Whimsical and charming animal characters give inspirational and philosophical lessons about life's journey in this beautiful picture book. Illustrated by the author.

This book is based on the very simple premise that we are all surrounded by experienced people everywhere, each one a potential teacher. Their collective experiences in all facets of life far surpass what an individual is capable of learning alone. It is also fair to say that one can learn something from every living creature. Sometimes it is an obvious lesson but more often it is not All information is acquired from others but the lessons that you are prepared to learn from that association is what matters. Life does not have to be so difficult Street Smart Kids is offering you a chance to experience a more fulfilling, less stressful life experience, starting right now With nothing to lose, enjoy these thought provoking chapters. Share a few of the messages with someone that is dear to you...or perhaps could or should be. With what today's current generation of preteens, teenagers, young adults, parents, coaches, mentors and teachers have to deal with, just one good idea put into practice can change the course of a life or two. Problems that can't be solved with resources are best solved by prevention, made possible by the implementation of objectivity, common sense and logic. This book is loaded with real life experiences aimed at preventing more than a few hard knocks.

In this down to earth book, parent and soccer coach Gordon Myers shares the wonderful insight into what makes young boys and girls playing soccer tick. The refreshing revelation is that all kids are quite similar as they grow and that wanting to really just have fun is quite evident. It is most often their own parents that take the child out of their children. Kids mess up, get excited, do like winning, care less about losing and do bounce right back as one might hope that they will. Their unique personalities bring character to the team. While self-motivation, even in a child, is a most powerful tool, the wrong motivation could have equally far reaching effects. This jovial, true to life, story should bring a warm smile to the reader as they experience the adventures of some very lucky kids at play in a very big playground.

Bananas are taken for granted today as part of the diet of ordinary people in industrial countries. In the Windward Islands of the Caribbean, bananas provided around one-third of all jobs and half their export earnings - until recent WTO rulings began to undermine the industry. Much of this trade and employment has now disappeared as a result of these rulings; and at the end of 2005, the EU is due to give up the last non-tariff measures designed to enable this trade to continue. Unemployment, poverty, and further emigration therefore loom over these islanders, or the tempting alternative of growing and trading in illegal drugs. And all because WTO rules take too little account of the problems of tiny island economies and the human cost of rigid application of global free-trade rules. In this absorbing history, Gordon Myers tells the extraordinary story of how the US government, in response to grievances of one American corporation, led the World Trade Organisation to nullify a European Community commitment to protect the livelihood of small Caribbean banana growers. The WTO's own working practices also emerge as inflexible and myopic. The story illustrates the inadequacy of an international trading system dominated by free-trade ideology but lacking the flexibility necessary to enable very small and highly vulnerable states, like the Windward Islands, to receive the protection that they need in order to survive. Moreover, increasingly powerful supermarket chains are able to exploit this free-trade framework to insist on ever lower prices, to the short-term benefit of consumers but the serious detriment of growers in the developing world. This book is a call for new arrangements in the EU that will enable the Caribbean banana industry to survive beyond 2005, and for an outlook in the WTO that gives greater consideration to the needs of very small states with vulnerable economies.