Ida Finds Her Voice is a revolutionary book created to make tough conversations easier. This is a story about a little girl named Ida who encounters a number of unsettling situations that hurt her friends and family — prejudice, discrimination and intolerance for differences — and how she tries to make sense of it all. With the help of her sidekick, an owl named Smalls, she finds the words to express her feelings and speaks out for kindness, acceptance, and inclusion of all people, cultures and faiths.

Illustrated by Dawn Griffin, and written by cousins Kate Anderson Foley, Ph.D. and Jenifer Anderson-Smith, Ida Finds her Voice provides the icebreaker to help kids AND parents talk about tough topics. This book was successfully kickstarted in 2019, thanks to a supportive community, many of which wound up as caricatures on the last spread below!