During a recent back-to-school block party in Van Buren, Fort Smith seventh-grade science teacher Patti Farris hugs two youngsters who are showing off crafts made during her book reading. is devoting her semi-retirement to encouraging children to make conscious decisions through a series of books she is self-publishing. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Cheryl Scott)
“Today I Choose Happy!” is a new children’s book written by self-proclaimed “zany, life-outside-the-box” author Patti Farris of Mountainburg. This is Book No. 1 in a series of stories told through the voices of colorfully illustrated animal characters.
As in real life, none of the characters is perfect, and some days can be quite rotten. But as she puts it, “smiling by choice makes the bad soon forgotten.” In Book No. 1, Farris follows the daily activities of a pig named Petunia Pickle. Petunia and her forest friends educate readers about an amazing superpower that can turn what could have been a very bad day into “The Best Day Ever!”: the superpower of “choice.”
Print Headline: Middle-school teacher self-publishes ‘Today I Choose Happy,’ her first in a children’s book series
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