Back to School Picks
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Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Christine McLaughlin Growing Friendships: A Kids' Guide to Making and Keeping Friends
With research-based, practical solutions and plenty of true-to-life-examples of social skills in practice-presented in lighthearted humorous cartoons-Growing Friendships is a toolkit for both boys and girls as they make sense of the social environment around them. They will learn how to be open to friendship, choose kind friends, and most important, be a good friend. Ages: 6-9
$23.99
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Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Christine McLaughlin Growing Feelings: A Kids' Guide to Dealing with Emotions about Friends and Other Kids
A Kids' Guide to Dealing with Emotions about Friends and Other Kids Everyone likes the idea of "best friends forever," but friendships are complicated, and often involve dealing with difficult feelings. It's common to feel shy at a party where you don't know anyone, furious during an argument with a friend, or sad when a friend moves away. This entertaining and empowering book addresses a wide range of feelings, including worry, guilt, jealousy, compassion, and gratitude. Kids learn how to recognize the Feelings Story behind common friendship rough spots, demonstrating the links between events, thoughts, emotions, actions, and social reactions through the situational cartoons and understand how their reactions fuel or resolve relationship problems. Here is a nuanced perspective on feelings about friends that emphasizes how all emotions are useful. Kids learn how to empathize with others' reactions, as well as how to understand, manage, and communicate in healthy ways about their own feelings. Caring friendships are a protective factor for children's mental health. Giving kids the tools they need to deal with the feelings about friends is a powerful step toward protecting and improving their well-being. Ages: 6-12
$23.99
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Can I Tell You About ADHD?
A Guide For Friends, Family and Professionals Meet Ben, a young boy with ADHD. Ben invites readers to learn about ADHD from his perspective. He helps children understand what it means to have ADHD and describes what it is and how it feels. Ben explains how he was diagnosed and what he has learnt about ways to relieve his ADHD symptoms, and how friends and adults can help at home and school.
$24.95
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Alyssa Reynoso-Morris, Doris Rodríguez Gloriana, Presente: A First Day of School Story
Enter the classroom in this joyful story of growth that will help new students find their voice. With Spanish words throughout the text, this radiant picture book is perfect for fans of Mango, Abuela, and Me. On the first day of elementary school, Abuela soothes Gloriana’s nerves by telling her stories from their family home in la República Dominicana. But as soon as Gloriana enters the classroom, the tropical scenery crumbles and la música is replaced with English phrases she does not understand. When other kids approach her to play at recess, she freezes, uncertain about how to exist between her two homes, or how to make new friends between her two languages. Abuela recognizes echoes of her own immigration journey on this challenging day at school, and she gently guides Gloriana towards newfound confidence. This beautifully painted, imaginative picture book celebrates the magic of existing in-between, and the transformative power of self-soothing to build confidence.
$24.99
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Drew Beckmeyer The First Week of School
Follow along as an ensemble cast of characters experience an extraordinary first week of school in this hilarious picture book from Caldecott Honor–winning author-illustrator Drew Beckmeyer! It’s the first day of school. An artist wonders if her drawings are good enough to show. An inventor is excited for show and tell. A group of competitive friends call themselves the Sport Kings (but nobody else does). Pat, the class pet, listens to the weird sounds humans make. The teacher is ready to start.When the new student gets to class, things take a turn for the unusual. There’s something a little strange about the visitor—maybe even something out-of-this-world.
$27.99
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James Rumford Rain School
It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road. "Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks. "Will they give us a pencil? Will I learn to read?" But when he and the other children arrive at the schoolyard, they find no classroom, no desks. Just a teacher. "We will build our school," she says. "This is our first lesson." James Rumford, who lived in Chad as a Peace Corps volunteer, fills these pages with vibrant ink-and-pastel colors of Africa and the spare words of a poet to show how important learning is in a country where only a few children are able to go to school.
$24.99
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Sharon Creech, Harry Bliss A Fine, Fine School
This funny picture book from Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech, author of Walk Two Moons, and New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss is a delight for kids, with its colorful illustrations and gentle comeuppance for a well-meaning principal who learns that learning outside of school can be just as important as being in school. Tillie goes to a fine, fine school where kids learn about dinosaurs, build pyramids, and paint portraits. When her principal decides to call all the students and teachers together for an announcement, no one could have predicted he would say that there will be school on Saturdays! Soon everyone goes to school on Sundays, holidays, and even the summer. He loves school so much that he forgets to give anyone time off!
$23.99
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Hannah Eliot, Belinda Chen I'm Your School Bus
Meet your friendly school bus in this bus-shaped board book that’s perfect for little ones going to school for the first time! I’m your school bus!I’ll drive you to schoolwhere you’ll learn and play.Isn’t that cool?Come along as your friendly school bus cruises its route—picking up pals, dropping students at school, and returning home at the end of a fun day!
