Candace Is Selling A Book

My goal was to sell 50 books for her in 2009. As of December 18, 2009 I had sold only 18 books.  But lately things are really picking up as folks forward this page to their friends.

As of 1/15/13. I am now up to 83 books sold for Candace.

The latest purchase is from Hayward, WI. Thank you to all you purchasers from Pocatello, ID; Cole Camp, MO,Montgomery, NY; Newburgh, NY; Rhinebeck, NY; Gilford, NH; Cincinnati, OH; Boulder, CO; Rockledge, FL; Washington's Crossing, PA; Clark, NJ; Euharlee, GA (who bought 6 books and told us to donate three!); King of Prussia, PA (who told us to donate the book she bought) ;Providence RI; Marcy, NY; Owings, MD; Lewiston, ME; Downers Grove, IL; Oceanside, NY; Sturbridge, MA; Corydon, IN; Milton, DE; Manhattan Beach, CA; Salem, NH; St Augustine, FL; Bloomington, IL; Manchester, NJ; Middletown, NY(2); Mt. Pleasant, SC; Huntington Beach, CA; New Windsor, NY; South Ogden, UT; Cooperstown, ND; Hot Springs Village, AR;  Nashville, TN;  Lindale, TX; Chicago, IL; Bagdad Iraq; Ulster Co NY; Mansfield, TX and all around these great States United.

Please think of her if you need a gift for someone. And pass the word.

Candace is selling a book to save up $277,839 for her surgeries

 I am a salesman and I make my living with my product line. Imagine this little kid working her way through childhood selling her product line: a book. Her Grandma, the author, is out there beating the bushes doing book signings all over the place to drum up sales.

Candace Chantel Battiste was born on June 18, 1999 with Giant Congenital Nevus, a very rare skin disorder. To date, Candace has had ten surgical procedures to remove the potentially cancerous skin from her face. This precious child is in need of many additional surgeries to complete the removal of the remaining nevus and to correct disfigurement of her eye, nose, and mouth.

Candace is a very special little girl who is
very much like other children. She loves to
have fun, make new friends, play ball, jump
rope and dance. Some day, she wants to become
a fashion model like her friend, Tyra.

I was very impressed that this girl's grandma authored and published a book to help their own cause.

MY NAME IS NOT MONKEY GIRL was inspired after a child called Candace a monkey girl.  At the time, Candace was approaching her to play.

My Name is Not Monkey Girl serves as a tremendous resource for parents, teachers, grandparents, schools and libraries alike. It was written with the aim of teaching children the importance of unconditional kindness, patience, love, tolerance and compassion.

Author Miriam Jacobs is on a mission. The seven-time author has set out to raise funds for facial reconstructive surgeries for her granddaughter, Candace.

Along the way, she is promoting tolerance, education, and compassion for those who have Giant Congenital Nevus; a rare skin disorder that Candace was born with.

The Times Herald Record did an article on this family and they have been in my thoughts ever since.

Book For Sale

I have a goal to buy 50 books from them this year. With your help I sold the first 10 and have bought more.

So I figure, hey, maybe some of my customers will add a book or two on the orders that they are already placing with me. I ordered a book from Candace to check it out. It is just wonderful. If you have kids in your family who like books or if you give books as gifts, then pick up a couple of these books to give.

So I bought 10 books to sell here at The Flag Guys.®  They cost me $10.47 each with the shipping to get them to me and that is exactly what I am charging for them. I sold those ten and now I have bought 20 more. Help me by buying them so I can replace them with another 20 books I'll buy from them.

MY NAME IS NOT MONKEY GIRL $10.87 #CAN plus s/h per my order form

The entire $10.87 already went to Candace. Your purchase will make it possible for me to buy more books from them.

Please pass on to your friends the link to this page; help this family help themselves.

My Name Is Not Monkey Girl

By Miriam L. Jacobs
Illustrated By Cheryl Derocher

Softcover  Page Count: 52   Size: 8.5" x 8.5"

WHAT'S THE STORY

Nine-year-old Candace was born with a birthmark called a Giant Congenital Nevus.

This condition is very rare and frightens many children away from her before they even get to know what a lovely friend she can be. Candace explains, in her own way, what her world is like. See what it is like to be a real friend in this adventure of a day in the life of a child as seen through the eyes of a little girl who was born with a Nevus on her face.

Read My Name is Not Monkey Girl with your child to educate them on tolerance, compassion and unconditional love.

One in more than 200,000 babies is born with a nevus of this considerable size and located on the face.

Two surgeries a year are tentatively scheduled until she turns thirteen years of age.

The goal is to raise $277,839 to defray costs of the hospital operating room fees which are partially covered by the family's health insurance.

Anesthesiologist fees, travel expenses from New York to Chicago, and accommodations for Candace's ten day post-operative stay in Chicago are not covered.

This family is in continued need of your help.

Most of us have a chance to get going with life before we are eventually challenged with a major medical problem. How must it feel to spend your childhood dealing with one each and every day. Childhood is supposed to be for other things.

Thank you for buying Candace's book.