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Becoming better grownups : rediscovering what matters and remembering how to fly / written and illustrated by Brad Montague.

by Montague, Brad.

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Conduct of life.

9780525537847 (hc.)

319 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Welcome -- "The incredible floating girl" Part one: First flight -- Raise your hand if you are here -- It's playtime -- All over the map -- Here come the joy rebels -- Tiny masterpieces -- "The incredible floating girl" Part two: Forgetting -- Six words from Fred -- Be who you needed -- The better question -- Pep talks and space jams -- How to grow -- "The incredible floating girl" Part three: The great remembering -- Answering the call -- The wonder society -- Songs that time forgot -- Little nudges -- Stay Sparky.

When his first book tour ended, Brad Montague missed hearing other people's stories so much that he launched what he dubbed a Listening Tour. First visiting elementary schools and later also nursing homes and retirement communities, he hoped to glean new wisdom as to how he might become a better grownup. Now, in this playful and buoyant book, he shares those insights with rest of us --timeless, often surprising lessons that bypass the head we're always stuck in, and go straight to the heart we sometimes forget. Each of the book's three sections begins with the illustrated story of "The Incredible Floating Girl." Brad weaves this story together with lessons of success, fear, regret, gratitude, love, happiness, and dreams to reveal the true reason we are here: to fly, and to help others fly. Beautifully designed and featuring Montague's own whimsical 4-color illustrations that appeal to the kid in all of us, Becoming Better Grownups shares the purpose and meaning we can all discover merely by listening, and reveals that--in a world that seems increasingly childish--the secret to joy is in fact to become more childlike.

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