As featured in the November/December 2009 issue of VIVmag, Cami Walker was mired in self-pity until her African friend Mbali Creazzo told her to take a 29-giving challenge. Read Creazzo’s powerful reasoning in an excerpt from Walker’s book, 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life (Da Capo, 2009), in the November/December issue, available for download Nov. 1.

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As featured in the November/December 2009 issue of VIVmag, illustrator Wendy Wahman has recently published her first children’s picture book, Don’t Lick the Dog: Making Friends With Dogs (Henry Holt, 2009). Check out Wahman’s illustrations of the germy creatures in “Flu: Who Knew?!” in the November/December issue, available Nov. 1.

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