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Manage Emotions
This category can be used to provide kids with healthy ways to overcome challenges they might face: recognizing and managing emotions. The lesson that the stories teach is to find the courage to connect and share feelings with trusted people.
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“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood."
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- Voltaire
K-2
Layla's Happiness
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

Layla finds happiness in all she does. What is happiness to you?
#Poetry #Emotions #Black #African American #Urban #Community #Friendship
PK-3
The Memory String
Bunting, Eve

After her mother passes away, a girl keeps a memory string filled with buttons from her mother but when it breaks her step mom helps her search for the missing buttons and teach her the value of memories both old and new.
#Family #Loss #StepMother #Coping #Memories #Emotions
K-2
Mean Soup
Everitt, Betsy

Horace releases his anger through making soup with his mother and processing his strong emotions
#Anger #Emotions #Processing #Coping #ParentalSupport
PK-2
Yesterday I Had the Blues
Frame, Jeron Ashford

With the love of family, friends, and community, the young boy replaces his sadness with a view of beauty in life
#Depression #Emotions #Adversity #Love #Kindness #EmotinalAwareness
Prek-3
I am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness
Verde, Susan

Children can learn how to manage their emotions, find peace, and be mindfulness.
#Mindfulness #Peace #Emotion #Management #Social-emotional #Yoga
Prek-3
Jack (Not Jackie)
Erica Silverman

Susan learns to let go of her dreams of having a little sister and accept that Jackie identifies as Jack.
#Transgender #Gender #Family #LGBTQ #Identity #Siblings #Feelings #Emotions #Acceptance
Prek-2
Missing Daddy
Mariame Kaba

A little girl misses her father who is away in prison.
#Feelings #Emotions #Black #AfricanAmerican #Families #Incarceration #Prison #Fathers
Prek
My Heart Fills with Happiness
Monique Gray Smith

What fills your heart with happiness?
#Feelings #Emotions #Joy #Family #FirstNations #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #Canadian
Prek-K
One
Kathryn Otoshi

One teaches the colors how to stand up to bully Red through numbers, county, and colors.
#Bullying #Colors #Numbers #Bravery #Counting #SelfLove #Feelings #Emotions #SelfConfidence #StandUp
Prek-3
Thunder Boy Jr.
Sherman Alexie

Thunderboy Jr hates having the same name as his father. Together, they come up with the perfect name.
#Name #Identity #Fathers #Family #Emotions #FirstNations #NativeAmerican #Indigenous
Prek-2
Walk with Me
Jairo Buitrago

A girl creates an imaginary lion as a companion to cope with her father's absence.
#Family #Poverty #Emotions #UntraditionalFamilies
Prek-3
Home at Last
Vera B. Williams

Two dads help their adopted son adjust to his new life.
#Adoption #NontraditionalFamilies #UntraditionalFamilies #Gay #LGBTQ #Fathers #Feelings #Emotions
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