Simon is a boy with doubts about himself.
Both are much needed these days..
They bring a smile to my face and a sense of hope to my heart.
I love coming across books like this.
It will capture young readers as much as I was captured by it.
This is heartwarming and heart wrenching - a truth that is familiar to many of us, including adults, but is magnified in youth.
I wish I had read Climb On Simon then to help me see I had choices.
My childhood was also spent feeling that I was somehow inadequate.
My 12-year-old keeps it on his bedside table.
A beautifully simple story told beautifully.
What readers are saying...
He climbs out of a seemingly overwhelming situation by taking on a role with younger campers that creates more success than he could have imagined.
When Simon is presented with an opportunity to go to sleepaway camp, he discovers that the secret to happiness is not so much in the getting as the giving.
He initially hopes to solve this problem by having and doing things that will make him seem "enough" in the eyes of others, but this never seems to fill the hole he feels inside.
He worries that he is not "enough""-not cool enough or good enough to feel secure and be liked.
Simon is a boy with doubts about himself
