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American Artist Kris Courtney

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Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir by Kris Courtney

Online Reading - It's OK Scooter™ ( Youtube Video )

 It's OK Scooter™ - Fictional Children's Book

 

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 It’s Ok Scooter ™

Written by:  Kris Courtney

Illustration by:
American Artist Kris Courtney
*
Judy Cowan Lee

Copyright © 2015 Kris Courtney – www.kriscourtney.com
All rights reserved.
ISBN-13: 978-1507623725
ISBN-10: 1507623720

“It’s OK to be Different” @ItsOKScooter

 Ability is as Ability Does...

As written, a New Children’s Book, It’s OK Scooter™

(Published & Released May 15^th, 2015 in SW Florida) by Author & American Artist Kris Courtney inspires kids to look past what we do not understand to those characteristics that make us all more alike than different! As many who fear what they do not understand may ask; “What happened to you?” a childlike answer would serve as a familiar response to avoid justification to being broken, “That’s just the way ‘It was supposed to be”  The word It, becomes a personal reference!

As a child with profound disabilities that included multiple amputations, birth defects and deformities, I began life at age 3 days confined to a full body cast and the isolation of being different.  

In my first book & personal memoir,  Norma Jean’s Sun:

I authored a detailed and engaging perspective of this life as a child with disabilities.  In that accounting, it was clear that I had more messages to author and one of those would be to a younger audience.  Having a Beagle Dog named “Scooter” as a kid, although not disabled, His ability to Love, Forgive and Champion beyond his own life to inspire others with complete and child-like acceptance is a message of Hope presented in this Fictional Children’s Book!

Scooter itself in a name offers a smile to those who read this 26 page Illustrated & Rhythmic dialogue to a journey from the Indiana Farm on a cold and windy winter night. Born as a runt in a litter of five, soon it is clear that Scooter was different from the rest!  Not knowing what or how to adapt, Scooter is soon taken away to a shelter and left to be forgotten…  And although those of us who have daily fears and struggle that are not taken to animal shelters to be forgotten, there are parallels to this journey that some will relate to a more personal emotion.  And in the same light of life, Scooter is soon rescued by the innocent gift of love offered by a child seeking a friend.  Perhaps we all can associate to our own advocate in life that has always stood firm in our shadow, pushing us to the front for a personal identity beyond the disability…  And in that single moment of courage or champion of task, life becomes more about Ability!

 

In the midst of Celebration, the reader will continue to follow Scooter & Ginger into a life of value and coming into their own!  For this author, it personally took me 45 years to finally become myself!  As the challenge of youth, destructive behaviors and attempts to become a defined image of normal, my life always took on a repetitive pattern of not good enough, basic flaws or lacking the same gifts of those who appeared to be in such warm light of a reflective life. A mirror has always been quick to remind me of the precipice that sits just a step away.  But ultimately as with most who cross into a life of ability, a series of events rewrite an ending to my life and Scooters!  His journey full circle through the Seasons brings him into a place of Service & Gratitude for a path of purpose and direction!  As those who follow will soon discover in the end, we are all more alike than we are different!  A personal lesson that has fueled my creativity to author other perspectives related to a life considered broken by social standards!  

It’s OK Scooter™ also contains a 4 page set of coloring illustrations and biographies of Kris Courtney & Judy Cowan Lee (Co-Illustrator).  Also Contained, the reader (Age 3-8) will discover an artistic expression through colorful images, easy to understand language and joyful subtle messages that will leave most with the overwhelming conclusion that “It’s OK to be Different”

It’s OK Scooter™ - Facebook, Twitter @ItsOKScooter
 

Books can also be found online at Amazon & CreateSpace

For more information, please visit: www.kriscourtney.com

It’s OK Scooter™

Norma Jean’s Sun

It's OK Scooter™ New Children's Book

It's OK Scooter™ 

Children's Book, New Release

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Available Immediately (Pre-Release)

 

A Children's Book written by American Artist Kris Courtney & Co-Illustrated by Judy Cowan Lee that tells an inspirational story of a Puppy that finds a way to be of Service and Just be OK...  Available on Amazon in Kindle & Paperback

 

 

 Written by: Kris Courtney

Illustration by:
American Artist Kris Courtney * Judy Cowan Lee

ISBN-13: 978-1507623725 - ISBN-10: 1507623720

It's OK Scooter™ - Fictional Children's Book, is available for download & purchase of 1st Edition Through CreateSpace.com & Amazon.com.

As a child with disabilities, Originally from Indiana and later growing up in the Mohave California Desert, I cherished a friend who followed my every step in the beginning. Silly and awkward, always gay and dancing without reference to the world around him, my Beagle Dog Scooter was in a world of his own. His ability to Love, Forgive and Champion beyond his own life to inspire others with complete and child-like acceptance is a message of Hope presented in this Fictional Children’s Book.

Drawn to benevolence and disability awareness by his personal experience, an artist in spirit and gift, Courtney is dedicated to service and participation beyond disabilities. His canvas derives from images that move him to allow freedom of spirit in both paint and words.

American Artist Kris Courtney, Author of Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir

It's OK Scooter™ - Fictional Children's Book

It’s Ok Scooter ™

Written by:

KrisCourtney

Illustration by:

American Artist Kris Courtney

*

Judy Cowan Lee

Copyright © 2015 Kris Courtney – www.kriscourtney.com

All rights reserved.

ISBN-13: 978-1507623725

ISBN-10: 1507623720

As a child with disabilities, Originally from Indiana and later growing up in the Mohave California Desert, I cherished a friend who followed my every step in the beginning. Silly and awkward, always gay and dancing without reference to the world around him, my Beagle Dog ‘Scooter was in a world of his own. His ability to Love, Forgive and Champion beyond his own life to inspire others with complete and child-like acceptance is a message of Hope presented in this Fictional Children’s Book!

Scheduled for Release June2015

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