Recommended Books
ADHD · Anger · Anxiety · Breathing & Mindfulness · Bullying · Depression · Divorce · Grief · Growth Mindset · OCD · Parenting · Self-Regulation · Separation Anxiety · Siblings
Baxter Turns Down His Buzz: Written for children ages 4 to 8 with ADHD and impulsiveness, Baxter Turns Down His Buzz is the story of a high-energy rabbit who learns to control his activity level. Baxter was the fastest bunny in the forest. His mind buzzed with thoughts and his body wanted to zoom! But sometimes he lost control of his buzz and his zoom, like when he rammed into the raccoons during the annual forest race.
Cory Stories: A Kid’s Book About Living with ADHD: Cory has lots of stories to tell—and lots of ways to get organized, pay attention, calm down, remember things, make friends, and feel good about himself and life with ADHD. In short statements and vignettes, Cory describes what it’s like to have ADHD: how it affects his relationships with friends and family, his school performance, and his overall functioning.
Learning to Plan and Be Organized: Executive Function Skills for Kids with ADHD: Featuring real-life advice, strategies, and tips, Learning to Plan and Be Organized is a practical guide that teaches kids with AD/HD how to enhance their executive function skills of planning and organization. This reader-friendly and easy-to-use book includes checklists, pointers, and activities. The book also includes illustrations that will help hold children s interest. Includes additional resources for parents.
Learning to Feel Good and Stay Cool: Emotional Regulation Tools for Kids with ADHD: Offers practical tools to help kids with AD/HD manage and reduce unwanted feelings and to develop daily habits that can help them feel good and function well. Illustrated with cartoons that will hold children's interest, the book is divided into sections that can be read in smaller portions.
Learning To Slow Down & Pay Attention: A Book for Kids About ADHD: Packed with practical tips, know-how, and fun, this friendly workbook just for kids has solutions for every situation — at home, at school, and with friends.
My Whirling Twirling Motor: Charlie feels like he has a whirling, twirling motor running inside him all the time and sometimes he just can’t settle. When his mom wants to talk to him, he figures he’s in trouble…but she has a surprise for him instead!
My Wandering Dreaming Mind: Sadie feels like her thoughts are soaring into the clouds and she can’t bring them back down to earth. She has trouble paying attention, which makes keeping track of schoolwork, friends, chores, and everything else really tough. Sometimes she can only focus on her mistakes. When Sadie talks to her parents about her wandering, dreaming mind, they offer a clever plan to help remind Sadie how amazing she is.
ADHD
1-2-3 A Calmer Me: Provides young children with simple relaxation techniques to help them manage their emotions
A Little Spot of Anger: A creative story that helps kids understand and manage their anger
Hello Anger: A step-by-step guide for children on how to manage their anger
Roaring Mad Riley: Helps children identify and manage their anger in a positive way
Sam’s Pet Temper: A story about a boy who learns to tame his temper
Soda Pop Head: Teaches kids how to manage their anger and avoid letting it control their actions
Stay Cool at School: Provides children with strategies to manage anxiety and anger in school
Taste Your Words: Helps children learn to choose their words carefully and avoid hurtful language
Way Past Mad: A story about a girl who learns to manage her anger with the help of her family
What to Do When Your Temper Flares: Helps children understand and manage their anger in a positive way
Anger
A Little Spot of Anxiety: A Story About Calming Your Worries: Anxiety comes from feelings of being worried, scared, or anxious. When these feelings are in small amounts that’s okay because they are there to help protect us, but when they get TOO BIG, they become overwhelming and need to be managed. When a child experiences anxiety it can prevent them from doing what he/she wants and and/or needs to do, which can make anxiety a disability.
A Little Spot of Worry: A little Worry SPOT helps children identifies the two different types of WORRIES. A USEFUL WORRY (a worry that can help keep you safe) and a SPINNING WORRY (an IMAGINED worry that prevents you from doing something safe and fun). If you are able to recognize the difference between the two you can prevent a SPINNING WORRY from turning into a BIG ANXIETY SPOT.
Facing Mighty Fears About Throwing Up: Helps kids with emetophobia (fear of vomiting) understand and manage their anxiety.
