Maybe it’s the ocean in the morning or maybe it is something about your friends.

Take a moment and think about something that is very important to you-it can be family, or that tree that you climbed when you were five. We all have stories, so we all have the folklore. Imagination Activity with Amber McBrideĪccording to a dictionary definition, folklore is, “The traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community passed down through word-of-mouth.” Folklore has often been called the history of the people-with a pinch of magic: stories noting the wisdom of Anansi the spider or tales explaining what it means when it is pouring rain but sunny outside. Enjoy the following activity contributed by Amber McBride. TeachingBooks asks each author or illustrator on our Virtual Book Tour to share a writing prompt, a drawing exercise, or just an interesting question to spark curiosity and creativity.

Explore TeachingBooks’ collection of activities and resources for We Are All So Good at Smiling.

Read along with an audiobook performance of We Are All So Good at Smiling.

Listen to author Amber McBride pronounce her name.

You can click the player below or experience the recording on TeachingBooks, where you can read along as you listen, and also translate the text to another language.

Listen to Amber McBride talking with TeachingBooks about creating We Are All So Good at Smiling. “This is what I know: / my name is Whimsy and magic is real.” Click here to view a longer preview of We Are All So Good at Smiling, by Amber McBride. From National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride, this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse explores clinical depression and healing from trauma.įrom We Are All So Good at Smiling, by Amber McBride. Together, they discover the Forest holds monsters, fairy tales, and pain that they have both been running from for 11 years. The Forest might hold the answers to the part of Faerry he feels is missing. They are both terrified of the forest at the end of Marsh Creek Lane. And when Faerry and his family move to the same street, the two start to realize that their lifelines may have twined and untwined many times before. When she meets a boy named Faerry, she recognizes they both have magic in the marrow of their bones. Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of clinical depression.

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