Most Popular Books by Lisa McCourt

This award-winning book has delighted parents and children everywhere, and it now is available for the first time as a board book.

A collection of children''s books on the subject of mothers.

A "tour" of the human body''s basic systems.

Presents addition and subraction story problems.

Millions-selling author and creator of Joy School Lisa McCourt outlines her unique formula for sustainable happiness, offering a year''s worth of activities, prompts, and techniques that raise your “joy setpoint” so you can cultivate authentic, lasting peace and fulfillment in your daily life. 2024 Finalist, International Book Awards, Self Help: General Category and Spirituality: General Category Unprecedented global events have left many of us feeling depleted, depressed, isolated, and disconnected from many of the things that made us happy. Lisa McCourt, host of the Do Joy! podcast and founder of Joy School, helps people raise their joy setpoints regardless of what is happening around them. Learning about joy is one thing, but it’s the doing that actually shifts your energy. McCourt offers a unique approach to joy and emotional wellness, outlining a year-long adventure in happiness that can be started on any day of the year. Joy is not an elusive fantasy to be chased; it is simply a skill to be learned, practiced, and mastered. McCourt takes readers, month by month, through the life-altering principles of vibration elevation that she has taught for 20 years through her Joy School. Each of the 12 “keys” to experiencing sustainable, authentic joy builds sequentially upon the previous one to create a progressive shifting of the reader''s inner landscape to one of joy and ease. As the inner landscape transforms, transformation of the external reality inevitably follows. McCourt offers weekly “homeplay” for the reader to take into their daily experience which, when followed, upgrade their thought patterns and default reactions into beneficial new habits of thought and behavior. Upon completion of the final key, the reader is invited along the “spiral,” cycling through the keys again from their newly elevated joy setpoint. Our journey toward ever greater realms of joy and personal freedom is never concluded; we can spiral through the steps, year after year, always recalibrating our lives to ever more fulfilling levels.

A grandmother tells her grandchild that an invisible dragon will provide protection from the monsters that she fears at night.

Provides information about a number of space-related topics, including each of the planets in our solar system, the Big Bang theory, stars, comets, meteors, asteroids, and more.

Get clued into what the very coolest girls know about: Your attitude is more than what you look like, how you spend your time, who you hang with, or what you wear. It tells people who you are more than any other thing about you.

A mother reassures her son when he imagines increasingly silly things that might go wrong on his first day of kindergarten.

A mother and her unconditional love help her son find confidence in himself while teaching him it’s okay to be afraid now and then. Stinky Face has a lot of questions, and his patient mama always knows how to reassure her little Stinky Face with the right answers! This time, Stinky Face is struggling with confidence and having some doubts about his abilities. Luckily, Mama knows the magic words: “You can do it, Stinky Face!” Readers will enjoy Stinky Face’s wild adventures while being reassured that it’s okay to feel afraid sometimes. But they have the strength to overcome it—just like Stinky Face does. A perfect year-round Stinky Face story with a gentle nod to graduation and transitions!

Are you living your richest, gutsiest, juiciest life? Do you feel all the exquisite bliss and sweetness you can imagine? If not – if you aren''t experiencing the abundance and personal freedom you crave; if you''re not vitally and deeply connected with your loved ones; if you''re unable to attract and maintain a soul-nurturing, awe-inspiring, passionate primary relationship-it can only mean one thing. You are not expressing the full truth of who you are. Well, it''s time to change that! Juicy Joy is a streamlined path to radical authenticity and the ability to flat-out adore that precious, imperfectly perfect you. Living juicy-joyfully is not a matter of adding anything to yourself. It''s simply a matter of shedding the limitations that separate you from your true core being-the limitations that trap you in the numbness and detachment that have become distressingly "normal" in our culture. Wouldn''t it feel amazing to trust your instincts and fearlessly act on them? Isn''t it time to gain mastery over your experience of life, shed victimhood, and learn to honor the voice within you that always, unfailingly leads you to your greatest joy and highest truth? Juicy Joy is an invitation to a bigger life-a deeper, richer, more rewarding existence. And it will launch you into an enduring love affair with your glorious, genuine self!

Presents basic facts about raptors, small dinosaurs with sharp teeth and hooked claws, and noted for their hunting ability.

Introduces a variety of rain forest animals while counting from one up to ten and then back down to one again.

Toddlers present some of the toughest challenges for parents.

A who''s who of some of the most bizarre mammals includes facts and pictures of tarsiers, vampire bats, orangutans, and prairie dogs.

A series of books offering each child an opportunity to progress at an individual pace -- with stories designed to appeal to a wide range of interests and abilities -- so that every beginning reader experiences success.

Fans of I Love You, Stinky Face, will love spending Christmas with their favorite pal! Fans of I Love You, Stinky Face, will love this Christmas story! Stinky Face loves Christmastime...but he still has plenty of questions. What if a big, wintry wind blows his Christmas tree away? What if one of the reindeer gets his antlers stuck in the branches that hang over the roof? Luckily, his imaginative Mama knows how to reassure him that Christmas will be magical! Now for the first time in 8x8I Love You, Stinky Face has sold over 1 million copies and still counting!

Uses different animals to introduce the concept of size, comparing, for example, the length of a ring-tailed lemur''s tail with that of a Boston terrier.