Facing Mighty Fears About Trying New Things: Helps children with anxiety around new experiences to understand and manage their feelings.
Facing Mighty Fears About Your Health: Helps children with health anxiety to understand and manage their feelings.
Herman Jiggle, Say Hello!: Teaches children the importance of being themselves and not worrying about what others think.
Hey Warrior: Helps kids understand anxiety and provides them with tools to cope with it.
How Big Are Your Worries Little Bear: Helps children learn to manage their worries and anxiety in a positive way.
I’m Stretched: Helps children learn how to handle stress and anxiety in a positive way.
Jonathan James & The What if Monster: Teaches children how to conquer their fears and worries.
Outsmarting Worry: An Older Kid’s Guide to Managing Anxiety: Provides practical strategies for older children to overcome anxiety.
The Anti-Test Anxiety Society: Helps children overcome test anxiety by teaching them strategies for managing their fears.
What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety: A workbook that provides practical strategies for kids to overcome anxiety.
What to Do When You Don’t Want To Be Apart: Separation Anxiety
Wilma Jean the Worry Machine: Shows kids how to deal with their worries and fears.
Anxiety
B is for Breathe: This board book teaches mindfulness and meditation techniques to children.
Be Where Your Feet Are: This book teaches children the importance of staying present in the moment through mindfulness practices.
Breathing Makes it Better: This book introduces mindfulness and breathing exercises to children to help them manage difficult emotions.
Sitting Like A Saint: Catholic Mindfulness for Kids: This book teaches Catholic mindfulness practices for children.
The Mindful Catholic: Discover how mindfulness can help you be more present to everything in your life from a trip to the grocery store or relaxing with friends to listening more attentively to a homily or meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary.
Breathing & Mindfulness
Lunch Box Bully: Big Bob is a bully who takes Max's lunch every day. Max's friends try to help him deal with it. "Don't look at him," says one friend-- but Big Bob takes Max's sandwich anyway. "Give him a gift," suggests another friend. Max gives Big Bob a lemon ice, but the bully doesn't like lemon-- so he squashes it on Max's head. Clever Max figures out a way to outwit Big Bob, and starts bringing lemon-flavored lunches. And once his lunches are safe, Max reaches out to Big Bob in friendship. Soon all of the children enjoy lunch together!
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon: Be yourself like Molly Lou Melon no matter what a bully may do. Molly Lou Melon is short and clumsy, has buck teeth, and has a voice that sounds like a bullfrog being squeezed by a boa constrictor. She doesn't mind. Her grandmother has always told her to walk proud, smile big, and sing loud, and she takes that advice to heart. But then Molly Lou has to start in a new school. A horrible bully picks on her on the very first day, but Molly Lou Melon knows just what to do about that.
The Juice Box Bully: Have you ever seen a bully in action and done nothing about it? The kids at Pete's new school get involved, instead of being bystanders. When Pete begins to behave badly, his classmates teach him about "The Promise". Will Pete decide to shed his bullying habits and make "The Promise"?
Enemy Pie: Enemy Pie serves up a sweet lesson as one little boy learns an effective recipe for turning a best enemy into a best friend.
Llama Llama and the Bully Goat: Taking on a difficult but important part of children's lives, Anna Dewdney gives readers a way to experience and discuss bullying in a safe and comforting way.
The Recess Queen: A fresh & original twist on the common issue of bullying. Kids will relate, & parents & teachers will appreciate the story's deft handling of conflict resolution.
Stick and Stone: When Stick rescues Stone from a prickly situation with Pinecone, a friendship is born. But when Stick gets stuck, can Stone return the favor?
Chrysanthemum - A First Day of School Book: This is an ideal break-the-ice book for the first week of school. It get children thinking about and bonding with their own names and the names of everyone else in the class, and it's the perfect vehicle for starting a discussion about treating classmates with tolerance, kindness, and compassion.
Bullying
A Flicker of Hope: Encourages children to have hope and find ways to cope during difficult times.
Blueloon: Helps children understand and manage sadness and depression.
Happy Right Now: Encourages children to find happiness in the present moment.
The Awfulizer: Learning to Overcome the Shame Game: A story about a boy who learns to overcome his feelings of shame and guilt.