$10.99
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June Sobel, Laura Huliska-Beith The Goodnight Train Ready for School
All aboard the Goodnight Train in this night-before-school companion to The Goodnight Train Halloween and The Goodnight Train Easter. Features peek-a-boo die cuts on every page! The engine chugs slow and steady. Get your brand-new backpacks ready! It's the night before the school bell rings and the Goodnight Train is pulling into the station to help young dreamers prepare. With lunchboxes packed and outfits set out, the only thing left to do is drift off to sleep. Perfect for preschool and kindergarten train enthusiasts and bedtime resisters. Read during back to school season, on first days, and throughout the school year. A sturdy board book with peek-a-boo die-cuts on every page!
$13.50
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Elizabeth Sautter Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick!
A Mom’s Choice Award winner! Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick!: Practical Activities to Help Your Child Manage Their Emotions, Navigate Social Situations, and Decrease Anxiety, Expanded and Updated, (black and white version!) has helped thousands of families manage their child’s emotions, increase positive behavior and social skills, reduce anxiety, and so much more! Does your child struggle to fit in, make friends, have social confidence, socialize, and navigate social situations? Learn how to help them become more aware, empathetic, and able to understand social and emotional skills to gain perspective and make friends. Does your child experience high levels of anxiety or BIG emotions with meltdowns that happen in the blink of an eye? Get inspired with mindful activities, coping tools, and daily calming strategies to boost your child’s emotional intelligence, regulation, and ability to pause before they react. Are you looking for the energy and patience to help your child develop these skills, but too busy managing the meltdowns, self-regulation issues, and behaviors that come from sensitivities, anxiety, ADHD, or autism? This Mom’s Choice Award–winning book offers practical ideas in a user-friendly structure with simple and fun activities that help parents do just that. Because your child learns the most from YOU! Children need ongoing exposure for greater awareness and understanding of themselves and the complex world in which they live—as well as explanations and practice throughout the day—to manage their emotions, navigate social situations, and reduce anxiety. Over 200 updated simple and easy-to-understand activities show you the teachable moments to use throughout your daily routines with your child. Getting ready for the day, preparing and eating meals together, reading time, going to the doctor, celebrating holidays, and partnering with your child’s school become opportunities for discovery and practice of expected social behavior. These social and emotional skills activities, including new mindfulness practices and a new section on bridging home and school, are invaluable for busy or overwhelmed parents. When you have the tools you need to help your child, you can both become more calm, confident, and connected. Read Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick! and help your child: Build conversation skills for better relationships Navigate transitions and boundaries, and try new things Focus on schoolwork instead of resisting or complaining Gain listening and mindfulness skills to build better friendships Identify hidden social rules that make social situations easier Learn empathy and how to see others’ perspectives instead of just their own Develop tools to build resilience and emotional regulation, decrease anxiety, and much more! Help your child thrive socially and emotionally—without either of you getting frustrated or overwhelmed!
$34.95
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Dennis Mathew My WILD First Day of School
What if animals went to school? What if they could dream, wonder and imagine a hopeful future? Into the uncertainty that is the first day of school for every child, My WILD First Day of School throws humor, spunk, rhythm and rhyme. This book is an invitation to every child to take risks, try something new, and embrace their inner "WILD."
$19.50
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Susin Nielsen, Geneviève Côté Magic Beads
It's seven-year-old Lillian's first day at a new school, and she's got butterflies in her tummy. When she learns she has to bring something for Show and Tell at the end of the week, her butterflies turn into grasshoppers. Lillian and her mother have just moved away from Lillian's abusive father and into a family shelter, leaving behind all of their possessions. Every day that Lillian anxiously watches her classmates bring toys in to share, the creatures in her stomach change and grown, until finally, she realizes that imagination can make anything magical, even an ordinary string of beads.
$12.95
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Jessica Sinarski, Zachary Kline Riley the Brave Makes It To School: A Story with Tips and Tricks for Tough Transitions
"I'm NOT going to school today!" Riley the Brave is a little bear with big feelings. Some days he wakes up feeling cheerful and ready to brave the day. He has energy to get dressed, eat breakfast and have some fun! But some days he wakes up feeling like a grumpy porcupine. His brow is scrunched and he thinks that it is going to be a terrible day. All children struggle to make it to school some days, and this can be even tougher for children who have had difficult life experiences and extra challenges at school. This book creates a safe space for conversations about big thoughts and feelings, and offers positive tips for families to try. It also features an educational afterword for grown-ups which explains how the book helps children, and how to get the most out of it.
$28.95
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Todd Parr The School Book
With his trademark bright colors and bold lines, Todd Parr introduces readers to a perennial source of childhood anxiety and excitement both: school! From morning routines to meeting new people to learning and playing together, Todd explores all the different things that can happen in school, all the while sharing a cheerful, child-friendly message of sharing, inclusion, and community. Welcome to school-- a place for everyone to grow! Ages 4-8
$24.99
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Michael Canavan, Lawrence E. Shapiro Social Skills Comics for Kids: Conversational Skills In School
Workbook with CD. Grades 7-12. These 25 comics are designed to show children the expected and unexpected ways to behave in a variety of typical school social situations. Detailed photos prompt children to take a closer look at dialog, body language, and non-verbal cues in both scenarios. Topics include: Reading body language; Using humor in conversation; Staying on topic; Accepting compliments; Asking a question; Ending a conversation, and many more!
