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Best Kids Books for Emotions & Empathy
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items One of my favourite things to do with my daughter is read books that nurture emotional development, literacy, and feelings. Stories with fun, relatable characters help her recognise and name her feelings, understand empathy, and build emotional aware...
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"Let's Talk About" Book Series
Empowering Books for Girls: Toddlers and Early Readers
Colourful Illustrated Emotion Books for Toddlers
"Let's Talk About" Book Series
The Let's Talk About series focuses on specific topics to support children and adults to talk about anxiety, change, resilience, and empathy together. All the books have clear font, colourful pages, and engaging illustrations to read with any age gro...
With large and colourful illustrations, this book has been perfect to spark conversations and encourage mental health literacy in my home especially around anxiety. It's easy to read and has lots of prompts for reflecting on together!
Let's Talk About Anxiety by Dr Libby Aitken
Emotion and feeling books are some of my favourite topics to encourage talking about with my toddler. This book teaches her emotional literacy in a simple and fun way and is one of those books thats growing with us.
Let's Talk About Change by Dr Libby Aitken
Empathy is an important trait to build and for children to recognize within themselves and others. I love this book for my toddler because it helps children understand kindness, compassion, and connection. Encouraging thoughtful conversations about e...
Let's Talk About Empathy by Dr Libby Aitken
I believe that resilience can be learned and for our kids, it's a trait that will stay with them for many years to come, honing as they go through different life stages. This book is a warm and illustrated book focusing on themes of develop confidenc...
Let's Talk About Resilience by Dr Libby Aitken
Empowering Books for Girls: Toddlers and Early Readers
It's really important to me to give my daughter the opportunity to read books that empower her as a growing woman. The books I choose have role models, relatable characters, and inspiring storylines. I think these will be a great gift for girls in your life too.
A beautifully illustrated book that empowers girls to dream big, believe in themselves, and explore who they’re meant to be. Featuring inspiring stories, reflective journaling, and real-life role models, Girls Like Us is the perfect gift (or to read ...
Girls Like Us by Katie Hewat
Another stunning dinosaur book focusing on enhancing imagination. For me, this one is great to read together, as a bedtime story or during the day during a quiet and cosy moment with your little one.
The Girl and the Dinosaur by Hollie Hughes and Sarah Massini
This charming book focuses on how little kids use their imagination to cope with adversity. Through the use of the unicorn, it gives an idea for children to cope when life gets tough. It's a lovely book to read together in my home.
Margaret's Unicorn by Briony May Smith
There seems to be a trend with girls that they go through a phase of having lots and lots of dresses! If your daughter is going through this phase, she will LOVE this book. I believe that it's a sweet, charming addition to any bookshelf, sparking cre...
A Dress with Pockets by Lily Murray and Jenny Lovlie
If your daughter is obsessed with bugs, she is going to ADORE this book! Bugs are nothing to be afraid of, but rather curious about. I love it because it has lots of beautiful illustrations to point out and big words to repeat. It's one that we flip ...
The Girl Who Loves Bugs by Lily Murray and Jenny Lovlie
With a play on words of popular nursery rhymes, this book empowers young girls to be confident in who they are, ask for what they want, and not be afraid to express themselves. I love this because these words will feel familiar to your little one, an...
What Are Little Girls Made of?
Colourful Illustrated Emotion Books for Toddlers
At this young age where they don't have a strong ability to read, toddlers benefit from colourful illustrations, engaging font, fun colours, and words that sound interesting enough to repeat. These are just some of the factors that I look for in the ...
Each letter of the alphabet has a word related to emotional wellbeing. This book is wonderfully illustrated, simple, calm, and a fun read with my toddler who enjoys saying BIG words! Great to have on hand right now.
Kids' A-Z of Emotional Regulation & Wellbeing
One of my all time favourite moments is when my toddler recognises feelings. When she says “happy”, “sad”, “mad”, and mimics how those faces look, it tells me she can recognise emotion. This book is a great start for helping your toddler recognise wh...
All Feelings Are Okay: A Kid's Book on Emotions
Anger is a perfectly normal emotion but what this book teaches kids is that they have a CHOICE in how they express those angry feelings. I love this book because it's a great way to teach toddlers to recognize and choose how they express their angry ...
I Choose to Calm My Anger: Picture Book
I adore this book because it normalises that even boys have feelings! And that it's okay to feel and express them in a healthy way. It's a great gift or read with your son to normalise healthily expressing emotions.
The Boy with Big, Big Feelings by Britney Winn Lee
I don't know about you but dinosaurs are a hit in my household. Naturally, this book is one that we return to again and again to normalise emotion and learn which emotion usually arises in which situation.
The Feelings Dinosaurs by Emily Hartmann
My daughter loves lift-the-flap books and this one is no exception! I've found this one to be very common in libraries, bookstores, and friends homes. It's a very colourful book with faces “exaggerated” for little ones. A fun read for parents and chi...
Find Out About: Feelings - Lift-The-Flap
I love when my toddler notices expressions and exclaims what they might be "mad!", "sad", "happy!". This is a great visual tool for toddlers to start identifying what emotions look like.
Mood Flip Book: Helps Kids Learn to Identify and Manage Their Emotions|Other Format