Visiting Feelings: Helps children learn to recognize and manage their emotions.
You Are Special: Teaches children about self-worth and the importance of being kind to others.
Depression
Charlie Anderson: A heartwarming story about a dog who belongs to two families and finds a way to bring them together.
The D Word: Helps children understand and manage the difficult emotions that come with divorce.
Two Happy Homes: Provides guidance and support for children who are adjusting to life in two households after their parents' divorce.
Divorce
Grief is Like a Snowflake: A therapeutic story about grief and loss that helps children identify and cope with their emotions.
The Invisible String: A heartwarming story about the unbreakable connections between loved ones, no matter where they are.
Wherever You Are My Love Will Find You: A touching story about the unending love between a parent and child, and how that love can cross all distances and overcome any obstacle.
Why Do Things Die: An accessible introduction to the concept of death, designed to help young children understand why it happens and how to cope with the emotions that can arise as a result.
Grief
Bubble Gum Brain: Teaches children the importance of having a growth mindset and learning from mistakes.
Giraffes Can’t Dance: A touching tale of Gerald the giraffe, who wants nothing more than to dance.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success: This book teaches parents and children about the power of a growth mindset and how it can improve their lives.
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes: A charming story about a girl who learns that making mistakes is a natural part of life and can help us grow and learn.
The Magical Yet: Encourages children to embrace their potential and use the word "yet" to help them persevere through challenges.
The Most Magnificent Thing: A story about a girl who learns the importance of perseverance and creativity as she tries to invent the "most magnificent thing."
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: A book about the amazing capabilities of the human brain and how it can grow and change.
Growth Mindset
Blink, Blink, Clop, Clop An OCD Storybook: A storybook that explains OCD to young children through a horse's journey of overcoming his obsessions and compulsions.
Standing Up to OCD Workbook for Kids: A workbook that includes CBT and exposure-response prevention (ERP) techniques to help children manage their OCD.
What to Do When & Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming OCD: A guidebook to help kids manage their obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
OCD
Boundaries with Kids: This book teaches parents how to set healthy boundaries with their children to help them develop positive behavior and relationships.
Boundaries with Teens: This book provides parents with guidance on setting boundaries with their teenagers to help them become responsible and independent adults.
Grounded: Discovering the Missing Piece in the Puzzle of Children’s Behavior: This book explores the root causes of children's behavior and offers practical strategies for parents to help their children develop positive behavior.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk: This book provides parents with communication strategies to help them talk and listen effectively to their children.
No Drama Discipline: This book helps parents understand how to discipline their children in a way that fosters emotional intelligence and positive behavior.
Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child: This book provides parents with the tools they need to help their children develop emotional intelligence and positive social skills.
The Whole Brain Child: This book provides parents with strategies to help their children develop emotional intelligence, resilience, and improved behavior.
Parenting
Clark the Shark: A book about a young shark who learns about social skills and making friends.
Do Unto Otters: A book that teaches children about treating others with kindness and respect through the story of otters.
I Have Ants in My Pants: A book that provides children with strategies to manage their anxiety and worries.
Listening to My Body: A guidebook to help children learn how to listen to their bodies and develop healthy habits.
My Mouth Is A Volcano: A book that teaches children about managing their thoughts and emotions, and how to express themselves effectively.
That Rule Doesn’t Apply to Me!: A book that teaches children about adapting to social norms and understanding how their actions affect others.
The 7 Habits of Happy Kids: A book that teaches children about positive habits and attitudes, including being proactive, setting goals, and working well with others.
The Way I Act: A book that teaches children about positive social behaviors, including kindness, honesty, and respect.
What if Everybody Did That: A book that helps children learn about social responsibility and how their actions can affect others.
Self-Regulation
A Jar Full of Kisses: A heartwarming story about a grandmother's love for her granddaughter and the power of love
The Invisible String: A story about the unbreakable connections between loved ones, no matter how far apart they are
The Kissing Hand: A story about a mother raccoon reassuring her child on his first day of school
When I Miss You (The Way I Feel Books): A story that teaches children that it's okay to miss someone and that love is always present.
Wherever You Are My Love Will Find You: A beautiful ode to the unending love between a parent and a child