Self Awareness and Personal Discovery

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The Feelings Book by Todd Parr is a picture book designed to explain different emotions to kids. The book highlights all the different changes a kid might feel in their early childhood. This book is great for showing kids the meaning to their feelings and how they can control unstable ones like anger or sorrow. It also shows how diverse emotions can be and how some children may feel stronger emotions than others. It displays vibrant pictures showing different scenarios on what might trigger a certain emotional response. It’s a book children and adults can enjoy alike.

Parr, Todd. The Feelings Book. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2000. 

The Cold Little Voice by Alison Hughes is about the negative thoughts we tell ourselves. This picture book shows how a child's own mind can convince themselves that they aren’t as good as everyone else. This book shows kids how they can cope with these thoughts. It spreads awareness on how to treat others as well that may be experiencing these thoughts. The book promotes that we are as smart as we decide to be. 

Hughes, Alison. The Cold Little Voice. Clockwise Press, 2019. 

Ruby’s Worry by Tom Percival is about how anxiety can slowly build on a child. It follows Ruby, who progressively grows more and more worried about a situation and can’t figure out how to calm herself down. This book shows kids how to cope with worrying. It also spreads awareness of how anxiety can take over your mind, which will show kids why other kids may be acting uneasy. By learning how to cope with this overwhelming feeling at an early age, children are sure to be one step closer to success and becoming a prime reader.

Percival, Tom. Ruby’s Worry . Bloomsberry , 2019.