by C. Kevin Wanzer

Illustrated by Kristin Tuller

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A picture book and a poem about the only choices that really matter.

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In 1992, Kevin woke in the middle of the night in a Columbus, Georgia hotel room and reached for the notepad on the nightstand. The words of a poem had just visited him in a dream, and he wrote them all down. He kept that poem to himself for fifteen years.

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When he finally published the first edition of Choose to Love in 2005, he dedicated it to his first adopted child. The message, at the heart of the book and at the heart of everything Kevin does on stage, is deceptively simple: we can't control a lot of things, but we can always choose how we treat each other.

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Audiences have been inspired by it ever since. A few dozen lines that take two minutes to read. The kind of thing you'll think about much longer. Parents tell Kevin they read it to their kids all the time, and that the children are the ones asking for it.

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Look closely at every illustration. Each one hides at least one heart.

 

The current edition is multilingual. Every line appears in English, Spanish, and Arabic, together on each page.

 

72 pages

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Order on Amazon (8"x8" paperback) or order direct from us (6"x6" hardcover) for a personalized, autographed copy.