Recommended Books
I find books to be an incredibly useful tool when talking to kids about emotions, life changes and big topics. They are a great way to open up conversations and give you somewhere to ground yourself. Here you will find a lot of different books to read with your little ones and workbooks for tweens and teens. All the books listed have been read and used multiple times by myself in my therapy room and/or with my child.
The reading lists below cover: Feelings, Family & Changes, Siblings, Food, Sleep, Bodies, Sex and Babies, Consent, Gender, Toileting
Starting Nursery or School, Friendship and Bullying, Mindfulness For Kids, Illness & Hospitals, Death & Bereavement, Child Development, Parenting & Parenthood, Anti-Racism, Growth Mindset, Neurodiversity, Physical Disability, War, Refugees & World Disasters, Books For You & Your Relationships, Culture Club, Halloween & Fear. These lists will be updated regularly and new sections added as appropriate.
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Feelings
Happy Healthy Minds
Listening to My Body
Love you Forever
Tabitha and the Raincloud
Go! Go! Go! Stop!
Where Happiness Begins
Ivy and the Lonely Raincloud
When Sadness Comes to Call
An Emotional Menagerie
Today I Feel...
How Are You Feeling Today?
A Shelter for Sadness
The Rabbit Listened
Michael Rosen's Sad Book
Niko Draws a Feeling
Worry Monsters
The Koala Who Could
What To Do When You Worry Too Much
Ruby's Worry
Huge Bag of Worries
Helping Children Locked in Rage or Hate
Ravi's Roar
The Lion Inside
The Positivity Workbook for Teens
The Anxiety Toolkit for Teens
The Anxious Thoughts Workbook for Teens
The Sea Saw
A Volcano In My Tummy
The Stompysaurus
Family and Changes
Questions and Answers About Growing Up
My Mom and Dad Don't Live Together Anymore
I Don't Want To Talk About It
Love Makes a Family
I'm a New Big Sister
How Big is Our Baby?
My Family's Changing
I'm a New Big Brother
When Mom and Dad Separate
Parents Get Divorced
The Invisible String
How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk
The Great Big Book of Families
There's a House Inside My Mummy
Heather Has Two Mommies
Mum and Dad Glue
The Great Big Book of Famillies
Siblings
Babies Don't Eat Pizza
Big Sister Learns All About Babies - When Will Baby Play?
Big Sister Learns All About Babies - Curious and Crawling
Big Sister Learns All About Babies - Itty Bitty Newborn
Alphonse That Is Not Ok To Do!
Jinx and the Doom Fight Crime!
I Used to Be Famous
When Miles Got Made
The Squirrels Who Squabbled
The Bad Birthday Idea
Maple & Willow Together
Dollop and Mrs Fabulous
The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon
My Brother Otto
Starting Nursery/School
All You Need To Know Before You Start School
Our Class is a Family
Tilda Tries Again
Meesha Makes Friends
All Are Welcome
In My Heart
The Invisible String Workbook
The Day You Begin
Mindfulness for Little Ones
The Invisible String
Food
Food Play!
Let's Eat!
Baby Let's Eat!
Food
The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook
How to wean your baby
Eating the Alphabet
Sleep
Has Dad Joined The Circus
A Beach in The Bedroom
Slug Dad & Monster Mum
Marshmallow Puffins at the Window
ARLO The lion who couldn't sleep
good night yoga
Still Awake
Bodies, Sex & Babies
Baby Biochemist DNA
Grow - Secrets of Our DNA
The Secret Code Inside of You
Own Your Period
Making a Baby
What Makes a Baby
Sex Is A Funny Word
See Inside Your Body
My First Body Book
It's NOT The Stork!
The Girls Guide to Growing Up
MY BODY. What I Say GOES!
Who Has What? All About Girls' Bodies and Boys' Bodies
Amazing You!
What's Happening To Me?
The Boy's Guide to Growing Up
Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent & Respect
What's Happening to Me?
Let's Talk About Sex
There's a House Inside My Mummy
Gender
Introducing Teddy
Who Am I? I Am ME!
