Nancy S Mure: 8 books

Imagine a caterpillar not wanting to become a butterfly. When another caterpillar, Franny, informs Nelle they must turn into butterflies, Nelle resists the change. When Franny reappears as a beautiful monarch butterfly, she motivates her feeble friend with a single phrase - you only have to want to...

Imagine a dot so bored with its existence that it decides to take a journey. In “I am a Dot,” Dot encounters many characters along the way: a line, a hook, a semi-circular line and other dots.  With each new relationship, Dot learns more about how it feels and what it wants through a selective...

Hillary is a chameleon who lives in the rain forest. She is pink. The other lizards reject her because of her color. Determined to befriend them, she displays stellar hunting and climbing skills but her efforts fail. Exhausted and rejected, Hillary becomes saddened causing her scales to change during...

Mr. Martinelli, a good-natured pizza man, is amazed to see twelve green parrots – tropical birds – on the electrical wires outside of his pizzeria in January.  He feeds the birds a scattering of breadcrumbs, but the parrots snub his offerings: they want rice balls!

Americans have a self-care problem that manifests itself through weight. We are a nation plagued by disempowering weight loss beliefs that become the larger story we tell ourselves about who we are and what's possible for us. To engage with food at a different level we must learn to create empowering...

Irregular Joe is a story about being unique. Each Sunday, and especially on holidays, the Normali family gathers for dinner. They are a large family, yet young Joe feels ordinary among them. In Irregular Joe each family member is named Joe in some form. When a family member announces a new addition...

Massimo’s Meatballs is a fun story about a young boy and his Sunday ritual of eating meatballs. The lighthearted events unfold as Massimo realizes that his father is not there to make the Sunday treat of traditional Italian meatballs. Massimo takes the task on himself! He recalls the recipe from...

Papa in the Sky, told gently in a child’s voice, is an inspiriting story about death and heaven. The Author describes heaven as a glorious table where everyone eventually gathers to eat and there's always an empty chair waiting... The imaginative journey begins with a young girl Ruby, along with...