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Junga the Dancing Yeti ®

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About Junga the Dancing Yeti ®

The three Junga the Dancing Yeti® stories take children on fun, imaginative adventures while introducing meaningful lessons they can carry into their everyday lives. Through Junga’s experiences with Grandma Yeti and friends such as Heidi and Groth, children explore themes including acceptance, courage, friendship, empathy, bullying prevention, forgiveness, teamwork, fair play, and making responsible choices. Each new adventure gives Junga and his friends challenges to overcome while reinforcing the importance of being a leader and doing what’s right.

More than entertaining stories, the Junga books are an integral part of the Confident Life Program™, where the characters and situations help bring social-emotional learning to life for young children. The stories provide educators and families with relatable opportunities to begin conversations about feelings, relationships, conflict, differences, and the choices children face in the real world. By connecting important lessons with memorable characters and engaging situations, children can explore these topics in a way that feels approachable rather than instructional.

Most importantly, Junga makes learning fun. The colorful illustrations, humor, adventure, lovable characters, and accompanying animated films are designed to keep children engaged while reinforcing positive social-emotional skills. Children can enjoy Junga simply as a storybook character while, along the way, discovering what it means to become more confident, caring, resilient, and responsible young people.

OUR MISSION

Leadership

Demonstrating the importance of leadership and confidence in young children

Educate

Teaching the youth how to stand up for what they believe in.

Awareness

Spreading awareness of anti-bullying and doing the right thing.

OUR AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

About the Author

Stephen Tako is a motivational speaker and anti-bullying advocate. As the host of his video talk show “Tako Talk”, Stephen has interviewed guests who shared inspirational stories to inspire adults and children who have been negatively impacted by bullying and to increase their self-esteem.
Author of the book “Motivated To Act”, Stephen teaches individuals to live lives more rewarding and to heal from past negative experiences. “Motivated to Act” helps people find the ‘Motivation’ to ‘Act’ upon their true dreams and passions in life.

OUR NON-PROFIT

With the help of our fans across the world, we have been able to launch two children’s books and have spread awareness of leadership and bullying to thousands of kids. Help us reach even more youths now.

Empowering Education Through Giving

At Confident Life Enterprises, we are dedicated to shaping brighter futures. Our collection of books, merchandise, curriculum, and school supplies not only aims to support quality education but also contributes to a larger purpose.

We take pride in donating 10% of all sales to MTA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to delivering quality education to children in need. With every purchase, you directly contribute to funding programs, resources, and opportunities that create a meaningful impact in the lives of young learners. 

Together, we can inspire minds, foster growth, and create lasting change—one book, one lesson, one child at a time.

Learn more about our mission and nonprofit initiatives at Motivated To Act

WHAT OUR READERS ARE SAYING

This book helps communicate a very powerful point to children in a subtle way by helping gain the realization that our differences make us unique and special and these differences are to be understood, embraced, and loved. It also helps children realize the damages, effects and harms of seemingly appropriate yet hurtful and destructive behavior and treatment of others and how to prevent it from occurring in the first places. Kudos and cheers to Mr. Tako for a point communicated so brilliantly! Highly recommended!
Imran Rahman
Stephen has been a man on an impressive mission for some time now. He has created and developed the character of Junga into a unique mouthpiece for a very real and disturbing problem affecting children, our most vulnerable population—Junga has taken on bullying. By using Junga in such a way, Stephen uses a creature, often considered a “monster” in popular folklore, and therefore, already seen as different, as his protagonist. Through heartwarmingly enticing artwork, Stephen’s story introduces us to young Junga. Junga immediately starts off not fitting in with his own family due of his sensitivity to cold, and in dealing with this sensitivity, he inadvertently discovers dance in order to warm himself up. It is this skill of dance that would eventually endear Junga to creatures who were initially hostile to him because of who he was. These persecutors come to accept Junga for his differences—differences that had been ingrained within them due to a distrust of anything not understood. Thus, in such a delightful, easily understood and beautifully illustrated story, a lesson of acceptance is pleasantly related. Stephen’s book belongs on the shelf of any grade school classroom, and hopefully it will be a class staple one day. I am excited to see where Stephen and Junga go next! I love Junga!!
Rex Alan
Absolutely love the message this story brings to light! Junga the Dancing Yeti ® is full of warmth and love, and much needed lessons on anti-bullying with inclusion of those different from ourselves. The author has really written from the heart and it's impossible to not fall in love with the characters in his story! My children enjoyed this, as have many that I've shared this with.
Krysta Wallrauch

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