Spring 2025

The Fearless Storyteller

  • Interest Level: Preschool - Grade 3
  • Reading Level: Grade 2

When a young girl’s father is scared of the unicorns in her book, she hides it to protect him.

At the next bedtime, she selects a book about giraffes, which are much less scary. Right? Wrong!

After her dad helps her overcome a fear of her own, he reveals that he is scared of the words in her books, not the animals. Together the father and daughter use positive visualizations to overcome their fears.

Based on Cassie Silva’s own experience growing up with an ESL (English as a second language) parent, this story is a love letter to all the ESL and illiterate parents and grandparents who get asked to read children bedtime stories.

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978-1-958372-77-7
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Interest Level Preschool - Grade 3
Reading Level Grade 2
Genre Picture Books
Category SEL: B Self-Management, SEL: C Social Awareness, SEL: D Relationship Skills, SEL: E Responsible Decision-Making, Social Emotional Learning
Copyright 2025
Publisher Soaring Kite Books
Imprint Soaring Kite Books
Language English
Number of Pages 32
Publication Date 2025-04-01
Text Type Fiction
BISACS JUV047000, JUV039050, JUV013060
Dimensions 9 x 9
Guided Reading Level TBD
Features Author/Illustrator biography and Original artwork

Author: Cassie Silva

Cassie Silva is an author of multiple children’s books and a social worker of Portuguese heritage living in Vancouver, Canada. Cassie loves volunteering, books, cats, and ice cream.

Illustrator: Ana Zurita

Ana Zurita lives in Spain. She was born by the sea in Valencia, where she completed her studies in Fine Arts. She is a big fan of the beach in winter, the color yellow, the smell of old books, and heavy blankets. She has illustrated many picture books.