New Book: Journey with Idam and his Dog as you Touch and Feel a Genocide

Buy my touch and feel book EVEN before it’s manufactured, printed and packaged: Send $16 through the Substack Stripe/Paulo Kirk; I will get $7 of it to Palestine (https://www.healpalestine.org/about-us/ )

HEAL Palestine is a nonpolitical, nonreligious U.S.-registered nonprofit founded in 2024 to deliver urgent relief and long-term support to Palestinian children and families. Through our four pillars—Health, Education, Aid, and Leadership—we provide critical care and resources while centering grassroots leadership and community-led recovery. Our work is rooted in dignity, resilience, and the belief that every child deserves the chance to heal and thrive.

RE: These are HIGHLY popular touch-and-feel books for kiddos. Sharpen your claws–and scratching skills–with this adorable touch-and-feel book about a cat who loves to scratch everything…and wants you to join the fun.

Hi there, human
I’m Scratchie the Cat
and I like to scratch stuff
to keep my claws super sharp.

Let’s scratch things together

Join Scratchie the Cat to scratch touch-and-feel elements throughout this story. Rough door mats, grainy wooden tables, paper towels, cardboard boxes, and more give readers a claws-on experience as they innocently wreck Scratchie’s owner’s house (just like real cats)

With touch-and-feel elements on every page, Scratchie even has the perfect ending, because there’s one more thing that loves to be scratched: Scratchie the Cat,

Now now now.

So, who will publish this one, uh, and market it, uh, and it doesn’t have to be just for a 5- or 6-year-old audience?

How about adults reading this, and for every $16.00, $5 goes to me, $7 goes to Palestine, and $4 goes to shipping and handling.

The modern Free Palestine Version: Journey with Idam and his Dog as you Touch and Feel a Genocide from a Kiddo’s Point of View

 

 

All The Quiet Things: DIY Touch and Feel Book

 

Necklaces made from rocket shrapnel by Yedidya and Shiran Harush (Credit: Rocket Necklace)

 

 

 

 

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Paul Haeder has been a teacher, social worker, newspaperman, environmental activist, and marginalized muckraker, union organizer. Paul's book, Reimagining Sanity: Voices Beyond the Echo Chamber (2016), looks at 10 years (now going on 17 years) of his writing at Dissident Voice. Read his musings at LA Progressive. Read (purchase) his short story collection, Wide Open Eyes: Surfacing from Vietnam now out, published by Cirque Journal. Here's his Amazon page with more published work Amazon. Read other articles by Paul, or visit Paul's website.