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Shemmy's Wild Ride

$18.99

In Shemmy's Wild Ride, an ECSELent Adventures story, Shemmy explores what it means to be a big kid.

She feels like a big kid, but the training wheels on her bike prevent her from keeping up with her older friends at the park, and she's the only one who has her lovey, Mimi Curie, with her in her bike basket. Is Shemmy ready to shed these familiar comfort objects and try new things on her own? Learn, grow, and develop alongside Shemmy as she navigates the challenges of growing up, letting go, and gaining self-assurance.

Shemmy invites children to join her as she discovers that becoming a big kid involves sadness along with anxiety and uncertainty in the loss of letting go of the familiar and excitement about experiencing the many new adventures ahead. After all, embracing the unknown requires perseverance and the confidence to engage and stick with new experiences that help build a positive sense of self-at any age.

In Shemmy's Wild Ride, an ECSELent Adventures story, Shemmy explores what it means to be a big kid.

She feels like a big kid, but the training wheels on her bike prevent her from keeping up with her older friends at the park, and she's the only one who has her lovey, Mimi Curie, with her in her bike basket. Is Shemmy ready to shed these familiar comfort objects and try new things on her own? Learn, grow, and develop alongside Shemmy as she navigates the challenges of growing up, letting go, and gaining self-assurance.

Shemmy invites children to join her as she discovers that becoming a big kid involves sadness along with anxiety and uncertainty in the loss of letting go of the familiar and excitement about experiencing the many new adventures ahead. After all, embracing the unknown requires perseverance and the confidence to engage and stick with new experiences that help build a positive sense of self-at any age.

SPECS

  • Imprint: Brown Books Kids

  • BISAC: Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings

  • Format: Hardcover

  • Page Count: 32

  • Publication Date: October 15, 2024

  • ISBN-13: 9781612547107

  • Dimensions: 10" x 11"

  • US List Price: $18.99

  • Carton QTY: 24

AUTHOR BIO

Dr. Donna Housman has spent her professional career in the world of early childhood development and education. As a clinical psychologist, she began her career working with children and adolescents on issues such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and suicide. Believing that it is far easier to prevent than repair, Dr. Housman founded Housman Institute, along with its lab school and early childhood development center, based on emotional foundations of learning and cognition and informed by research in neuroscience, child development and early education. Seizing the opportunity to inform the architecture of the brain in the earliest years, her Emotional, Cognitive, and Social Early Learning approach, begin to ECSEL, promotes healthy brain development and a positive sense of self by fostering the building blocks of emotional intelligence starting from birth. Dr. Housman has trained thousands of early childhood educators, children, and families in her ECSEL approach while being a consistent source of vital counsel and guidance for families and educators on young children's social and emotional development.

ILLUSTRATOR BIO

Renée Andriani graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and worked as an artist and writer for Hallmark for many years before starting her own graphic recording business and illustrating full time. Renée has created art for more than 25 children's books for clients including Little,Brown, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Holiday House, and Penguin RandomHouse. She was especially drawn to working on the ECSELent Adventures series because of all the fun and expressiveness in the stories and characters! She grew up in Connecticut and now lives near Kansas City, Missouri.

PRAISE

“Shemmy’s Wild Ride is completely relatable and will prove to be read repeatedly, just as my child does with all of Dr. Housman’s books in this impactful series. Caregivers can turn to this book as a powerful tool to help their children develop confidence and a healthy sense of agency.” —Lauren Broadhurst Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Ellis Early Learning