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Emotions and Social Skills

Social skills begin by identifying feelings. This list will help your child learn about their feelings and the feelings of others.

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  • There's a new crane on the construction site! His name is Lefty and he's the opposite of Cranky -- smiley, talkative, and a jokester. Everything Lefty does makes Cranky feel extra cranky. But everyone else seems to love him. What if Cranky's friends…
    Picture Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2025. — JP Tran
  • Peppa and her friends have some big feelings to explore! Follow Peppa and her friends through experiences that make them cross or sad, scared or shy, and begin to talk about these emotions, too.
    Picture Book, 2024New York : Scholastic Inc., 2024. — JP Froeb
  • A young girl goes to all the places her brother Cody and his ex used to go in an attempt to collect the pieces of Cody's broken heart, as she learns how to support a loved one.
    Picture Book, 2024New York : Rocky Pond, 2024. — JP Chan
  • The Color Monster uses his emotions toolkit to help the reader learn to regulate emotions through many different self-soothing, therapeutic techniques.
    Picture Book, 2024New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — JP Llena
  • Welcome to the Grand Hotel of Feelings, where all kinds of feelings come and stay. Some feelings are big and some are small, some are fun and some are tricky, but no feeling is ever turned away. At the Grand Hotel of Feelings, there is room for…
    Picture Book, 2023London : Cicada Books, 2023. — JP Brank
  • All feelings are OK, but sometimes our feelings don't make us feel good. In this reassuring book, kids and grownups will learn soothing and fun practices to try when they're looking for that curiously calm feeling.
    Picture Book, 2023New York, NY : Clarion Books, 2023. — PAR JP Huebn
  • A beautifully illustrated story with a gentle and encouraging message to help children deal with their worries.
    Picture Book, 2023London : Macmillan Children's Books, 2023. — JP Rayne
  • This laugh-out-loud picture book follows best friends Frank and Bert as they play hide-and-seek, but when Bert isn't so good at hiding (despite thinking he is), Frank must decide between winning or making Bert happy.
    Picture Book, 2023Lincoln, MA : Nosy Crow, 2023, c2022. — JP Naylo
  • This book uses vivid picture scenes to describe a child's inner feelings during stressful (although not always bad) situations. Dragons roar, storms crash, and bats stare as different situations are resolved (or diminished) through small acts of…
    Picture Book, 2022Minneapolis, MN : Free Spirit Publishing, 2022. — JP Coulm
  • A young child tells us what makes her angry and how she tries to let the anger come and go.
    Picture Book, 2022Toronto : Groundwood Books, 2022. — JP Feder
  • Annie comes home from school to find her cat, Delilah, has had a terrible day and is quite sad. What do you do when your friend is sad? Cheer them up with all the things they love! Annie tries TV, warm milk, and even yoga! But at the end of the day,…
    Picture Book, 2022New York : Feiwel & Friends, 2022. — JP Smith
  • Tilda withdraws when her world turns upside down, but, after watching a ladybug struggle and then fly free, she decides to move forward and embrace the changes.
    Picture Book, 2022New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2022, c2021. — JP Perci
  • Wouldn't the world be a better place if everyone knew how to apologize? Luckily, this humorous guidebook is full of practical tips about when, why, and how to say you're sorry. From a porcupine who accidentally popped his friend's balloon to a snail…
    Picture Book, 2021Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2021. — JP LaRoc
  • A group of kids express a multitude of feelings and discover they are not alone.
    Picture Book, 2021New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. — JP Penfo
  • In rhyming text, naughty dinosaurs learn the importance of having good manners, saying "please" and "thank you," and never, ever making a mess.
    Picture Book, 2020New York : Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc., 2020. — JP Yolen
  • Ira Crumb and Malcolm Cake are best friends. But a disagreement about whether they should play tag or hide-and-seek leaves Ira all alone. And suddenly, he starts feeling these feelings! His tummy hurts! His chin is wibbling! His eyes are leaking!…
    Picture Book, 2018Toronto, ON : Owlkids Books, 2018. — JP Hrab
  • Happy, hopeful, lonely, sad, excited , anxious, guilty, mad. The galaxy is an emotional place. Feelings are still felt way out there in space. You are not alone, so don't be blue. Just search your feelings. You know it to be true!
    Picture Book, 2018Los Angeles : Disney/Lucasfilm Press, 2018. — JP Gla
  • A field guide to the fierce but adorable grumpasaurus, found in every home where there are small children.
    Picture Book, 2016Boston : Clarion Books, 2016. — JP Hemin