$43.95
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Michael E. Canavan, Lawrence E. Shapiro Social Skills Comics for Kids: Handling Anxiety in School
Ages 7-12. Anxiety is a problem often associated with poor social skills. Kids may be afraid of speaking up in class, taking tests, or interacting with others in the classroom or playground. Characters in the comic strips are shown dealing with anxiety in a "Wrong Way" and then in a more appropriate way. Detailed photos prompt children to take a closer look at dialog, body language, and non-verbal cues in both scenarios. Children will learn that interacting in certain ways may help them feel less anxious in social situations. This book is also part of the Social Skills Comics for Kids Set - sold separately
$42.95
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Diane Alber Little Spot of Worry
Companion to the best-selling children's book "A Little SPOT of Anxiety" (coping strategies) this story was to created to help children learn how to control their worries (management strategies)! A little Worry SPOT helps children identifies the two different types of WORRIES. A USEFUL WORRY (a worry that can help keep you safe) and a SPINNING WORRY (an IMAGINED worry that prevents you from doing something safe and fun). If you are able to recognize the difference between the two you can prevent a SPINNING WORRY from turning into a BIG ANXIETY SPOT.
$15.50
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Jillian Roberts, Andrea Armstrong The Friendship Guide
Friendship is important-and life would be so dull without it! Friendships are essential for social-emotional learning and mental health, but sometimes children struggle with making and keeping friendships. In The Friendship Guide, child psychologist Jillian Roberts outlines central ideas on how to be the best friend you can be. Alongside each of the principles is a scenario showing how it relates to real life-at the playground, at the park, at school or on a playdate. For parents, guardians and kids themselves, it can be difficult to recognize what makes friendships work. With this book, readers will have a comforting and straightforward resource to help guide them toward a lifetime of beautiful friendships.
$21.95
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Janan Cain The Way I Feel Too
Helping children identify and express their feelings in a positive manner is important for their social-emotional learning, developing empathy, and building resilience. Feelings are neither good nor bad, they simply are. Kids need words to name their feelings, just as they need words to name all things in their world.
$25.50
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Jessica Sinarski, Zachary Kline Riley the Brave's Sensational Senses: Help for Sensory and Emotional Challenges
Riley the Brave is a little bear with big feelings. He really wants to have fun at the fair, but sometimes he struggles just making it to school, especially on the STINKY, BUMPY, NOISY bus! It is hard for Riley to focus and have fun when he is feeling so many confusing sensations! He has porcupine moments and grumps at his friends, or turtle moments when he just wants to be alone. He even had a tiger moment, roaring at his teacher. With all these big feelings, how can he ever go to the fair? Riley the Brave's Sensational Senses teaches children about their senses through a playful story with real-life strategies for emotion regulation. It also features an educational afterword for grown-ups that explains our eight senses and includes tips for getting the most out of the book.
$28.95
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Sharon Grand Executive Functioning Workbook for Kids: 40 Fun Activities to Build Memory, Flexible Thinking, and Self-Control Skills at Home, in School and Beyond
Executive functioning is the name for the skills we use to pay attention, complete tasks, and remember important things. But that's a lot for a brain to do every day-especially for kids. The Executive Functioning Workbook for Kids helps them train their brain to improve their memory, flexible thinking, and self-control. Kids will explore 40 hands-on activities to help them conquer executive functioning skills at home, at school, and out in the world.
$26.99
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Diane Alber Little Spot of Anxiety: A Story About Calming Your Worries
Anxiety comes from feelings of being worried, scared, or anxious. When these feelings are in small amounts that's okay because they are there to help protect us, but when they get TOO BIG, they become overwhelming and need to be managed. When a child experiences anxiety it can prevent them from doing what he/she wants and and/or needs to do, which can make anxiety a disability.This story addresses how anxiety can affect all ages and how it can show up in all different situations. The Gray SPOT in the story creates a visual representation of Anxiety so that a child can see when it's gets too big, and how to shrink it back to a Green PEACEFUL SPOT.
$15.50
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Self-Regulation Deck for Kids
50 Cards of CBT Exercises and Coping Strategies to Help Children Handle Anxiety, Stress, and Other Strong Emotions The 50 cards of evidence-based CBT exercises in this deck will help kids learn all about their emotions and how to better feel, deal with, and express them. The instructions on each full-color card are easy to follow for both parents and kids, and will help empower children with concrete coping skills and regulatory techniques that they can return to each and every time they start to feel upset or stressed.
$26.95
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Keith Calabrese, Juana Medina Lena's Shoes Are Nervous: A First-Day-of-School Dilemma
Today is a big day! Today, Lena starts kindergarten. She is very excited. But there's just one problem...Lena's shoes are nervous. Lena doesn't want to miss out on her first day of school, but she can't go without her favorite shoes! How can she convince them to be brave?
$26.99
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