For Tiffany Adams, second grade at Meadowbrook Elementary is already full of wonders — a teacher with wild earrings and words like "Fiddlesticks!" and "Dragonfrost!," a shy boy with a blond half-smile, and a notebook packed with half-written dreams. But when Mrs. C rolls in a mysterious cart draped in a faded tapestry and reveals an enormous scaly green book — The Secret Stories of Meadowbrook Elementary — Tiffany's world shifts in ways she never imagined.
What follows is a journey through enchanted libraries, school basements, and gym floors where trolls, dragons, and elves are waiting — not to frighten, but to teach. A troll janitor named Mr. Grimble who knows the only way out is to name your fear. A bored emerald dragon who whispers that writing is simply breathing fire into what you believe. And a classroom where Spanish words become secret codes, pizza day becomes an act of courage, and a rainbow parachute can open the doors of a child's whole heart.
Mrs. C's Magic Classroom is a love letter to the teachers who see us, the friends who stay, and the words — in every language — that light our way home.
"La magia está en ti. The magic is in you."
For readers ages 5–9 5 x 8 15 pages Full color
Tiffany Solter, PhD is a mental health professional, educator, advocate, and lifelong seeker of magic whose writing explores the boundaries between life, death, justice, and the profound connections that define us. Born into a family of mountain people spanning Wyoming and Colorado, she grew up shaped, largely, by two grandmothers who taught her, one through train journeys across the West, the other chasing shooting stars across the plains, that anything is possible.
A survivor of a near-death experience in 1996, Solter spent decades integrating what she encountered in that "warm place where light is everything" into a life of healing work, academic achievement, and fierce advocacy. She holds a doctorate with a dissertation on grace and recovery, and has worked alongside peer counselors, nurses, and mental health teams she considers among the most transformative teachers of her life.
Her advocacy voice is unflinching and deeply personal. In "Be a Man": The Violence Society Ignores, Solter turns her clinical expertise and lived experience toward a crisis our culture has long refused to see: domestic violence against men. Drawing on research, survivor accounts, and her own family history, she challenges the archetypal and institutional blind spots that leave male victims invisible, unbelieved, and without adequate resources. The book is equal parts gripping fiction, Jungian psychological analysis, and practical call to action. It is complete with resource guides for survivors, supporters, military families, and children. It is the work of someone who has sat in clinical rooms with these men, loved them as family, and refused to stay silent.
She lives in what she calls Camelot, a home she and her husband Jeff manifested in childhood whispers, surrounded by family, familiars, motorcycles, and what she simply calls the magic.
“Between Worlds” is her memoir. "Be a Man" is her battle cry.
Create Magic & Live Authentically