(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health

Description

A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2018 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: 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, and what, exactly, might make someone
crazy. If you’ve ever struggled with your mental health, or know someone who
has, come on in, turn the pages . . . and let’s get talking. This award-
winning anthology is from the highly-praised editor of Here We Are: Feminism
for the Real World and Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy. .
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Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Algonquin Young Readers; Illustrated edition (October 2, 2018)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 6
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 16
• Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 – 18 years
• Grade level ‏ : ‎ 9 – 12
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.5 x 9 inches