Shemmy's Wild Ride
Published on 15. October 2024
Book
Hardback
32 pages
978-1-61254-710-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Dallas
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Kindergarten to Third Grade, Interest Age: From 4 to 7 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
28 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 283 mm
Width: 261 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61254-710-7 (9781612547107)
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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.