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Social Emotional Learning Collection

Magination Press, APA's children's book imprint, has teamed up with Reading Is Fundamental (RIF)opens in new window to highlight a Magination Press collection featuring a range of free resources, including puzzles and word games, designed to enhance both literacy skills and socioemotional engagement of young readers.

Browse our Magination Press Social Emotional Learning Collectionopens in new window, get inspired by the collection's Social Emotional Learning Calendaropens in new window, and explore the free resources created by RIF and APA to engage young readers and assist their caregivers.

Pre-K–3 (Ages 4–8)

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Abracadabra!

This clever book teaches children how to face challenges and keep trying, despite setbacks, as a group of birds learn to fly.
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Baxter and Danny Stand Up to Bullying

When Baxter, Danny, and the rest of the forest animals are picked on by Buford Blue Jay, they have to figure out what to do.
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Baxter Turns Down His Buzz

This is the story of a high-energy rabbit, Baxter, who must learn to control his activity level and impulsiveness.
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Bee Still

One day, when the other bees rush out to make honey, Bentley decides to meditate first. 
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Big Brave Bold Sergio

Swimming with The Snappers makes Sergio feel Big, Brave, and Bold, but he soon notices how the other animals are afraid of them.
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Big Red and the Little Bitty Wolf

This book is a modern twist on the classic tale, in which a little wolf's unexpected solution to the class bully is met with surprising success.
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A Box of Butterflies

Ruby teaches her Robot, who doesn't know what emotions are, what each feels like and when she feels them. 
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Breathe

This introduction to mindfulness presents a collection of illustrated exercises to help little ones become aware of their breath and their body.
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Bye Bye Pesky Fly

Pig is having a good, happy day—until he's bothered by a Pesky Fly—so they work through their problem together as friends.
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Chicken or Egg

Chicken and Egg are best friends who love playing together but don't like losing.
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Cinderstella

Cinderstella has plans for her own happily ever after. A future princess she is not. Her calculations and equations are simple enough, she'd rather be an astronaut!
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Danny and the Blue Cloud

Danny the bear was born under a blue cloud that makes him feel unhappy and lose interest in playing with his friends.
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Emily Grace and the What-Ifs

This book is a guide to showing children how to face their fears and self-soothe.
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A Feel Better Book for Little Tempers

A Feel Better Book for Little Tempers assures little kids that anger is normal and helps them to identify and manager their anger.
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A Feel Better Book for Little Worriers

The rhyming narration helps little kids to identify a worry and provides them with helpful tools to reduce and cope with worries.
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Grow Happy

Grow Happy helps kids understand that they play an important role in cultivating their own happiness using resources at their disposal.
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Hector's Favorite Place

Hector loves his home so much that he doesn't often go out, and it starts to affect his friendships
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Jacqueline and the Beanstalk

When Jacqueline climbs the beanstalk, she meets a giant who is just as afraid of her knights as they are of the giant. 
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Joey Daring Caring and Curious

This book is about normal misbehavior, sibling/family dynamics, and importantly, unconditional love.
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King Calm

Readers are introduced to the concept of living mindfully in a creative and practical way.
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Line and Dot

Line and Dot create bold, new things by including a diverse group of friends—and they find that creating together is even more fun.
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Little Worlds

This book shows a diverse group of children in their own self-constructed little worlds as they explore and play freely, develop their own identities, and learn to understand others.
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Lucy in the City

A young raccoon who gets separated from her family one night and has to find her way home.
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Mapping My Day

Follow Flora and her zany family as she takes us through her day with a series of vibrant and interactive maps.
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Marvelous Maravilloso

Marvelous Maravilloso follows a young girl as she finds joy in the colors of the world all around her, including those of her interracial family.
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Mom's Busy Days

Maggie and Ethan's mom has a busy schedule, but she slows time down with a tickle fight and other family activities.
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Move Your Mood!

With playful rhymes and whimsical illustrations, Move Your Mood! encourages kids to twist, wiggle, hop, and shake their way into a better mood.
Murphy's Three Homes

Murphy's Three Homes

This book follows Murphy, a Tibetan Terrier puppy, through his placement in three new homes, as well as through his anxiety, self-doubt, and hope for a new, loving family.
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Ouch Moments

Explains "ouch moments" in kid-friendly terms, offers practical strategies for what kids can do to help, and empowers kids to stand up to mean and hurtful language.
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Priscilla Pack Rat

Priscilla learns that searching for happiness through the accumulation of "stuff" leads to disappointment and loneliness. 
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So Many Smarts!

This book introduces kids and parents to a variety of "smarts" and encourages readers to look at their own combination of brain power, skills, abilities, and capabilities and to determine how they might learn best, excel, and be themselves.
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Something Happened In Our Town

Following a police shooting, two families — one White and one Black — discuss the event, its aftermath, and what they can do to help.
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There's a Cat in Our Class!

A kid-friendly exploration of diversity that teaches children the value of not only accepting but embracing the differences of others. 
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Visiting Feelings

Visiting Feelings invites children to sense, explore, and befriend any feeling with acceptance and equanimity. Includes a "Note to Parents."
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A World of Pausabilities

Following a neighborhood on a summer day, readers will learn how to apply mindfulness to simple, everyday moments.
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Yes I Can!

First-grader Carolyn is in a wheelchair, but can do almost everything the other kids can, even if sometimes she has to do it a little differently. 

Grades 3–6 (Ages 8–12)

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Dream It!

Dream It! is chock full of activities, games, and brainstorming questions to help kids discover their passions, goals and dreams.
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How Do You Doodle?

A drawing book for kids to help them get in touch with and learn to express their emotions.
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Shield Up!

This book is a literary graphic novel for middle grade kids that help students understand bullying behaviors from all perspectives - that of the victim, the bully, and the bystanders.

Grades 7–12 (Ages 12–18)

My Anxious Mind: A Teen's Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic

My Anxious Mind

My Anxious Mind helps teens take control of their anxious feelings by providing cognitive behavioral strategies to tackle anxiety head-on.
Date created: 2018

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