This book is about different feelings and labeling those feelings.  “Everyone has moods that change each day and that’s okay.”

This helps your child learn the words to different feelings and how each feeling may look.  Reading this book with your child will help them gain the vocabulary to communicate successfully with us and their peers.  

The main character Sophie gets upset about her troy. We get angry sometimes.  We see how Sophie utilizes a familiar/cozy place to help her go through her feelings in a safe way.

Children may not be ready to talk about their feelings at the moment.  They need a safe and comfortable place to be able to go through their feelings until they are ready to rejoin in previous activities or start a new one.  Sometimes children need to just let their feelings out.  Do you feel that way sometimes?

Louie the Elephant has big emotions but he learns that maybe there are reasons for those feelings.

This book would help your child label their feelings and help them begin to think about what may be causing those feelings.  Start having conversations with your children in a safe and calm way to help them think about what may be going on and how they can safely and effectively go through their emotions.

The Feelings Book is about different feelings and how it may look.  “Sometimes I feel silly.  Sometimes I feel like eating pasta for breakfast.”  Feelings may look different for everyone!

Reading this with your child will help them learn the vocabulary to communicate with those around them.  Feelings may look different for everyone!  How does it look for you?  It can spark conversations on what we do when we are happy, or angry or even silly.

This book helps young children understand that hands hurt.  There are many good uses for our wonderful hands.

This book can spark conversations with young children by keeping it positive.  We can ask the children, “What can we use our hands for?”  By phrasing it positively.  This can lead to positive thinking in our children.

The main character Angelin encounters and overcomes feelings of difference from her peers.

With children, this book can help facilitate a conversation about our differences.  This is a good way to start understanding and celebrating our differences, as well as others.

Elmore has a tough time with the new little person in his life.  

A lot of children become older siblings one day.  This can be a tough time for them emotionally.  Reading this book can help your child’s feelings be validated.  They can learn to understand that having

This book is about owl babies whose mom is gone.  They wonder when she'll be back.   

This book helps children understand that parents come back.  It may be hard to understand why parents leave at first, but by having this conversation with your children, it can make separation easier.

Llama Llama starts a new school and Mama has to leave.  “But where is she going? Where am I?”

This book helps show that starting a new school can be a bit scary.  But once you settle in, the school can be a fun and comfortable place to be; making new friends and playing with new toys is exciting.  And most importantly, Mama always comes back!

The rabbit is doing something with that box.  What could it be?

This book helps encourage children to “think outside the box.”  What can we do with this box? Can it be turned into something else?  

This is about Harold and the adventure he goes on with his purple crayon to find his way home.

This book helps promote imagination and creativity.  What can we use our crayons for?  What can we draw?  Draw with your child(ren), talk about what they are creating, and ask open-ended questions.  The possibilities are endless!

Auggie was born with a facial difference.  He did not start in public school until the 5th grade.  This book portrays the different views the people in the community have when they see Auggie.

This book can start conversations on differences.  How do you feel?  How do you think the other person feels?  Aside from appearances, are they different from us?

This book literally has no pictures!  But it shows that words can have so much power.  Well, not just power but silliness as well!

This book helps us understand that we don't always need pictures to help tell a story.  This book helps us see that words have power over the readers.  They make us say anything that is on its pages.