A gentle picture book that validates sadness and shows familiar sources of comfort, from listening to music and doing an enjoyable activity to seeking a hug from someone who cares.
From the Learning Can Be Fun Resilience Range, this illustrated book gives children and adults a calm way to talk about sadness. It is well suited to shared reading, with simple prompts for discussing comfort, connection and the people a child can turn to.
Create a gentle feelings toolkit
A familiar reading format helps children build emotional vocabulary across happy, kind, angry, anxious, sad and wronged. Choose another feeling to explore now, or collect the range for conversations as new situations arise.
Build a balanced setPair a positive-emotion title with a book about a harder feeling, giving children language for both everyday joys and tricky moments.
Build the range at your own pace. Keep several titles within reach so children can choose the book that best matches how they feel that day.
