CANINE COURAGE CHAMPS speaks to the enormous challenges of being a kid in an uncertain world. Ten chapters reveal ways to nurture one of the most critical life skills of all: RESILIENCE. Stanley & Walker, along with their crew of family, friends, and classmate pups, learn ways to cultivate courage and cope with illness, family crisis, financial instability, lifestyle disruption, academic struggles, personal insecurity, social issues, bereavement, unanticipated change and overcoming failure. Young readers learn that they, too, can be CANINE COURAGE CHAMPS.

EMILY ISRAEL HOFFMAN founded a breast cancer charity in memory of her mother, The Renée Israel Foundation in 2006. In 2011, Emily published her first book, A Blending of Bittersweet Memories, a cookbook dedicated to those who have lost a loved one. In 2013, Emily published her second book, a colorful children's book to encourage healthy eating, Why Are You So Strong, Stanley? The series, Stanley and Walker, began as a collaboration between Emily, and her children, Palmer and Elle, modeled after their pups.