(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
Kelly Jensen
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Talk openly about mental health with thirty-three diverse and empowering actors, athletes, writers, and artists in this Washington Post Best Children's Book. Contributors include: Kristin Bell, Nancy Kerrigan, S. Jae-Jones, Meredith Russo, V.E. Schwab, and Adam Silvera, among many others. Who's Crazy? What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when a label like that gets attached to your everyday experiences? To understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there's no single definition of crazy, there's no single experience that embodies it, and the word itself means different things--wild? extreme? disturbed? passionate?--to different people. In (Don't) Call Me Crazy, thirty-three actors, athletes, writers, and artists offer essays, lists, comics, and illustrations that explore a wide range of topics, including: - Their personal experiences with mental illness;
- How we do and don't talk about mental health;
- Help for better understanding how every person's brain is wired differently;
- What, exactly, might make someone crazy.
Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Publish Date
October 02, 2018
Pages
240
Dimensions
7.0 X 8.9 X 0.7 inches | 1.0 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781616207816
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About the Author
Kelly Jensen is a librarian-turned-editor for Book Riot and Stacked. She's the editor of Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World. She loves eating black licorice and debating genre. Follow her on Twitter: @veronikellymars.
Reviews
A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2018 "Jensen has brought together sharp and vivid perspectives concerning mental-health challenges. Featuring writers such as Shaun David Hutchinson, Libba Bray, Adam Silvera and Esmé Weijun Wang, this book asks questions and provides real-life experiences and hope for the future."
--Washington Post, "Best Children's Books of 2018" "This (crucially!) diverse essay collection spans race, gender, sexual orientation, career, and age to hopefully reduce the stigma around mental illness."
--Bustle "Empowering . . . deeply resonant . . . With this diverse array of contributors offering a stunning wealth of perspectives on mental health, teens looking for solidarity, comfort, or information will certainly be able to find something that speaks to them. Resources and further reading make this inviting, much-needed resource even richer."
--Booklist "Lively, compelling . . . the raw, informal approach to the subject matter will highly appeal to young people who crave understanding and validation . . . This highly readable and vital collection demonstrates the multiplicity of ways that mental health impacts individuals."
--Kirkus Reviews "Thought-provoking . . . Misconceptions about mental health still abound, making this honest yet hopeful title a vital selection."
--School Library Journal, starred review
--Utopia State of Mind
--Washington Post, "Best Children's Books of 2018" "This (crucially!) diverse essay collection spans race, gender, sexual orientation, career, and age to hopefully reduce the stigma around mental illness."
--Bustle "Empowering . . . deeply resonant . . . With this diverse array of contributors offering a stunning wealth of perspectives on mental health, teens looking for solidarity, comfort, or information will certainly be able to find something that speaks to them. Resources and further reading make this inviting, much-needed resource even richer."
--Booklist "Lively, compelling . . . the raw, informal approach to the subject matter will highly appeal to young people who crave understanding and validation . . . This highly readable and vital collection demonstrates the multiplicity of ways that mental health impacts individuals."
--Kirkus Reviews "Thought-provoking . . . Misconceptions about mental health still abound, making this honest yet hopeful title a vital selection."
--School Library Journal, starred review
"This is a much-needed collection of writing about mental health and the impact it has . . . with mental health stigma unfortunately still being a serious problem, teens really need books like this right now."
--Cultured Vultures
--Utopia State of Mind
