o “Sheila Rae, the Brave” by Kevin Henkes, Picture Puffins. Picture Book. Ages 4-7.
Sheila Rae is bold and fearless and she knows it. She is not afraid of the dark, lightning, spiders, the school principal and cracks in the pavement. “Yea! Yea! Sheila Rae!”yell her friends when she rides her bicycle no-handed. “You’re too brave for me,” her little sister, Louise says of her. But one day, Sheila Ray gets lost when trying a new route home. And it is her little sister, unassuming and timid, who leads Sheila Ray home. Along the journey, Louise finds her ‘voice’ and Sheila Rae finds respect for her little sister.
I read this to my little one. Like Louise in the story, Grace is in awe of the many things her sister can do – laughing through thunderstorms, eyeballing spiders, speeding down hillcocks . The first time I read it, Grace let out a little laugh as if she recognized herself in the story.
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