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Books for little ones about feeling, emotions and kindness
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items I love to use books to teach my little one about his feelings and emotions 👦
This is our favourite selection of books which help young readers to understand, express, and manage their emotions in a healthy way. These picks feature relatable characters, engaging stories, and colourful illustrations that teach kids about differ...
Many include interactive elements, discussion prompts, or coping strategies to help children navigate their feelings. Whether through playful storytelling or gentle guidance, these books provide valuable emotional education, fostering self-awareness,...
This is our favourite selection of books which help young readers to understand, express, and manage their emotions in a healthy way. These picks feature relatable characters, engaging stories, and colourful illustrations that teach kids about differ...
Many include interactive elements, discussion prompts, or coping strategies to help children navigate their feelings. Whether through playful storytelling or gentle guidance, these books provide valuable emotional education, fostering self-awareness,...
Explore a world of emotions with this stunning peep-through picture book ✨ This little book is a wonderful way to help children understand and recognise their feelings and emotions and brings to life the importance of empathy.
Feelings
This thoughtful book explores happiness, sadness, anger, fear and worry in a friendly and approachable way for little children 🧒
What are Feelings?
This book helps children understand why we have different fears and worries and the physical effects they can have on our bodies. It then offers all sorts of fun and helpful activities and strategies to help manage and even overcome them.
All About Worries and Fears
My son adores this book why kindness is important. It’s not just about being kind to others, it's about being kind to ourselves, kind to nature and kind to our planet too!
How Can I Be Kind?
A reassuring and sensitive book - the perfect springboard for talking to children about sharing their hidden worries.
Ruby’s Worry
What actually IS love? Is love always LOVELY? Does love last FOREVER? This delightful book takes a gentle look at what it means to love and be loved ❤️
What is love?
A bestselling story about confidence, self-esteem, and a shy little mouse who sets out on a journey to find his roar 🦁
The Lion Inside
Meet a cast of characterful frogs who hop their way in and out of a range of relatable scenarios, receiving lots of helpful advice along the way 🐸
Lift-the-Flap: Why Am I Afraid?
From sharing our crayons to inviting everyone to play, this book shows us lots of ways to spread kindness and friendship!
Kindness Makes Us Strong
How are you feeling today? This lively and engaging exploration of emotions helps young children learn to answer this important question. Topics covered include learning to describe feelings, how your feelings can change, and being kind to yourself. ...
All About Feelings
This easy-to-read rhyming story, with gentle humour and gorgeous artwork, is a perfect introduction to kindness 🐨
Kindness for Koalas
With this lovely little book, discover the importance of taking turns, being fair and sharing our planet with all living things. There's plenty to talk about and be inspired by ❤️
Why Should I Share?
All sorts of emotions are explored in this delightfully illustrated sticker book, including feeling excited, worried, embarrassed or jealous at a party, sports day or on a day out. There's plenty of descriptive vocabulary for children to learn along ...
First Sticker Book Feelings
This pick explores themes of love and loss in this life-affirming and uplifting tale.
The Heart and the Bottle
This important book prompts children to question certain behaviours and why they happen.
What Makes You Do That?
A sweet and truly uplifting story that celebrates diversity in a subtle but unique way, and inspires children to dare to be different and have the courage to stand out.
Perfectly Norman
The perfect book to help children cope with feeling shy.
I'm Feeling (a Little Bit) Shy
Helping children to understand and recognise the feeling of sadness, and find useful ways to cope with it.
Why do I (sometimes) feel sad?
An exploration of feelings represented by colours 🌈
The Colour Monster
Why can't I be happy all the time? What can I do when I feel like exploding? Is it ok to give up? This book is packed full of tips, tools and everyday situations to help kids think about and answer these BIG questions for themselves.
Questions and Answers About Feelings
A laugh out loud rhyming story about dealing with change and overcoming worries - one of our all time favourites!
The Koala Who Could
Told from the little girl's perspective, the story explores a worry common to young children in a gentle, humorous way, coming to a lovely, comforting conclusion that might help allay any similar fears a reader may have.
I'm Not (Very) Afraid of Being Alone
This joyful board book celebrates uniqueness, diversity, and the freedom to express ourselves however we choose!
You're Fabulous As You Are
Using a goodhearted, enthusiastic little boy's perspective, a lot of sensitivity and a little gentle humour, this story explores the potential pitfalls of trying to be kind, and what being kind really means.
I'm (Almost) Always Kind
Young children will love learning about manners with this delightful book.
Kindness Rules!
This gorgeous picture book tells the story of a little boy's fear of the Dark. Ingenious holes cut in the illustrations help to explore his feelings.
I'm Not (Very) Afraid of the Dark
Children will fall in love with Logan, the scaredy-rabbit hero who fights off a wolf with a tin of home-baked biscuits.
A Little Bit Brave
This heartwarming book follows a brother and sister as they navigate the highs and lows of their day. From fear to bravery, anger to peace, this gentle story in pictures offers a simple guide to life.
Sometimes
A joyful and imaginative book of feelings 🦥
Find Your Happy
This is a great dip-in book where children can choose a feeling that relates to them and then turn to the page that provides child-friendly strategies for dealing with that feeling.
How Are You Feeling Today?
Lift the large flaps throughout the book to reveal a variety of emotions and use the mirror on the last page to check out your own facial expressions!
How Are You Feeling?
Bold, bright and empowering, this is an inspiring story about coping with difficult situations. It's the ideal book for helping children to build resilience and embrace a 'can do' approach to life.
Tilda Tries Again
Gentle themes of resiliency, mindfulness, and self-care are brought home in this sweet and soulful picture book with charmingly graphic illustrations and a poetic text.
Sometimes, All I Need Is Me
This gentle and reassuring flap book provides plenty to talk about, as well as some top tips on how to deal with our worries.
Why do I (sometimes) worry?
Using gentle humour, delightful characters and beautifully-observed scenarios, this lift-the-flap book explores the power of saying sorry, when to do it and how to really mean it.
Why should I say sorry?
A fantastic first book of feelings that introduces little ones to a wide range of emotions.
We Feel Happy!
This bold, beautiful board book introduces five essential expressions: happy, sad, angry, surprised, and silly.
Making Faces
A beautiful and gentle look at the circle of life!
Why Do Things Die?