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Brave on the Big Slide
Paperback
AnimalsGeneral Juvenile Fiction
Publisher Price: $11.99
Publisher: Ls Creative Publishing
Published: May 22 2026
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.10 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
On a bright morning at Sunny Paws School, the playground fills with laughter and excitement. The tall, shiny slide gleams in the golden sun as friends race toward it one by one, climbing eagerly, cheering loudly, and soaring down with arms stretched wide and faces full of joy.
Every friend, that is, except Hedgehog.
While the others play, Hedgehog sits alone in the sandbox, small shovel in hand, digging a mound that isn't really anything at all. Hedgehog stares down and pretends carefully and deliberately to be very busy with something very important. Because if Hedgehog looks busy enough, maybe nobody will notice. And if nobody notices, maybe nobody will ask the one question Hedgehog isn't ready to answer.
But beneath the quiet pretending, something uncomfortable stirs. Hedgehog's chest tightens. The slide, from all the way over here, looks impossibly tall.
What if I fall? What if I go too fast? What if everyone laughs?
The worries come slowly at first, then all at once, swirling and stacking higher than any sandbox mound ever could. And the sandbox, small, quiet, flat, and completely safe, begins to feel like the only sensible place in the world to stay. Nothing to climb. Nothing to fall from. Nothing to fear.
So Hedgehog stays. And digs. And pretends.
Then something unexpected happens. Kind, gentle Puppy slows down, stops mid-play, and walks across the grass. Puppy crouches down to Hedgehog's level, tilts a head softly to one side, and asks the three most important words spoken all morning.
Are you okay?
Just like that, everything begins to shift.
With Puppy's kindness as the spark, the whole Sunny Paws Club gathers close, Bunny, Fox, and all the rest forming a warm circle that feels nothing like pressure and everything like belonging. Nobody laughs. Nobody pushes. Instead, they listen, they stay, and together they build a bravery plan: three small, gentle steps designed to make courage feel possible one piece at a time.
Brave on the Big Slide is a warm, tender, and reassuring picture book for every child who has ever stood at the edge of something scary and wondered if they were brave enough to try. A story about the fears that keep us on the sidelines, the friends who stop to notice, and the truth that bravery has never been about being fearless it has always been about choosing to try.
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