The Jellybean Kid
A tender family-friendly story about a young boy’s difficult health journey
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Sammy knows what it means to be brave. He is an ordinary kid who loves playing with his friends and family, and would eat a bucket of jelly beans—if his mom would let him! But he is also extraordinary. He lives with complex health challenges.
Follow Sammy’s journey—a life full of joys and struggles, pain and comfort, love and hope. Along the way, meet Sammy’s family and friends, and the medical care givers in his world.
The Jellybean Kid is the sixth book in the Compassion Series, written for children and the grownups in their world to foster thoughtful, meaningful, and compassionate conversations in families, classrooms, and communities. The comfort guide will help you process the sensitive experiences unique to young people living with critical or chronic illnesses and other serious health issues. The guide also provides an insightful look at the experiences of family members, health workers, and others who lovingly care for them. Guided by profound, shared real-life insights, this tender book helps children and adults to better support families with a child experiencing chronic or critical illness, and nurtures understanding and compassion among those who have not journeyed the same road.
Tim J Huff
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Tim Huff has led a radical life of service among children, youth, and adults facing profound physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual challenges. His journey of full-time service, learning and advocacy for poor, oppressed, misunderstood and marginalized people has taken him across Canada, the United States and around the world, as both an avid learner and highly sought after speaker and teacher regarding pro-active community building and compassionate responses to domestic poverty, homelessness, marginalization and poverty of spirit.Tim is the author of the award-winning best-sellers Bent Hope; A Street Journal, and Dancing with Dynamite; Celebrating Against the Odds, with a third book in this series for teenagers and adults scheduled for release in fall 2015, titled The Yuletide Factor; Cause for Perpetual Comfort and Joy. He is also the author/illustrator of the award-winning best-selling children's books The Cardboard Shack Beneath the Bridge; Helping Children Understand Homelessness and It's hard Not to Stare: Helping Children Understand Disabilities, with a third book in this series scheduled for release in summer 2015 called The Honour Drum; Sharing First Nations Truth with Children (co-written with acclaimed First Nations teacher Cheryl Bear). Tim, married to Diane, is the father of two beloved young adult children - Sarah Jane and Jake.
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