Stories have tremendous power to connect us all to our humanity. To share them takes bravery, and there are few braver than Matthew Shelby who shares the story of how he became bald (“there were no other kids who were bald or even kind of bald”) and discovered he had alopecia areata.
In this series of pictures, Matthew and his real-life first grade teacher and author Tracy Peterson unbox the first copies of Beanies after they arrived from the printer!