Juvenile Nonfiction, Social Topics, Emotions & Feelings
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What Is Your Story?
Let’s talk about adoption and kinship by Lynn Deiulis
What is Your Story? is an engaging, colourful book that gives children permission to discover their unique journey of adoption or kinship. The book’s goal is to normalize the questions children have, while at the same time normalizing the need to...
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Safe at Home
by Tania M. Crook
Safe at Home is a children’s book all about the pandemic and the challenges faced by children of all ages. Using simple words and phrases, this inclusive story explores one child’s experience of being safe at home, rather than stuck at home....
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But Why
A Virus Story About Feelings by Cassie St Amand
Everything has changed overnight, and Rabbit has a lot of BIG emotions to understand. There’s a virus spreading all around the world, and Rabbit wants to know why. By asking questions of Mom, Rabbit uncovers something magical and powerful: all...
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Dear Jack
A Letter From A Special Needs Child To Her Sibling by Julie Leavitt Wolfe
"Dear Jack" is a story told through the eyes of Holly, a young girl with special needs. Holly wants to tell her older brother Jack how sorry she is that their mom couldn't be there for him at certain events, like at his hockey games because the...
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Chin Up
by Naomi Firestone
For sadness is normal, it comes and it goes. Just like the ocean, it ebbs and it flows. Some days, you can’t stop from crying. Maybe you even want to disappear. We often feel embarrassed when someone notices us feeling sad. We might even put on a...
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Teddy Bear's Birthday Bash
by Courtney Taylor
One morning, the YUMMY scent of birthday cake wakes all the bear cubs in the forest. The cubs excitedly begin dancing arm in arm in anticipation of a big birthday party. However, the dancing abruptly stops when one little bear cub realizes he may...
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I am Just Like You
by Kelly Scrivener
This cheerful, positive story tells us of a little girl named Emily who appears to be different. But is she? Or, is Emily just like you? The story encourages preschool and primary aged children to see others in a different light. Through easy to...
