Bear and Bee
Big Emotions
by Liz Forsberg
Big feelings are easier with a friend.
Ages 2–6EmotionsFriendshipEmpathy
All booksWhy it matters
by Chris Forsberg · Ages 3–8
The Story of Force
A Little Cat with a Big Dream
“Never give up. Never stop dreaming.”
Force is a little rescue cat with one enormous dream: to race. Three-time Formula Drift champion Chris Forsberg wrote this book for the kids who wait at his pit wall. Smoke, confetti, sold-out grandstands, and a cat who will not quit. It ends the only way it could: never give up, never stop dreaming.
Ages 3–8DreamsPerseveranceCourage
Where to find it
Available at the track. Sales support Shine with Stories.
Look for the merch tent on a race weekend. Say hello while you are there.
Where the foundation began
One picture book, sold from a merch tent.
Force is a rescue cat. Small, scruffy, and absolutely certain he belongs on a podium. Chris wrote him for the kids who turn up at the pit wall already knowing exactly what they want to be.
Copies went out between runs, and kids came back the next round wanting to talk about the story. That was the moment the idea stopped being an idea. A picture book could put reading in front of children who do not have many books at home. Every copy sold at the track goes to work for Shine with Stories.
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At the track
Force is sold at the merch tent, race weekend after race weekend, to the kids already lined up at the pit wall.
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Into the fund
Those sales support Shine with Stories. That merch tent is where the foundation began.
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Onto a shelf
Books reach young readers, preschool through 2nd grade, the years a reader is made.
“Never give up. Never stop dreaming.”from the last page of The Story of Force
Inside the foundationMore from the shelf
More stories to read next.
Same family, same idea, very different worlds.
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