Everyday Brave

When a little girl feels like the world is a scary place, she discovers the power of her inner lion to help face down her fears.

One little girl finds it easy to speak up, make new friends, and shoo away the monsters under her bed when she has a great big lion by her side. Next to her lion, nothing is scary--not even broccoli. But when a classmate tells her the lion is only in her imagination, that bravery vanishes. Suddenly, the world is scary again. Until the little girl tries a roar of her own and discovers that maybe the courage she needed was inside her all along.

At once fierce and tender, Colter Jackson's Everyday Brave is a book about finding your footing, facing your fears, and discovering the lion-like roar within.

Colter Jackson is the author-illustrator of the picture books The Rhino Suit and Elephants Make Fine Friends. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Epoch, Tin House and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.