A small timid dog on the path leading up to the dog park gate

Book One · Everything in Life, I Learned at the Dog Park

Daisy Finds Her Courage

Some gates look taller than they are. A story about the first big step — and the friend waiting on the other side.

Kickstarter opens January

The story

Daisy is a timid rescue dog facing her very first visit to the dog park. With help from Bruce — the park's steady, ring-toy-carrying mentor — she finds the courage to step through the gate, and discovers she is braver than she knew.

Why this book

Big feelings, small paws

Daisy Finds Her Courage is a social-emotional-learning story about courage and big feelings, wrapped in a dog-park world children and dog-loving families recognize instantly. It gives grown-ups a gentle way to talk about first days, nerves, and kindness — without a single lecture.

A peek inside

Early art from the book

Work in progress from our illustrator — final spreads land before the Kickstarter.

Daisy stepping through the open dog park gate for the first time — The first step through the gate

Bruce the boxer walking beside Daisy along the golden path at sunset — Bruce walks with her

Bruce the boxer carrying his ring toy down the path — Bruce and the ring

Meet the leads

Daisy

A soft-hearted rescue who would rather watch from the parking lot. She notices everything, which is exactly why the gate feels so big.

Bruce

The park's wise, goofy, ring-obsessed Boxer. He appears in every book in the series, reminding each dog — and each child — that they are not alone.

Book One of eight. See the whole series →

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Early backers get first look at the finished art, the print edition, and the rest of the series.