New Releases by Lisa McCourt

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

A bear tells its child some of the many reasons for the love that exists between them.

A collection of 5 stories illustrating the love between mothers and their children.

The Chicken Soup for Little Souls series (more than 400,000 copies sold) brought the magic of Chicken Soup to young readers with heartwarming stories of love, friendship, and kindness that parents could read to their young children. Now these classic books have been resized and rewritten into intermediate-level readers that kids 6 and up can read themselves. While the text has been shortened and simplified, it retains the enduring Chicken Soup message of sincere and heartfelt virtue. The new reader series starts with two books: In The Best Night Out With Dad, Danny can''t wait to go to the circus with his dad. It''s going to be the best night ever! But the night has a surprise ending when Danny meets Victor in the ticket line. In The Greatest Gift of All, Izzy finds out that her parents won''t let her go to Pine View Camp. Her summer is ruined! But things begin to change for Izzy when she starts to do Give-back Time with Grandpa Mike and meets the Braids Girl. With a lower price point, friendly format and the power of the Chicken Soup brand, these books will inspire children as they teach the joy of reading. Key Features The previous books were for parents to read to children; the new books have been shortened by approximately 25% and redesigned to make them appropriate for intermediate readers (ages 6 and up). The books contain 4-color illustrations throughout, including many full-page bleeds. The recognizable brand, along with the lower price point and smaller trim size, make this a perfect impulse purchase for busy parents.

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

A girl looks at old photographs with her mother, trying to figure out what her mother feels most grateful for in her life.

Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

Esta valiosa gui a te ofrece 101 ideas y consejos para construir una relacio n de amor y confianza necesaria para que tu hijo crezca feliz y seguro de si mismo. Te ayudara a ver los pequen os (o no tan pequen os) problemas cotidianos-las dificultades a la hora de dormir, el llanto, el momento de dejar de usar pan ales, las rabietas-- desde la perspectiva de tu hijo. Con e l aprendera s a trabajar con, y no contra, los impulsos naturales del nin o, consiguiendo que estos primeros an os conviertan el vi nculo u nico y natural entre tu hijo y tu en una relacio n llena de amor. A gil y de lectura fa cil, leerlo puede ser el mejor regalo que le hagas a tu hijo nunca.

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

In this beautiful tale of the love and affection of a parent, an imaginative son turns himself into a meat-eating dinosaur, a swamp creature and much, much more before being satisfied with the fact that no matter how stinky he is, he is loved.

Presents addition and subraction story problems.

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

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.

Toddlers present some of the toughest challenges for parents.

Les toutes premières années de la vie d''un bébé constituent une brève période pendant laquelle il façonne, une fois pour toutes, ses attitudes et ses traits de personnalité. Pour apprendre à être heureux, un enfant doit être entouré de gens heureux. Ce livre suggère aux parents plusieurs façons de faite des deux premières années de leur bébé une période joyeuse et stimulante. Ce petit guide donne la parole à de nouveaux parents et à d''éminents spécialistes de la médecine et de l''éducation. La joie de vivre que le tout-petit éprouvera dès sa naissance influencera ses chances de bonheur tout au long de son existence.

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