Books

My Passover Seder

A delightful rhyming tale about the sights, sounds, and customs of a traditional Passover Seder. This engaging board book takes young readers on a journey through a typical Seder celebration, from the arrival of the first guests and the breaking of the matzah, through the sharing of the Exodus story and the Passover dinner, to the arrival of Elijah and the singing of final prayers.

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Making Sense of Your Senses

How Your Brain Perceives the World

Go beyond your senses in this playful picture book and explore the science behind how you make sense of the world around you.

In this book, you’ll discover how your body picks up clues from your environment and how your nervous system turns all those observations into messages for your brain to interpret and fill in the blanks―all at lightning speed―to form your perception. Kid-friendly text from two expert psychologists along with cheerful art provides an in-depth look at how it all comes together. You’ll see just how important your brain is to the senses! Hands-on activities encourage readers to learn more.

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Yes I Can!

A Girl and Her Wheelchair

Carolyn is in a wheelchair, but she doesn’t let that stop her! She can do almost everything the other kids can, even if sometimes she has to do it a little differently.

Includes a Note to Parents, Caregivers, and Teachers with more information on discussing disabilities with children and helping them to build positive, empathic relationships.

What to Do When It's Not Fair

A Kid's Guide to Handling Envy and Jealousy, Revised Edition

Feeling jealous or thinking “it’s not fair” is a normal part of growing up, but when these emotions start to cause distress, conflict, or frustration, children may need extra support. This engaging workbook helps kids understand envy and jealousy, why these feelings show up, and how they can learn healthier ways to cope.

What to Do When It’s Not Fair is a revised and updated edition of the best-selling workbook that guides children through proven, step-by-step strategies for managing envy and comparison. Through interactive exercises, approachable illustrations, and clear guidance, children build skills to handle disappointment, jealousy, and unfair feelings with greater confidence and perspective.

A dedicated section for parents and caregivers provides additional psychological insight and practical tools for supporting children as they practice new coping strategies at home and in everyday situations.

What to Do When Fear Interferes

A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Phobias, Revised Edition

Lots of kids feel nervous about things like spiders, heights, or loud noises. But when fear starts getting in the way of everyday fun, it’s time to take action—and this book is here to help.

This revised and updated edition is a friendly, interactive guide that helps kids understand their fears and build the confidence to face them. With engaging activities, appealing illustrations, and expert strategies, this workbook helps kids face their fears with confidence and courage.

A dedicated section for parents and caregivers offers additional insight and practical ways to support children as they practice new skills.

What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake

A Kid's Guide to Accepting Imperfection

Explorers investigate places they have never been before. These explorers might take a while to make their discoveries. They might have trouble understanding their maps. They might make wrong turns. They might need to start their expedition all over again!

If explorers could not accept their mistakes and keep going, they might never make any discoveries!

This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to cope with mistakes — so they can explore new territory without fear!

Psychology for Kids

The Science of the Mind and Behavior

Why do we sleep? What are feelings? How do we make decisions, and how do we learn from them? Psychology helps us ask and answer these and other important questions about ourselves, others, and the world around us. Accompanied by colorful illustrations of psychology’s big ideas, and lots of hands-on experiments to try at home, there’s no better way to dive into the fascinating science of the mind.

What to Do When You Feel Too Shy

A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Social Anxiety

Circus clowns perform tricks and make us laugh. Have you noticed that they seem to like people looking at them and laughing at them? Lots of kids feel shy when they think that other people notice them. But some kids get super uncomfortable being in the spotlight. And that can get in the way of having fun.

What to Do When You Feel Too Shy guides children and their parents through the emotions underlying social anxiety using strategies and techniques based on cognitive-behavioral principles. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to overcome social anxiety — so they can join in the circus of fun and friends!

Depression

A Teen's Guide to Survive and Thrive

2017 Finalist, Foreward’s INDIES Book of the Year Award

Teens want to know about what depression is, how it can derail them, and effective strategies to feel better. Full of useful information, helpful self-reflection quizzes, and easy-to-do exercises, and based firmly on cognitive-behavioral principles, this book provides an accessible, concrete plan that could make a huge difference in a teen’s life — a difference that lasts.