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The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be by Joanna Gaines
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The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be

$3.14

Length 3 minutes
Language English
Narrators Emmie Kay Gaines & Joanna Gaines

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In the #1?New York Times?bestseller,?The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be, Joanna Gaines celebrates how creativity and acceptance can come together to make for a bright and beautiful adventure. The book, illustrated by Julianna Swaney, follows a group of children as they each build their very own hot-air balloons. As the kids work together, leaning into their own skills and processes, we discover that the same is true for lifeโ€”it's more beautiful and vibrant when our differences are celebrated.

Together with Joanna, you and your kids will take a journey of growth and imagination as you learn in full color to


  • celebrate every child's one-of-a-kind strengths and differences;

  • embrace teamwork;

  • share our talents and abilities to make everything more beautiful; and

  • lend a helping hand and do our best to show kindness and take care of one another.

The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be?is a vibrant picture book perfect for


  • children ages 4โ€“8;

  • grandparents, parents, teachers, and librarians;

  • classroom story times and discussions about diversity and being a good human being;

  • households that enjoy watching Chip and Joanna on Magnolia Network and HGTV's?Fixer Upper; and

  • holiday or Christmas gift-giving, birthdays, graduations, or other celebrations.

With plenty of pink, a bounty of blue, orange and green and yellow too, this vibrant hot-air balloon adventure celebrates every child and teaches kids that we are in this together. โ€œYou're one of a kind, and it's so clear to see: The world needs who you were made to be.โ€

Joanna Gaines is the co-founder of Magnolia, a New York Times bestselling author, editor-in-chief of Magnolia Journal, and creator and co-owner of Magnolia Network.

Born in Kansas and raised in the Lone Star State, Jo graduated from Baylor University with a degree in Communications. It was an internship in New York City that prompted her desire to discover how she could create beauty for people. In a big city unknown to her, Jo always felt most at home whenever she stepped inside the cozy and thoughtfully curated boutique shops, which inspired her to open a shop of her own in Waco, Texas.

Alongside her passion for design and food, nothing inspires Jo more than time spent at home with Chip and their five kids--whether they're messing with recipes in the kitchen or planting something new in the garden.

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