Everyone has challenges. The question is not what our challenges are but how we view them and what we do in response to them. Nancy Schwartz along with her co-author April E. Beard, shares her response to challenge in a book that captures the idea of hope and perseverance and…
Review by Susan Garber Everyone has challenges. The question is not what our challenges are but how we view them and what we do in response to them. Nancy Schwartz along with her co-author April E. Beard of Up Bow, Down Bow shares her response to challenge in a book…
Home is our memories. Home is a place inside us, and a place we share. Home! I loved meeting some of the people that lived in our home before we did and before the wonderful Labess family did. Gabriella Wagner Monaghan, and her husband, Ryan, two girls, and her mom,…
Author, Mom Finds Power of Music Through Cello-Playing Child With Down Syndrome Author Nancy M. Schwartz talks to NBC10’s Lucy Bustamante about her book “Up Bow, Down Bow” and it tells the story of her son Alex, who has Down syndrome, finding joy in playing the cello. Click on the…
By Nancy Schwartz I remember when Sam my middle son, jumped from the couch exclaiming that Cinderella was, as said in his three-year-old voice, “She’s SO shiny.” I remember Sam putting my Dansko red clog on his foot and tripping cause it was too big. I painted his toenails purple…
John Ana Clare Wells, advocate for adults and children with disabilities (Canada) Featured here with a copy of Nancy M. Schwartz newest book Up Bow, Down Bow: A Child with Down Syndrome and His Journey to Master the Cello
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When 4th grader Alex Schwartz first met his cello, his eyes lit up with wonder and a smile appeared on his face as bright as the potential his new cello teacher saw within him. The cello positively impacted all aspects of his development including focus, fine motor and gross motor…
Thank you to Wellington Square Bookshop for having me read from my book, Up Not Down Syndrome!!! If you have not been to the bookshop go and check it out. It’s a beautiful bookshop with incredibly kind people!!! We had lunch at #goodlifeorganickitchen after It’s delicious there and healthy!!! #healthiswealth😊❤️📚#reading…
A brief book trailer for the new book coming soon from Nancy M. Schwartz and April Beard describes Alex’s progress in learning the cello. Alex was born with Trisomy 21 a.k.a. Down Syndrome but his love of music is no less than anybody else. Learn more about this book as…
A brief book trailer for the new book coming soon from Nancy M. Schwartz and April Beard describes Alex’s progress in learning the cello. Alex was born with Trisomy 21 a.k.a. Down Syndrome but his love of music is no less than anybody else. Learn more about this book as…
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1418047/8202067-writing-up-not-down-syndrome-with-author-nancy-schwartz.mp3 I recently enjoyed reading the book, “Up, Not Down Syndrome”, a love letter and a map written by Nancy Schwartz about her journey in parenting her youngest son, Alex. Nancy learned at Alex’s birth that he had Down Syndrome and from that moment on, she’s been learning that love…
Nancy Schwartz:”Up, Not Down Syndrome: Uplifting Lessons Learned from Raising a Son with Trisomy 21″ Presented February 11, 2021 for Phoenixville Public Library Up, Not Down Syndrome is a love letter and a map. Experience how it feels to think your life is over after having an unlovable baby. At…