Celebrate the fun and joy of Christmas with these three Christmas stories: Once there was a Christmas tree, Ten timid ghosts on a Christmas Night, and Merry Christmas, Stinky face.

With the help of her loyal subject, Sir Daddy, a young girl pretends to be a princess as she gets ready for bed.

Our beloved Stinky Face is back asking Mama another timely and endearing question: Mama, are you thankful for me? In this new, original Stinky Face story, Mama tells her little one that she''s thankful for him. Stinky Face, of course, has a question. With greasy, taco-covered hands and face, he asks, Mama, are you thankful for me even right now? Being thankful is a perennial theme for this young age group. Learning to appreciate yourself, the people around you, and people''s unique gifts and individuality is a lesson that is more crucial now than ever, and that is what is at the heart of this touching story. Author Lisa McCourt and illustrator Cyd Moore team up once again to bring us a truly endearing tale of mother and child that''s perfect for the Thanksgiving holiday but can live all year round. This new story is the closest in feel and tone to the original, and with over one and a half million copies sold of I Love You, Stinky Face, we''re confident this one will truly resonate with this audience.

The bad news is that we often feel isolated, alone, and helpless in a cold and uncaring universe. The good news is that those feelings are just feelings and that love is the guiding principle of the universe. This is an inspirational collection of 25 real-life stories of miracles, marvels, and wondrous events that demonstrate that we live in a universe governed by the law of love; that we are not alone#8212help is often available to us from the other side. The contributors to this book share their own stories of everyday miracles. The inspirational stories here include: The story of a deceased woman who sends to her daughter each year on her birthday a single calla lily in bloom The inspirational tale of spirit guides who brought comfort to a mother caring for her severely handicapped baby How a widow and her daughter brought comfort to John Denver''s widow A special story from best-selling author James Van Praagh that points to the reality of after-death communication This collection of amazing stories will provide comfort, solace, and hope to those going through tough times. They prove that our deceased loved ones are always with us, watching us, and loving us even after they have passed on.

A who''s who of the most bizarre creatures found in the ocean includes facts and pictures of moray eels, porcupine puffers, hagfish, mudskippers, and giant squid.

Sprinkled with anecdotes from parents and advice from experts in fields ranging from breastfeeding to cognition, this informative guide offers several answers to each question, encouraging moms and dads to pick and choose what works for them.

As an original hardcover, each of these books sold over 150,000 copies. Due to frequent requests, HCI is now re-releasing the stories in one paperback, complete with a Chicken Soup for the Soul look and size. Each offers a lesson on how to make the world a better place. These inspirational stories are sure to put smiles on the faces of children everywhere. In "The Goodness Gorillas," the friends of the Goodness Gorilla Club have lots of great plans! But what will they do about Todd, the meanest kid in the class?In "The Best Night Out with Dad," Danny has a new friend, and an important decision to make. Will he get to see the circus after all?In "The Never-Forgotten Doll," Ellie want s to give a special gift to Miss Maggie, the best babysitter in the world. But everything is going wrong! How will she show Miss Maggie how much she loves her?

Izzy''s summer is going to be ruined! Her parents won''t let her go to Pine View Camp with all her friends. But things begin to change for Izzy when she starts to give-back time with Grandpa Mike and meets the braids girl.

The warm and special relationship between a mother and her children is the focus of this beautiful treasury with a padded, satin-finished cover. The three books included in this treasury are Mother, May I?, The Most Thankful Thing, and Clifford''s Happy Mother''s Day.

Presents the complete text to Jonathan Swift''s classic novel "Gulliver''s Travels" along with "A Modest Proposal," a political satire, and contains a chronology of Swift''s life and works, timeline of significant events, explanatory and textual notes, and critical essays.

A girl looks at old photographs with her mother, trying to figure out what her mother feels most grateful for in her life. By the creators of I Love You, Stinky Face.

Stinky Face always has a lot of questions, and his patient mama always has the right answers This time, Stinky Face is having trouble going to sleep in his own bed, and asks if he can sleep with her. After all, the water from the drippy faucet could sweep him away at any moment But just like in previous stories, Mama knows how to reassure her Stinky Face to let him know that she''s right there, even when he''s sleeping.

Spend a day with Mama bear and her baby as they celebrate the joys of love. From playtime to eating to bedtime, Yummiest Love is a book to be shared with the special someone in your life. Lisa McCourt and Laura Bryant combine their talents to create a beautiful andreassuring tale of the love and affection between a parent and child.

A mother reassures her young son as he imagines all the things that might go wrong while trick-or-treating.

In this brand-new adventure, Stinky Face is celebrating the 100th Day of School. Which 100 things will he bring to the party? Stinky Face has lots of imaginative ideas, and as always, a lot of questions....

The last thing Carrie wants to do is go to Della Splatnuk''s birthday party. Everyone knows Della is weird, and Carrie''s best friends have vowed not to go. But once Carrie is there, she begins to wonder whether Della is really all that bad, and whether all the kids who did not show up have ever given Della a chance. When Carrie looks within her own little soul to find an independence and conviction she didn''t know she had, readers will learn that how people look doesn''t always tell you what they are like inside. Just as Carrie learns amazing new things about herself, about Della and about friendship, children reading or listening to this story will learn to trust their own feelings when it comes to who is their friend, not the opinions of their peers. Lisa McCourt and Pat Porter previously combined their talents on The Goodness Gorillas (more than 110,000 copies sold).

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.