About Our Book Lists
These book lists were compiled and recommended by the Board of Directors. We hope you see some of your favorites and discover new ones. Some titles are out of print, but not out of style! They are listed at the bottom of each page and are definitely worth a trip to your local used bookstore or library.
We have organized our book list recommendations in three sections:
- Books for Professionals
- Books for Parents and Caregivers
- Books for Children
For your convenience all of our links are direct to Amazon.
A list of suggested books for children
Story time is a wonderful opportunity to build connection between adult and child. Sharing stories, books, and songs all help to build healthy early relationships and strengthen language and literacy skills. Books can also be a wonderful resource for helping children understand and work through their emotions and new or difficult situations. When children read books about people who are different than them, they learn empathy, which in turn leads to healthier relationships over their lifetime. This list of books was compiled and recommended by the Board of Directors. We hope you see some of your favorites and discover new ones. Some titles are out of print, but not out of style! They are listed at the bottom of the page and are definitely worth a trip to your local used bookstore or library.
A Family For Sammy
by Kate Gaynor
A Good Day
by Kevin Henkes
A Terrible Thing Happened
by Margaret M. Holmes and Sasha J. Mudloff.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad day
by Judith Viorst
Baby on the Way
by Sears, Sears and Kelly
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
by Mo Willems
Families Change, A Book For Children Experiencing Termination of Parental Rights
by Julie Nelson
Feast for Ten
by Cathryn Falwell
Feelings
by Aliki
Go Away, Big Green Monster
by Ed Emberley
Hands are not for Hitting
by Elizabeth Verdickem
Happy Hippo, Angry Duck
by Sandra Boynton
Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild!
by Mem Fox
Hello Baby
by Lizzy Rockwell
I Miss You: A First Look at Death
by Pat Thomas
I Used to Be the Baby
by Robin Ballard
I’ll Always Love You
by Hans Wilhelm
Ish (Creatrilogy)
by Peter H. Reynolds
Little Bird
by Germano Zullo
Llama Llama Mad at Mama
by Anna Dewdney
Llama Llama Red Pajama
by Anna Dewdney
Mouse was Mad
by Linda Urban
Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs
by Tomie de Paola
No, David
by David Shannon
Now One Foot, Now The Other
by Tomie de Paola
Olive’s Ocean
by Kevin Henkes
On the Night You Were Born
by Nancy Tillman
Owen
by Kevin Henkes
Please Tell: A Child’s Story About Sexual Abuse
by Jessie
Please, Baby, Please
by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Less
Press Here
by Herve Tullet
Sometimes I’m Bombaloo
by Rachel Vail
Teeth are not for Biting
by Elizabeth Verdickem
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
by Leo Buscaglia
The Giving Tree
by Shel Silverstein
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
by Judith Viorst
There’s a Nightmare in My Closet
by Mercer Mayer
Welcoming Babies
by Margy Burns Knight
Wemberly Worried
by Kevin Henkes
What James Said
by Liz Rosenberg and Matthew Myers
What’s Wrong, Little Pookie?
by Sandra Boynton
When Sophie Gets Angry……Really Really Angry
by Molly Bang
Why Am I Here?
by Matthew Kelly
**Out of print titles available through other vendors on Amazon
**Baby’s ABC
by Neil Ricklen
**Porky and Bess
by Ellen Weiss
**Saying Goodbye to Daddy
by Judith Vigna
**When I Wished I Was Alone
by Dave Cutler
**Where is Grandpa
by T. A. Barron
