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Books & Accompanying Learning Resources

Imagination and fiction meet mental health and social-emotional development in this collection of books and related learning resources. Designed to spark conversations around emotional awareness and regulation, these activities and resources will make young readers feel less alone and encourage them to approach others with empathy and understanding.

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

My Name is Seepeetza

An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it.

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

Topics: Diversity, Human Rights & Activism, Indigenous Voices, Mental Health, Prejudice & Racism, Stories of Resilience

Audience: ages 9 to 12 / grades 4 to 7

Clear Skies

As the US/Soviet Space Race heats up in 1961, eleven-year-old Arno finds his dreams of becoming an astronomer exploding like an extragalactic supernova.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Integrated Learning, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Comprehension Strategies, Oral Language

Topics: Mental Health

Audience: ages 8 to 11 / grades 3 to 6