Offering simple tools, techniques, and ideas, and combining personal experience with extensive research and feedback from parents and kids, this book looks at shyness in a new way, helping children overcome the aspects of shyness that are holding them back.

A shy robot falls in love and works up the courage to speak to its crush.

"A shy girl who feels most at home in the school library gains the courage to extend herself to others when she encounters a group of unique, diverse, inspiring women at the diner where her mother works"--

In three stories, Buster the dog overcomes his shyness to make a friend, discovers his special talent, and helps Phoebe find the garbage bandits.

Too shy to approach the girl he likes, Jackson hides little gifts for her to discover before Valentine's Day.

Rabbit, Bear, Squirrel, and Other Squirrel make big plans for a show, but they have forgotten one very important thing and only shy Bear can help.

Gustavo is good at doing all sorts of ghostly things: walking through walls, making objects fly, and glowing in the dark. And he loves almost nothing more than playing beautiful music on his violin. But Gustavo is shy, and some things are harder for him to do, like getting in a line to buy eye scream or making friends with other monsters. Whenever he tries getting close to them, he realizes they just can't see him. Now that the Day of the Dead is...

Panda and Pandora live next to each other but never speak or play together because they are much too shy.

Buster the dog overcomes his shyness to make a friend, discovers his special talent, and helps Phoebe find the garbage bandits.

Join best friends Pins and Nettie, two adventurous yet shy hedgehogs who discover that it's okay to be shy they just need to approach things in their own way!