The GIRLS
Julian is a Mermaid
My Brother's Name is Jessica
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales
I'm a Girl
My Shadow is Pink
Pink Is For Boys
Tough Guys Have Feelings Too
How To Heal a Broken Wing
Jabari Jumps
Consent
Consent The New Rules of Sex Education
Can We Talk About Consent?
Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent & Respect
Don't Hug Doug (He Doesn't Like It)
MY BODY! What I Say GOES!
With My Permission
It's My Body
Consent
Yes! No!
Toileting
On My Potty
What is Poo?
Everyone Poops
Where's The Poop?
All Aboard the Toilet Train
Hey Duggee
A Potty For Me!
Time to use the Potty!
Friendship & Bullying
Stand Up for Yourself & Your Friends
Dealing with Bullying
When a Dragon Comes To Stay
The Day You Begin
While We Can't Hug
Lost and Found
How I Beat My Bully
Mindfulness for Kids
Mindfulness Cards
Yoga Pretzels
CALM Mindfulness Flashcards for Kids
Mindful Kids
CALM Mindfulness for Kids
Finding OM
Illness & Hospitals
Look Inside A Hospital
Hospital Adventures
Peppa Goes to Hospital
Going to the Hospital
Tube Feeding
Hydrocephalus
Tracheostomy
Type 1 Diabetes
A Visit to the Hospital
Sometimes
Death & Bereavement
The Memory Tree
The Sea Saw
When Someone Very Special Dies
Heaven
The Invisible String
When Someone Has a Very Serious Illness
The Heart and the Bottle
Always and Forever
Water Bugs and Dragonflies
The Magic Paintbrush
The Memory Box
Badger's Parting Gifts
Child Development
Why Love Matters
Understanding Your Baby
Understanding Your One Year Old
Understanding Your Two Year Old
Understanding 4-5-Year-Olds
Understanding 6-7-Year-Olds
Understanding 10-11-Year-Olds
Understanding 12-14-Year-Olds
Understanding Your Child With Special Needs
Parenting & Parenthood
Reflective Parenting
Still Awake
Nurturing Natures
Why Love Matters
How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kid Will Talk
The Whole-Brain Child
Anti-Racism
My Hair
This Book Is Anti-Racist
Hey You!
Young Gifted and Black
I Am Whole
Our Skin
Who Are You?
Antiracist Baby
HUES of You
Young Gifted and Black
Know Me By My Name
Not Like The Others
I Like Myself
ABC What Can She Be?
One Love
M Is For Melanin
Malala's Magic Pencil
The Skies Above My Eyes
All Are Welcome
The Proudest Blue
Clean Up!
Hair Love
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
Growth Mindset
What We'll Build
How to Catch a Star
Stuck
The Magnificent Thing
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain
A Perfectly Messed-Up Story
Look Up!
Rosie Revere, Engineer
When We Grow Up
My Strong Mind
Ada Twist, Scientist
Neurodiversity
Executive Functioning Workbook
The ASD Workshop
The Abilities in Me - Autism
The Abilities in Me
The Abilities in Me - Down Syndrome
The Abilities in Me
The Abilities in Me - Speech Delay
Smart but Scattered
Physical Disability
Just Because
Lovely
You Can't Blend In
Amazing
War, Refugees and World Disasters
Counting Kindness
tThe Suitcase
The Day The War Came
Malala's Magic Pencil
What is a Refugee
The Journey
My Name is Not Refugee
Wisp - A Story of Hope
For You and Your Relationships
Real Boys
The State of Affairs
Man Enough
Period Power
The Fair Play Deck
Mind the Gap
Fair Play
Culture Club
Where the Crawdads Sing
With the End in Mind
Atlas of the Heart
A Boy Called Christmas
How Not to be a Boy
The Lost Daughter
Halloween & Fear
Where's Mrs Witch?
Bear's Scare
Splat the Cat What Was That?
Witch
Room on the Broom
The Funnybones Collection
Give the Dog a Bone
