Children's Books Based on Topic

Anxiety/Worries

  • "Wemberly Worried" by Kevin Henkes

  • "Wilma Jean, the Worry Machine" by Julia Cook

  • "Worries are like Clouds" by Shonna Innes

  • "What do you do with a Problem?" by Kobi Yamada

  • "Ruby's Worry" by Tom Percival


Anger/Frustration

  • "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" by Judith Viorst

  • "When Sophie Gets Really, Really Angry " by Molly Bang

  • "A Volcano in My Tummy : Helping Children to Handle Anger" by Eliane Whitehouse

  • "Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns its Okay to Back Away" by Howard Binkow

  • "When Miles Got Mad" by Sam Kurtzman-Counter and Abbie Schiller


Back to School

  • "First Day Jitters" by Julie Danneburg

  • "Amelia Bedelia's First Day of School" by Herman Parish


Friendship

  • "Enemy Pie" by Derek Munson

  • "Howard B Wigglebottom Learns we can all get along" by Howard Binkow

  • "Chester's Way" by Kevin Henkes

  • "Stick and Stone" by Beth Ferry

  • "The Crayon Box that Talked" by Shane DeRolf


Feelings and Emotions

  • "Happy Hippo, Angry Duck" by Sandra Boynton

  • "Glad Monster, Sad Monster" by Ed Emberley

  • "Feelings to Share from A to Z" by Todd and Peggy Snow

  • "Today I feel Silly and Other Moods that make my Day" by Jamie Lee Curtis


Grief and Loss

  • "The Heart and the Bottle" by Oliver Jeffers

  • "I Miss You : A First Look at Death" by Pat Thomas

  • "Before I Leave" by Jessixa Bagley

  • "Always Remember" by Cece Meng


Impulse Control

  • "My Mouth is a Volcano" by Julia Cook

  • "Its Hard to be a Verb" by Julia Cook

  • "Personal Space Camp" by Julia Cook

  • "Interrupting Chicken" by David Ezra Stein

  • "Clark the Shark" by Bruce Hale

  • "Too Loud Lilly" by Sofie Laguna


Honesty

  • "Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse" by Kevin Henkes

  • "Howard B. Wiggle Bottom and the Monkey on his Back " by Howard Binkow


Being you!

  • "A Bad Case of the Stripes" by David Shannon

  • "Chrysanthemum" by Kevin Henkes

  • "I'm Gonna Like Me " by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell


Kami Export - Questions_To_Ask.pdf


While reading a book consider asking these questions to promote SEL learning!