Custom Built

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Meet the cheetah cubs Chelsea, Chadwick, Christina, Chevron, and Charlotte, five gifted youngsters who exhibit exceptionalities across the spectrum of ability. Together, these cubs illustrate several of the difficulties commonly encountered by gifted children, and yet they all also demonstrate how to deal with such issues in a positive and often a proactive way.

In Custom Built, Chadwick is the athletically gifted cheetah cub who loves to tumble, jump rope, and sprint. The trouble is that his friend Tiger can’t do those things well. Chadwick wants to help Tiger achieve at the same level, but Tiger simply is not built the same. Chadwick thinks that friendship is based on doing the same things, so he holds back in order to be a good friend.

The cheetah cubs are based on renowned author Stephanie S. Tolan's now-famous cheetah metaphor for gifted children. Cheetahs are the fastest animal in the world, but if we put restrictions on them and hold them back, Tolan posits, would they still be cheetahs? If a cheetah was caged and never allowed to run, would it be a cheetah? If a cheetah were fed only zoo chow so that it was left undernourished, would it still be a cheetah? If a cheetah never learned how to be a proper cheetah, would we ever say that it was not, in fact, a cheetah? These illustrated picture books are for young gifted children who need help understanding the difficulties that come with their gifts and who must learn to appreciate their strengths rather than focus on their struggles. Each book tells an engaging story, which is followed by pages for the child that contain questions and activities for the child to enjoy, as well as pages for parents that offer information about the topic at hand and tips about what to talk about with the child. These books are an important first step toward enabling gifted children to feel good about themselves for exactly who they are.

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