Thoughtful Considerate Common Sense

“Hurricane at school. High school rocked. Roof blew right off. Air conditioners toppled off the roof. Everything was wrecked.” —Anthony Hels, “Dreams” Thoughtful Considerate Common Sense is a whirlwind, from action scenes to the moment “Hot air punches a hole through the ground. A tornado will swirl right up through it” (“Tornado in Bad Weather”). This book has rhythm: “clap it out / CLAP / CLAP / CLAP / CLAP” (“A Rhyming Poem”). Familiar characters are reinvented, origin stories rewritten, fairytales deconstructed. The natural world is full of storms and also beauty: “I am from the big oak tree out my bedroom window / Making shadows on the wall and swaying in the big winds” (“Where I’m From”). These writers spin unique stories that are sure to shift your thinking. Thoughtful Considerate Common Sense is the fiftieth book from Cow Tipping Press. Cow Tipping Press teaches and publishes writing by people with intellectual/developmental disabilities, giving audiences a new way to think about this rich form of human diversity in practice and in print. Learn more at www.cowtippingpress.org —- ISBN: 9798867824624