Tools for when parenting feels really hard.

Meet Little Dude

A real dog with some very big lessons to share.

Little Dude isn't just a character in a book. He's a real therapy dog, and the reason these books exist.

As an early childhood educator, I knew how often we expect children to share, listen, make friends, manage big feelings and understand other people's boundaries, without always showing them how.

Then Little Dude and I became a certified therapy dog team and began volunteering in schools, classrooms and hospitals. I saw how naturally children connected with him, and how a little dog could make big ideas like kindness, respect and empathy suddenly feel concrete and easy to understand.

Those little lessons with Little Dude became stories. And those stories became Big World of Little Dude.

We teach ABCs and 123s. We can teach kindness too.

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