Samantha Cotterill
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252 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2019
last heard Dec 2019
Samantha Cotterill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We're wanting to give them reading materials to help them see that they're not alone.
And there's a lot of other kids that see the world the way they do, that presenting them with books that don't scream out on the cover, a label or like you have ADD or Millie is fidgety, that they may be more responsive to wanting to pick up that book and read the book and may recognize themselves, which
in itself would help spark a conversation between caregiver and child or teacher and child that can help set them on a path of understanding a bit more about themselves and gaining any tools that they may need as they navigate the world growing up.
Well, it's something that I've always wanted to do.
It's been in the back of my head.
And my agent, Kirsten Hall, was really the instigator in terms of she just gave me the push and the encouragement to put these out there simply because these are books I wish I had had as a child.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s, so clearly...
it wasn't as known as it is today.
And I just grew up in a world of feeling like I was awkward.
I was the odd one out.
And there were quote unquote isms within myself that I thought of as negative traits and didn't really quite understand why I would think certain ways about things that no one else around me felt the same way.
And if I had these books and
it would have helped me to kind of gain more self-confidence and not feel, have such a low self-esteem going into those crucial years of social interactions and just growing up.
I think these would have just been so helpful for me.
And that's part of why I thought I have this ability to write something and illustrate something and put it out into the world and
why not create something that can help others and possibly create a connective relationship within families that I have the chance to provide.
So why not go for it and give it a shot?
Yeah, well, when we put the pitch together, I wrote a rough draft for Nope Never Not For Me, which was the first one that I had written.
And we put together a package that included the manuscript for Nope Never with a couple sample art images included.
And then just some suggestive title ideas of future books, knowing that we wanted to put a series together.
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