"Follows a girl learning to express herself and connect with others. How do you use your voice, once you've finally found it? Growing in self-confidence, she befriends a stranger who becomes her closest companion. Despite their differences, they speak and sing and laugh, their friendship weathering darkness and light, stormy seas and calm waters"-- "The companion to David Ouiment's acclaimed debut, I Go Quiet, [this book] is a poetic and arresting...

"Hector is a shy hedgehog and aims to help kids who may not want to venture out and try new activities for fear of making mistakes. It also highlights that friendships could be affected if a child keeps saying no to invitations from friends"--

Hector's charming text and adorable illustrations are sure to have readers rooting for the Gentleman Bug as he endures a series of mishaps and a failed makeover in his quest to win his fair librarian Lady Bug's heart. Full color. Teased because he likes to spend all of his time reading, the Gentleman Bug decides to change in order to catch the eye of the new Lady Bug in the garden, but she is not impressed until he goes back to being himself.

Jessie returns to the magical world where her grandmother was born. There she deals with some griffins, dances with fairies, and borrows something to help her dance in her school concert.

Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.

When Mrs. Bear and little Sam deliver the cakes they have made for their friends in the neighborhood, Sam carries the cakes all by himself, through the snow and up to the front doors.

Linus hopes to win the family art show but his eraser, Ernie, obliterates his work, his self-confidence, and his joy until a word from Smudge inspires Linus to try again.

After escaping from her cage to see the world, a little red bird finds it difficult to decide whether to stay free or to go home and never fly again.

"A lesson about self-confidence."--P. [4] of cover.