Have You Seen My Friends? presents the importance of treasuring our creativity, courage, and curiosity every day! As we grow older, we somehow forget to value how important it is to ask questions, try new things, and think differently. This playful book reminds you to treasure these “friends,” who are always near.

About Have You Seen My Friends?

Creative intelligence is important to get right—right from the start. Aimed at ages 5-8, Have You Seen My Friends? immerses readers in the humorous, lyrical adventure of a character in search of its dear friends, Courage, Curiosity, and Creativity. It marries the traditional children’s picture book format to today’s conversations around creativity, friendship, and teamwork by encouraging young readers to connect with the creative world and, beyond that, talk about their reactions.

Throughout the story, the character learns how to find them and reflects on the important message of friendship, mindset, and creativity. To give each of these friends a personality, Kang portrays them in animal figures that readers could relate to – Curiosity the Monkey, Courage the Owl, and Creativity the White Rabbit. These characters are illustrated through the fantastical original drawings of Khadeeja Qureshi. Have You Seen My Friends? is sure to stand apart in delighting and enlightening all readers.

Have You Seen My Friends? is a book about someone losing their courage, curiosity, and creativity. They ask for help from some friendly-looking creatures to help them locate their missing friends.

Throughout the book, the creatures ask questions such as what the missing friends look like? When did they last see them? Etc. The person explains the differences between them and that as they have gotten older they stopped asking questions or being so brave and thought that being an adult meant all about being serious.

The picture book is certainly unusual in that it comes across as a colourful, vibrant, intriguing book for children, yet, it speaks to adults about growing older and keeping hold of their courage, creativity, and curiosity.

This would be a wonderful book to share with your child in which you could both learn something. It is very true that as we age many of us prefer the comfortable way of living and forget all our curiosities, etc that we had as children. We tend to do things we enjoy and don’t try new things for fear of not being good at them, making a fool of ourselves, and many more reasons.

Teaching children to hold on to these whilst learning to embrace them again as adults is what this book is about. It is a quick read but packs a powerful punch whilst giving you a lovely enjoyable story.

Monica H. Kang is a creative educator who is transforming today’s workforce through the power of creativity. She is driven by the belief that everyone is innately creative and that creativity can be used to catalyze personal and professional change. As the Founder and CEO of InnovatorsBox®, her deepest satisfaction comes from seeing individuals realize their full potential and talents through creativity. Through her innovative workshops, consulting, products, and curriculum, Monica teaches creativity in a tangible, practical, and relatable way regardless of industry or job title.

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