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Compassion Heals: From Self-Care to Healthcare By Lees Tomlinson
American Film Institute’s 10-year long 100 Greatest Movies CBS TV specials and multi-million-dollar fundraising campaign, major Hollywood film studio owner, loving husband and near scratch golfer.
And that’s why Lee is driven to make a difference. He has taken to the stage as “Patient Lee” dressed in nothing but a hospital gown, and presented his mixture of humor, compassion, urgency, encouragement and call-to-action at more than 200 venues, including keynote presentations to Johns Hopkins Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering, UCLA Medical Center, Eli Lilly & Co., Providence Health & Services, David Geffen School of Medicine, Bristol Myers Squibb, Siemens Medical Imaging, City of Hope Cancer Center, Adventist Health, and national conferences for the Oncology Nurse Society (ONS), Academy of Oncology Nurses and Patient Navigators (AONN), Association of Integrated Health and Medicine (AIHM) and Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA).
also launched the Compassion Heals Challenge in which he invites his audiences on stages, podcasts and beyond–not just HCPs, but all of us–to commit to purposely providing one additional compassionate act daily, for themselves or others, for 7 days and share them on the www.challenge.leetomlinson.com website.Powered by SgAiSolution
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Dr. Zee Publishing announced an expansion of its Story World Universe with a new collection of titles, a larger storytelling universe in which characters, places, ideas, and adventures grow beyond individual books. The company, operated by Lee Enterprise Ventures, LLC, announced the expansion this week from its base in Schaumburg, Illinois.
The new titles are Day Leaf Caliph Leaves, NOT Gonna Be Toast, Rainbow City, Oumi’s Wish, Cuddles Kisses, Moon Maha Thinks She Needs a Holiday, Alam, Nana & the Tiny Ants, Worst Prank EVER, Cloud 9, and Raaji and the Clouds That Refused to Rain. According to the announcement, the stories represent the evolution of Dr. Zee Publishing from individual books into a larger interconnected storytelling universe in which characters and settings recur across multiple titles.
Three of the new books — Worst Prank EVER, Cloud 9, and Raaji and the Clouds That Refused to Rain — follow a single character, an aspiring young astronaut named Raaji, across separate adventures. In Cloud 9, per the publisher’s description, Raaji encounters what the announcement calls the "Cosmic Complaint Committee," part of a broader cast of personified natural elements — sun, moon, stars, clouds, rainbows — that the company says will continue to interact across future titles.
Other entries take on a single theme apiece. NOT Gonna Be Toast follows a piece of bread resisting its intended fate, described in the announcement as a story about individuality and self-determination. Moon Maha Thinks She Needs a Holiday personifies the moon as tired of nightly duty. Alam, Nana & the Tiny Ants asks young readers to consider the inner lives of insects. Oumi’s Wish centers on a child’s wish to meet a dinosaur.
Dr. Zee, founder of Lee Enterprise Ventures, stated that children’s stories can be meaningful while maintaining their sense of wonder. ‘Some of the most memorable lessons arrive wrapped in silliness, imagination, tenderness, or a question nobody thought to ask,’ Dr. Zee said in the announcement, adding that the Story World Universe was built to let children imagine the world behaving differently than it does.
The publisher’s broader catalog, according to its own marketing materials, is built around funny, friendship-centered stories and classroom-oriented literacy activities aimed at young readers — a positioning consistent with this latest batch of titles, which lean on humor and imaginative scenarios where ordinary things take on extraordinary qualities.
For Studio CarryOnHarry, the detail worth watching is the shared-universe structure itself — a recurring cast across a children’s list is an unusual bet in a market usually built book by book, and whether Raaji and the celestial cast become a lasting fixture will say more about the strategy’s staying power than any single title in this batch.
Studio CarryOnHarry Perspective
There’s a quiet rebellion in Dr. Zee’s observation that "memorable lessons arrive wrapped in silliness." Parents and educators often treat humor and substance as competing priorities in children’s literature—as if a book funny enough to hold a child’s attention must sacrifice depth. This philosophy challenges that false choice, asking readers to consider why we’ve accepted this trade-off at all.
In practice, this matters most when a child resists reading. A story about a piece of bread fighting its purpose (NOT Gonna Be Toast) sounds like a joke, but a child who laughs at that premise is already engaged with questions about identity and choice. The humor doesn’t distract from meaning—it’s the vehicle that makes the meaning accessible to someone still learning to sit still with a book. A tired moon or complaining clouds feel less like lectures and more like companions.
The risk, of course, is assuming that any silly story automatically carries depth. Absurdist humor without genuine stakes can feel hollow, and Dr. Zee’s statement doesn’t guarantee that every title in this collection strikes that balance. Whether a story actually lands both funny and meaningful depends on execution—a detail the announcement itself doesn’t address.
The most useful takeaway may be less about publishing strategy and more about how we measure success in children’s media: not by asking whether a book is funny or meaningful, but by recognizing that sustained attention from a child often depends on the author trusting that they’re the same thing.
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