Mental Health

Books & Accompanying Learning Resources

Everybelly

From acclaimed picture-book artist Thao Lam comes a joyful celebration of an oft-maligned body part — the belly!

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies, Make Predictions, Oral Language, Integrated Learning

Topics: Diversity, Mental Health

Audience: ages 3 to 6 / grades K to 1

The One and Only Question

It's Zeke's first day at his new school and his head is filled with one big question: what will he do when they call him the N-word like they did at his old school?

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies

Topics: Black Voices, Bullying, Diversity, Mental Health, Prejudice & Racism, Self-Esteem

Audience: ages 4 to 8 / grades K to 3

Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox

Children's love for animals and disguise come together in this award-winning introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Comprehension Strategies, Integrated Learning, Key Ideas & Details, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Developing & Creating Texts, Further Research

Topics: Indigenous Voices, Mental Health

Audience: ages 4 to 7 / Grades K to 2

Sometimes I Feel Like a River

Following the huge success of Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox, this companion book is a lyrical celebration of our relationship to the natural world.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Just for Fun!

Topics: Environment & Climate Change, Indigenous Voices, Mental Health

Audience: ages 3 and up / grades P and up

Looks Like Daylight

Author Deborah Ellis travels across the continent, interviewing more than forty Native American kids and letting them tell their own stories.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Integrated Learning, Developing & Creating Texts, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Further Research

Topics: Diversity, Indigenous Voices, Mental Health, Prejudice & Racism

Audience: ages 12 and up / grades 7 and up