of resilience. “Black don’t crack.” However, we know that it does. This novel is not for the unread, or faint of heart. Before attempting this novel, you must be knowledgeable of the Word, history, mythology and literary devices which this author introduces to a new genre of a contemporary writing style. HAPPY READING!Paula Kobina (Retired educator, publisher, and author of Poems for The Times)First of all, this book was written with such imagination and vivid imagery that the characters and storyline take you on a fantasy journey that keeps you on the edge of your seat to see what comes next. Tenesha’s account with her abusive stepfather bridges this fiction with real life advocacy for those who are also victims of sexual abuse. Great job! Can’t wait to read the next part of the story.Monica Matthews-Smith (Entrepreneur, Business Owner, and author of Heart to Mind: The Purpose Identity Workbook)An urban legend haunts her dreams and waking life. Will she figure it out before she is wearing a toe tag?Tenesha Campbell’s name is plastered on the honor roll with each semester, and most people usually look for any excuse to share her breath. However, her mother leaves whelps on her back, stomach, and legs in addition to shoving her head into the walls for little or no reason. Her stepfather leaves bruises upon her body if she does not please him, and a local kingpin promises to bury her family if she does not sell his urban pharmaceuticals. She chases the shadows of an urban legend to disprove it as a means of coping with her situation, but she risks wearing a toe tag upon attracting its attention. Will she survive long enough to solve it, or will she be choking on her own blood before she has a clue?Get your copy to find out what happens next!<

With full-page color illustrations, The Butterfly Catcher is a heart-warming tale that ponders the question "where do our loved ones go when they die?" Through playful verse and a fanciful story, the book communicates to children of all ages how we carry those we love with us always. After a young boy is told by his mother that his lost brother "flies with the butterflies," The Butterfly Catcher follows the boy as he goes in search of his lost brother. Along his journey, the boy encounters a creative cast of characters as he catches one butterfly after another, from the stern intensity of the Swallowtail to the silly playfulness of the Painted Lady to the gruff and grumpy Luna Moth to an encounter with a beautifully wise Monarch. In the end, the boy learns the sweetest of messages, that those we have loved and lost are never far away but live on through each one of us.

Loved More Than You Know was written by a new grandfather, and the content emerged from the question: "If I were not here, what would I want to make sure my grandchildren know?"The story tells of Susie and her miserable day. Her mother and father comfort her by holding her close and explaining to her about the God who loves her, who died for her, and who can live within her. Susie is introduced to the good news that we can know God personally. When another miserable day comes along, Susie has a new outlook and a new hope.Through this book, your children can gain a greater understanding of how much God loves them, grasp the truth they can know God personally and have him in their lives, and learn they can handle anything since God is always with them.

Meet Talitha, a little plaid skirt that likes to travel. Through the years, she visits many two-year-old girls in a special family who wear her to get their pictures taken. But Talitha encounters problems when she least expects it. Filled with colorful and detailed illustrations, young children will delight in this heartwarming story about a little skirt’s adventures.

ReviewsWhen people look at us, all they see is what we present. People always question why we made the choices we made. However, people have no idea what goes on in our homes or our heads. We choose whom we talk to or avoid. This book is a glance into reality for many. This book will walk you through the struggles of impoverished communities and women.Roshawn Evans (Founder of Pure Justice and author of Stolen Identify)The author has made it his duty to pull the reader in by beginning with a present day urban setting with the daily events in the life of students who are competing against each other to have the best grades in school, visits to the local mall, and some dangers that urban neighborhoods are plagued with, according to present day media and reality. However, by the time the reader approaches the middle of the novel, he or she is the introduction of the title character, J. Trouble. J. Trouble is a youth of 14 years of age, born decades earlier, around the turn of the century, in 1930s Louisiana, at the height of Jim Crow, lynchings, sharecropping, and the fight for the civil rights of Black Americans. Thus begins an odyssey: a journey into the turmoil of a black, male youth who witnesses firsthand the aftereffects of American slavery on the non-privileged, at the hand of the “privileged.” The author uses a method of characterization which causes the title character to gain inner strength and courage that is described as supernatural. Thus, the hideous description of people of resilience. “Black don’t crack.” However, we know that it does. This novel is not for the unread, or faint of heart. Before attempting this novel, you must be knowledgeable of the Word, history, mythology and literary devices which this author introduces to a new genre of a contemporary writing style. HAPPY READING!Paula Kobina (Retired educator, publisher, and author of Poems for The Times)First of all, this book was written with such imagination and vivid imagery that the characters and storyline take you on a fantasy journey that keeps you on the edge of your seat to see what comes next. Tenesha’s account with her abusive stepfather bridges this fiction with real life advocacy for those who are also victims of sexual abuse. Great job! Can’t wait to read the next part of the story.Monica Matthews-Smith (Entrepreneur, Business Owner, and author of Heart to Mind: The Purpose Identity Workbook)An urban legend haunts her dreams and waking life. Will she figure it out before she is wearing a toe tag?Tenesha Campbell’s name is plastered on the honor roll with each semester, and most people usually look for any excuse to share her breath. However, her mother leaves whelps on her back, stomach, and legs in addition to shoving her head into the walls for little or no reason. Her stepfather leaves bruises upon her body if she does not please him, and a local kingpin promises to bury her family if she does not sell his urban pharmaceuticals. She chases the shadows of an urban legend to disprove it as a means of coping with her situation, but she risks wearing a toe tag upon attracting its attention. Will she survive long enough to solve it, or will she be choking on her own blood before she has a clue?Get your copy to find out what happens next!

Loved More Than You Know was written by a new grandfather, and the content emerged from the question: “If I were not here, what would I want to make sure my grandchildren know?”The story tells of Susie and her miserable day. Her mother and father comfort her by holding her close and explaining to her about the God who loves her, who died for her, and who can live within her. Susie is introduced to the good news that we can know God personally. When another miserable day comes along, Susie has a new outlook and a new hope.Through this book, your children can gain a greater understanding of how much God loves them, grasp the truth they can know God personally and have him in their lives, and learn they can handle anything since God is always with them.

Loved More Than You Know was written by a new grandfather, and the content emerged from the question: "If I were not here, what would I want to make sure my grandchildren know?"The story tells of Susie and her miserable day. Her mother and father comfort her by holding her close and explaining to her about the God who loves her, who died for her, and who can live within her. Susie is introduced to the good news that we can know God personally. When another miserable day comes along, Susie has a new outlook and a new hope.Through this book, your children can gain a greater understanding of how much God loves them, grasp the truth they can know God personally and have him in their lives, and learn they can handle anything since God is always with them.

Loved More Than You Know was written by a new grandfather, and the content emerged from the question: “If I were not here, what would I want to make sure my grandchildren know?”The story tells of Susie and her miserable day. Her mother and father comfort her by holding her close and explaining to her about the God who loves her, who died for her, and who can live within her. Susie is introduced to the good news that we can know God personally. When another miserable day comes along, Susie has a new outlook and a new hope.Through this book, your children can gain a greater understanding of how much God loves them, grasp the truth they can know God personally and have him in their lives, and learn they can handle anything since God is always with them.