This Is Me!

Discover Self-Acceptance, Understanding, Individuality and Growth Through Ten Unique Stories.

Meet ten amazing kids, each with their own unique personality and incredible strengths! This engaging book uses delightful stories to explore important feelings and traits, helping young readers understand themselves and others better. From Olivia’s courage to Tina’s thoughtfulness and Daniel’s carefulness, you’ll see how everyone’s different qualities make the world a richer place. These stories spark important conversations about being yourself, understanding your emotions, and celebrating what makes everyone special!

• Explore Social Emotional Learning (SEL): Engaging stories help kids understand feelings, empathy, and self-awareness.


• Meet Ten Unique Characters: Discover diverse personalities and learn about traits like hastiness, bravery, oversensitivity, unruliness, energetic, thoughtfulness, talkative, perseverance, shyness, argumentative, communicative, stubbornness, perceptiveness, and more!


• Celebrate Individuality: Encourages kids to embrace their own unique qualities and appreciate the differences in others.


• Build Self-Acceptance and Confidence: Helps young readers recognize their own strengths and feel good about who they are.


• Foster Empathy and Understanding: Promotes kindness and appreciation for the diverse ways people think and feel.


• Great for Ages 6-9: Relatable stories and characters make SEL concepts accessible and engaging for young readers.


• Spark Meaningful Conversations: Ideal for discussions at home, in the classroom, or in libraries about identity and acceptance.


• Promotes Personal Growth: Encourages self-reflection and a positive understanding of oneself and others.

For over 75 years, Albatros Media has been crafting original and innovative children’s books that are both playful and educational, fostering curiosity and a thirst for knowledge in young minds. We deliver the highest quality children’s books from novelty, picture, pop-up, and how-to books, to non-fiction, and fairy tale books.

Helena Harastova is a writer, translator, and mother. She graduated in Dramaturgy from the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts, having previously worked for the National Theatre in Brno, Czech Republic. Her most unusual pastime is proofreading texts for errors in spelling, grammar, and style.

Anastasia Kobern is a children’s book illustrator from a small town in Ukraine. She’s working with amazing talented people all around the world. She has a great passion for watercolor and digital hand drawn illustrations. Ana is not just an illustrator, but a mom of two little girls, explorer, sport, dance and music lover, so her days are never boring. She has a mind full of ideas and her main aim is to create interesting books for young readers and to show them the beauty and variety of our world, to teach them how to hear yourself and to understand your feelings & emotions. She adores showing the real life and experiences of ordinary people in her artworks. Her illustrations combine the love for finely defined color palettes with detailed elements and charming characters.