Books for Kids

Community, Identity, Acceptance:

• Hooray for Diffendoofer Day (Dr. Seuss)
• How Full is Your Bucket? for Kids (Rath and Reckmeyer)
• Can I Join Your Club? (Kelly and Laberis, Kane Miller/Usborne Publishing)
• Jamie is Jamie (Morandian)
• The Little Red Fort (Maier)
• Try a Little Kindness (Cole)
• Boy (Cummings & Devries, Kane Miller/Usborne Publishing)
• We're All Wonders (Palacio)
• Chrysanthemum (Henkes)
• The Family Book (Parr)
• Born Bad (Smouha)
• Her Right Foot (Eggers)
• Hurricane Child (Callendar)
• I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark (Levy & Baddeley)
• Hello, Universe (Kelly)
• I’m Gonna Like Me (Curtis & Connell)
• The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness (Thompson)

Feelings, Emotional Regulation:

• Personal Space Camp (Cook)
• F is for Feelings (Miller and Berger)
• Feelings Book (Parr)
• Know and Follow Rules (Meiners)
• Today I Feel Silly (Curtis)
• Cool Down and Work Through Anger (Meiners)
• Wilma Jean the Worry Machine (Cook)
• You are a Star (Abolaffio, Kane Miller)
• Hello, Happy! (Coombes, Kane Miller)
• No Worries! (Coombes, Kane Miller)
• One (Otoshi)
• Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners (Keller)
• Superheroes Say Please! (DC Super Heroes)
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Viorst)
• Wemberly Worried (Henkes)
• The Busy Body Book (Rockwell)

Empathy, Perspective-Taking:

• A Tale of Two Beasts (Roberton, Kane Miller/Usborne Publishing)
• Ruby the Copycat (Rathmann & Rathmann)
• Talk and Work it Out (Meiners)
• But it's Not My Fault (Cook)
• Stand in My Shoes (Sornson)
• The Invisible Boy (Ludwig)
• Terrible Things (Bunting)
• Be Kind (Miller)
• Weird (Frankel)
• Dare (Frankel)
• Ouch! Moments: When Words are Used in Hurtful Ways (Genhart)

+ Anything by Trudy Ludwig and Julia Cook!

Career Development:

• Ada Twist, Scientist (Beaty)
• Iggy Peck, Architect (Beaty)
• Rosie Revere, Engineer (Beaty)
• When I Grow Up (Yankovic)
• I Want to Be an Astronaut (Brown & Coburn, Kane Miller Publishing)
• I Want to Be a Lion Tamer (Brown & Coburn, Kane Miller Publishing)
• Amelia Who Could Fly (Corso & Volpari, Kane Miller Publishing)

Grief:

• One of the Hardest Days of My Life (Schmidt)
• Resources available from The Dougy Center