New Releases by Valerie Coulman

Imaginative picture book helps children recognize their inner feelings and discover ways to regulate big emotions. Inner feelings aren’t always visible on the outside. Dragons on the Inside (And Other Big Feelings) validates young children’s emotions and helps them recognize, describe, and cope when they are anxious or overwhelmed on the inside. Dragons stomp and breathe fire, roller coasters swoop and swirl, and bats stare from a dark, damp cave. These imaginative descriptions offer children multiple ways for describing their emotion and help them build an inner feelings vocabulary, which boosts emotional intelligence. For children who struggle to recognize their emotions, including some kids with ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, or other processing disorders, it can be especially useful to see another child work through their inner battles and how people “on the outside” can help ease stressful situations. Throughout the book, readers see the main character’s initial inner reaction to a stressful situation and how it is diffused or diminished through a small act of connection by someone “on the outside.” A section for adults provides additional activities to use with children to reinforce the book’s message.

When Ralph''s dad agrees to buy him a bike "when pigs fly," this determined young cow goes to work to get his pig friends off the ground! This 20th anniversary hardcover edition continues to encourage readers to never give up.

A travel-sized coloring book based on the animal alphabet sketches of Valerie Coulman.

Ralph, una obstinada vaca, y su amigo Morris están tratando de sobreponerse al calor insoportable de un día de verano. ¿Que mejor manera que ir a nadar? Pero las vacas no nadan, ¿no es cierto? Ralph encara este nuevo desafío con perseverancia y optimismo.

(ages 4 - 6) Rafi, la vache intrépide, veut apprendre à nager. Il se lance dans cette entreprise avec le même optimisme inébranlable qui l''avait fait décoller dans Rafi et les cochons volants(Les Éditions Homard, 2003). Rafi la vache et son ami Maurice tentent d''échapper un peu à la chaleur écrasante d''une journée d''été... et quel meilleur moyen y a-t-il pour se rafraîchir que d''aller nager ? Mais, attendez une minute, les vaches ne peuvent pas nager ! Ou alors, ils ne nagent pas comme les canards, ni comme les tortues, et encore moins comme les grenouilles! Le lecteur rira beaucoup avec Rafi et se souviendra de l''optimisme, de l''inventivité et de l''attitude positive de celle-ci.

Ralph wants to beat the summer heat . . .but cows don''t swim. Or do they? Kids will laugh and learn about resourcefulness and positive thinking from this Independent Publisher Best Children''s Book finalist, which was also shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association Blue Spruce Award. Full color. (Available this October)

Cow friends Morris and Ralph keep trying different ways to learn how to swim.

An irresistible and determined ballerina shows readers how to reach for their dreams.

Une fillette, qui a adoré la séance de ballet à laquelle elle a assisté avec sa maman, est déterminée à devenir ballerine. Ses parents l''inscrivent à des cours de danse. Avec mademoiselle Chérie, son professeur, elle prépare un spectacle dans lequel les petites filles feront les chevaux d''un manège. Des pastels réalistes illustrent ce rêve de petite fille avec une certaine candeur. [SDM].

The first award-winning tale of Ralph the can-do cow.

Determined to learn how to swim, Ralph the cow turns to his water-friendlyriends, such as the ducks and turtles, to give him pointers on how to stayfloat.

When a young cow asks for a bicycle, he''s told that it will happen when pigs fly so he learns to fly a helicopter and takes his pig friends up for a ride.