Many kids don't have the physical strength to "fight back" or the language necessary to defend themselves verbally. What they do have, however, is the tremendous ability to embrace their personal and often unique talent(s)-- which gives them the inner courage to endure and protect themselves from the criticisms and cruelties of the "misguided" and unimaginative. Conformity, jealousy, refusing to "dare to be different," and bullying are for the weak of heart AND soul. Self-confidence stems from inner-strength, courage, bravado. Love-of-self fosters peace-towards-all. A young student of mine, whom I engaged after her reading of this haunting tale, recognized herself immediately in Benjamin -- an outcast with incredible, creative talent. Her social skills are a deficit and her pragmatic language is poor though she takes great pride in her strengths and is one of the happiest and well-adjusted children I know. It bothers me to read that the publishers felt a need to post a "disclaimer" to potential purchasers a sweet and insightful tale and engaging App. Personally, I adore it!--Speech-Language Pathologist and avid, Anti-Bully activist, Washington, D.C.

I love the story! "bullying is for people with no imagination!" brought to life on BOTH my iPhone and iPad, after a day of the real world I can sit down and blow some dandelions! Wonderful for kids of all ages! Read by yourself or enact storytelling mode. Worth every penny! Also, the chaps who created this ap/story truly have the intentions of modern day kids at heart, with inspiration close to home. Thanks for the ap.. The well told story .. Can't wait for the next project! 5stars!!!

Dandelion is nothing if not an artistic, uniquely stylized story, however, after reading it to my second graders they (and I) were left wondering "What's the message here?". Clearly it's not a story about practically addressing bullying because the main character uses his imagination to deal with the bullies in the end. I tried to explain his imagination was a way to ignore them, but I could tell they weren't quite satisfied with that explanation. There seem to be a trend right now of telling stories masquerading as children's books but cater to the educated parents a bit more. This story is one of them. Unfortunately, the message is unclear whether you're an adult or a child. In the end, they just liked that I could blow that dandelion.

So in reading this it seems the boy Benjamin is a strange boy who gets beat up often. The Dandelions teach him to go to his happy place while being beat up. Not quite sure that is the message I want to send to my strange child if they are getting beat up. Maybe tell an adult, or work through their feeling with imagination, hey I'll even take fight back but not go to your happy place while being beat. I gave it two stars because the artwork and everything besides the actual story is good. The story is horrible, I will never advocate a child just using their imagination to make bullying "go away".