{"id":1670,"date":"2024-03-04T05:50:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T13:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2024-03-02T11:32:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T19:32:05","slug":"i-am-a-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/i-am-a-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am a Masterpiece!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/iamamasterpiecefc.jpg?resize=525%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20918\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>I Am a Masterpiece!<\/em><br \/>\nby Mia Armstrong (Author) and Alexandra Thompson (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3uKBT0V\">Amazon<\/a>* | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9780593567975\">Bookshop<\/a>*<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Mia likes many of the things other people like&#8211;going to the beach, the color blue, drawing. But she doesn&#8217;t like when strangers stare at her because she looks different from them.<\/p>\n<p>Down syndrome allows Mia to see and understand the world in a way that may not make sense to others. She considers it her superpower&#8211;and instead of it making her strange, she considers herself a masterpiece. As we all are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> I know people aren&#8217;t used to seeing someone like me. I tell them, &#8220;Don&#8217;t whisper. Don&#8217;t look away. Do say hello.&#8221; I have Down syndrome and I like myself exactly the way I am. I just want people to be nice to me and to like me for who I am, too.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. <em>(*bookstore affiliate<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Am a Masterpiece! by Mia Armstrong (Author) and Alexandra Thompson (Illustrator) @ Amazon* | Bookshop* Booktalk: Mia likes many of the things other people like&#8211;going to the beach, the color blue, drawing. But she doesn&#8217;t like when strangers stare at her because she looks different from them. Down syndrome allows Mia to see and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/i-am-a-masterpiece\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Am a Masterpiece!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-qW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1128,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/mia-hamm-striking-gold\/","url_meta":{"origin":1670,"position":0},"title":"Mia Hamm: Striking Gold","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"August 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Mia Hamm: Striking Gold by Joe Levit (Author) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Soccer superstar Mia Hamm was a goal-scoring machine. 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