Sheila Rae, the Brave

Sheila Rae, the Brave is the eleventh Living Book, originally written by Kevin Henkes in 1987 and released on February 27, 1996. It was the last title to use the old 512 x 384 resolution; all titles from here on out used 640 x 480. The story is about how Sheila Rae claims not to be afraid of anything, unlike her sister Louise, who is frightened of anything her sister does. This is (once again) one of the rarest titles due to being out of print for a long time, and is very hard to come across.

Plot[]

A mouse named Sheila Rae is a brave girl. Sheila Rae has a younger sister named Louise. She is daring and willing to do anything. Sheila Rae isn't afraid of the dark, thunderstorms, spiders or a mean dog at the end of her block.

At dinner, Sheila Rae, Louise and their parents are eating fruit cocktail. Sheila Rae pretends that the cherries in her fruit cocktail are dead bear eyes and ate 5 of them.

At school, Sheila Rae giggles when the principal walks by and takes care of Wendell when he steals her jump rope by tying him up.

One day, she gets overly confident and decides to go home a different way than usual. Louise rejects this idea, but Sheila Rae chooses to go anyway, while Louise secretly follows her.

After Sheila Rae travels for a while, she gets entirely lost and doesn't recognize anything around her. She gets terrified of noises in the forest and begins to feel very upset and starts to cry for help.

After finally calling for her parents and Louise, Louise finally decides to show up and comfort her. Louise leads Sheila Rae back home, doing things Sheila Rae did on her way out.

After reaching home, Sheila Rae declares Louise to be brave and fearless. At the end, Sheila Rae and Louise enter the house with their eyes closed and walking backwards.

Characters[]

Sheila Rae, the titular protagonist
Louise, the deuteragonist
Capone (Wendell's dog)
Mother
Father
Wendell
The stray dog (a recurring character)
The blue birds (side background characters)
Butterfly (running gag)

Voice cast[]

Gina Leishman as Narrator
Mamie Rheingold as Sheila Rae
Laura Deering and Anna Deering (singing voice) as Louise
Alex Wang as Wendell (singing voice)

Songs[]

Music[]

Pat Farrell (composition)
Barney Jones

Mini-games[]

The map game

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

This is one of the only Living Books to contain sing-alongs, along with Dr. Seuss' ABC. In this case, it includes songs from the story.
- While Dr. Seuss' ABC includes only one language for the alphabet song, which is English, Sheila Rae, the Brave includes multiple languages for the songs from the story. The languages include English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Portuguese. The former is interactive, while the latter is unclickable and looks similar to the main menu and the page selection menu.
This is the first Living Book to include a mini-game. In this case, it was a map game.
The sampler here is shortened down, as it omits Arthur's Teacher Trouble, The New Kid on the Block and Ruff's Bone. This is mostly because the map game is huge though.
Not counting Just Grandma and Me V2, this is the final multilingual Living Book in North America.
In a prototype version featured in the second sampler, the opening portion has a black background instead of white and you don't click on the pictures to proceed; the story plays automatically. It would be like this in Read to Me mode in the finished game and was later corrected in the later samplers.
In the sing-along section, some of the songs from the story have extended versions of themselves, while the other songs only include 1 version. The songs that have extended versions of themselves include My Life's a Dog, I'm All Tied Up and I Am Brave. The songs that only include 1 version include Dead Bear Eyes, I'm Terrified, Daddy-O, Cool Cat!, All Alone and Happily Ever After Time.
- The theme song is the only song not included in the sing-along section.