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The idea of a story empowering children struggling with the pain of feeling less worthy than their friends manifested itself as I watched my brother being told he was difficult and stubborn when he was unable to sound out simple words. I watched him held back in school, as he watched his friends move forward. I watched a fellow schoolmate demoralized in school when asked to read in front of the class.

 

My work as a Social Service Director  enabled me to teach mentally challenged children to read. 

 

​I remember sitting on my grandfather’s knee as he read me the book, Heidi. Today’s computer age cannot take away the memories and feelings of safety and excitement that happens when a beloved parent or grandparent reads to a child from the child’s own book. Today in most homes, both parents work. The time to read a book is often lost. Drawing close to a child through short 15-minute bedtime stories gives back the closeness in today's complicated world. And teaching a child to read before they start school gives a child a head-start in life and a brighter future.

 

One of the reasons (I believe) children’s movies are often successful, is they also give to a parent a way to experience this same feeling of togetherness in a brief amount of time. And why I wrote two screenplays from the Saga of Keiko & Ruben in the Land of Sounds.  The Saga Story is the universal tragedy of a child being shamed and their journey to overcome hardship in life. 

 

Forty-five million people in the US are functionally illiterate (Literacy Project Foundation).

 

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Coloring Books are in progress.

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carla.hens@gmail.com

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