BOOK LIST

Books For Adults

  • A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne

  • Why Gender Matters by Leonard Saxs

  • Raising Resilient Children : Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child by Robert Brooks

  • Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14 by Chip Wood

Books For Children

General

  • The Missing Piece Meets the Big O by Shel Silverstein

  • The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson

  • I’m Gonna Like Me by Jaime Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell

Perfectionism

  • Not so Perfect Polly by Ashley McClain

  • Scaredy Squirrel by Mélanie Watt

Anxiety

  • Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes

  • What to do When a Worry is Worrying You by Dawn Huebner and Bonnie Matthews

  • Courage by Bernard Waber

  • Wilma Jean Worry Machine by Julia Cook

  • Ish by Peter Reynolds

  • Worry Says What by Allison Edwards

Friendship

  • Stick Up For Yourself by Gershen Laufman, Lev Raphael and Pamela Espeland

  • Enemy Pie by Derek Munson

  • We Can Work It Out by Barbara K. Polland

  • The Kids’ Guide to Working Out Conflicts by Naomi Drew

  • How to Say NO and Keep Your Friends by Sharon Scott

  • Cliques, Phonies, & Other Baloney by Trevor Romain

  • The Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill

  • Stand up for Yourself by American Girl

  • Stand Tall Molly Lou Mellon by Patty Lovell

  • Have You Filled a Bucket Today by Carol McCloud

  • My Secret Bully by Trudy Ludwig

  • Nobody Knew What To Do- A Story About Bullying by Becky Ray McCain

Growth Mindset for Kids

  • The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires

  • The Girl who Never Made Mistakes by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein

  • Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg

  • Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak, Ph. D

Books For Children Continued

Gender Identity and Expression

  • I Am Jazz - by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings

  • Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino

  • Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall

Divorce

  • Divorce Happens to the Nicest Kids Revised by Michael S. Prokop

  • What in the World Do You Do When Your Parents Divorce by Kent Winchester & Roberta Beyer

Transition

  • The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

  • 25 Things to Do by Laurie A. Kanyer

  • Talking To Your Kids In Tough Times by Willow Bay

  • The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

  • The Night Before First Grade by Natasha Wing

  • Off to First Grade by Louise Borden

  • First Grade Jitters by Robert Quakenbush

Grief and Loss

  • The Fall of Freddie the Leaf by Leo Buscaglia

  • My Life Changed-A Journal for Coping with Loss & Grief by Free Spirit Publishing

  • The Goodbye Boat by Mary Joslin

  • The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

ADHD

  • The Seven Habits of Highly Successful ADDers by Dr. Edward Hallowell

  • Delivered from Distraction by Dr. Edward Hallowell

Family

  • Oh Brother…Oh, Sister! by American Girl Library

  • All Kinds Of Families by Norma Simon

  • The Family Book by Todd Parr

Homework and Organization

  • How to Homework Without Throwing Up by Trevor Romain

Coping

Board games are a great way to teach coping. Some of my favorites are…

  • Candyland

  • Chutes and Ladders

  • Trouble

  • Parcheesi

  • Uno

  • Checkers

  • Connect Four

  • Jenga