(don't) Call Me Crazy
33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · Print & ebook · October 2, 2018
Talk openly about mental health with thirty-three diverse and empowering actors, athletes, writers, and artists in this Washington Post Best Children's Book.
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- Who it’s for
- A graphic, discussion-ready collection centered on teen mental health and lived experience.
- Genres
- YA Mental Health, Depression & Mental Health for Teens, Emotions & Feelings for Teens
- Published
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, October 2, 2018
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Talk openly about mental health with thirty-three diverse and empowering actors, athletes, writers, and artists in this Washington Post Best Children's Book. Contributors include: Kristin Bell, Nancy Kerrigan, S. Jae-Jones, Meredith Russo, V.E. Schwab, and Adam Silvera, among many others. 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?
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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, actors, athletes, writers, and artists offer essays, lists, comics, and illustrations that explore a wide range of topics, including: - 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; - 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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A graphic, discussion-ready collection centered on teen mental health and lived experience.
Come here for
- teen mental health, in a graphic social-topics frame
- conversation-starting format
Expect
- short voices, varied perspectives
- direct material for talking it through
Where it sits
| YA Mental Health | 91% |
|---|---|
| Depression & Mental Health for Teens | 62% |
| Emotions & Feelings for Teens | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Depression & Mental Health for Teens
- Substance Abuse & Addiction for Teens
- Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens
- Emotions & Feelings for Teens
- Authors
- Kelly Jensen
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Published
- October 2, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Depression & Mental Health for Teens