Amy feels all alone as she decides to confront the scout chief, Akela. How can she do it? Why do adults always think they’re right? Thomas Edison, Lord Baden-Powell, and Merlin the wizard all come to Amy’s aid, and maybe you can too. Because of his experience, his education, his knowledge, the adult often thinks he has the moral obligation to correct the child thus creating doubt, fear, abandon, or anger in the child. Can one trust the judgment of a child? Is the young one sufficiently grown-up to know what is good for him? If there is still a doubt in tour mind, take this beautiful risk to discover the extraordinary capacity of auto-evaluation that each child has.

Born in Montreal, Francine Bélair has a degree in Psychology from McGill University. With a passion for human behaviour, she then chose to perfect her knowledge and competence in this domain in Los Angeles where she became a member of the teaching staff of an organization of international reputation. Today, she’s a consultant and teacher at the University of Moncton, the chairman of a SME, and a lecturer in conferences. Francine travels a lot and she writes “to make herself some roots”. Her first publication was published at La Chenelière-McGraw/Hill in 1996.

Kind of book: lesson about challenge, trust, understanding and courage. Under the title Les Dents d’Akéla, this book was chosen as one of the two-hundred best children’s book of the year in Quebec. Quickly going into reprinting, this passionate novel applies a theory of positive resolution of conflicts and promotes the international organization of Scouting. In an environment where the awakening of love, the imaginary, the discoveries and the adventure intermingle, Amy took up the challenge of confronting an adult, giving a beautiful lesson of courage, responsibility and a new vision of discipline.