A Guide for Guardians

and Teachers
For Picking The Perfect
Book
To Fit Your Childs
Needs

By. Katie Harris

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Index

1. Index
2. Peer Relationship Parenting Books
a. Easing the teasing : helping your child cope with name-calling, ridicule, and verbal
bullying
b. 8 keys to raising the quirky child : how to help a kid who doesn't quite fit in
c. Losing Someone You Love: dealing with death and dying
3. Discipline Parenting Books
a. 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child
b. Positive Discipline in Preschoolers
c. Whining : 3 steps to stopping it before the tears
4. Family Relationship Parenting Books
a. Loving each one best : a caring and practical approach to raising siblings
b. Is that me yelling? : a parent's guide to getting your kids to cooperate without losing
your cool
5. Knowing Your Children Parenting Books
a. Your anxious child : how parents and teachers can relieve anxiety in children
b. The unhappy child : what every parent needs to know
6. Books about Feelings for Kids
a. Sophie gets Angry-Really, Really Angry
b. Today I Feel Silly; And Other Moods that Make my Day
7. Peer Relationship Books for Kids
a. Little Dog Big Dog
b. Pirates and Princesses
c. Enemy Pie
8. Becoming A Good Person Children Books
a. Hands Are Not for Hitting
b. Sharing Time
c. Have You Filled a Bucket Today?: A Guide to Daily Happiness For Kids
9. Family Books for Kids
a. Mama do you love me?
b. Who's in the Family?

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Peer Relationship Parenting Books
Easing the teasing : helping your child cope with name-calling, ridicule, and
verbal bullying
Freedman, Judy S
Contemporary Books (Chicago)
2002
Integration Ideas: This book could be easily integrated into a classroom to help teachers find the right
techniques to stop bullying. This could also be used to teach the kids not to bully and show the effects of
bullying on their peers, and show kids exactly what bullying is.
Brief Description: This book helps children and parents deal with bullying and how to face bullying in the
classroom setting. It also provides strategies and practices to help minimize bullying and helping to cope
with teasing. This book also provides good techniques for children to ask adults for help.

8 keys to raising the quirky child : how to help a kid who doesn't quite fit in
Bowers, Mark
Norton & Company (New York)
2015
Integration Ideas: This book can be integrated by the teacher to understand how to help children in the
classroom fit in. It can also be a learning tool when teaching children that not everyone is alike and we are
all different.
Brief Description: This book helps children and parents understand and integrate quirky/unique children
into social situations. It covers strategies for parents and caregivers to get along and help teach unique
children and understand what is developmentally appropriate for certain ages. It also helps give signs for
when some children might be autistic or have any other type of learning disability.

Losing Someone You Love: dealing with death and dying

Phillips, Tracy
Enslow Publishers (Berkeley Heights NJ)
2009
Integration Ideas: Integration in the classroom can be very easy if the class has a pet that dies, or a child is
going through death in their family. This book provides helpful tips for teachers to help the children and
help the parents with helpful tips about dealing with death and how to overcome. It also can help teachers
with understanding the psychology of death with children.
Brief Description: This book is a helpful tool for personal dealing with death with parents and dealing
with teenage and child grief. This text covers deaths from parents to pets and provides information that
can help heal and deal with any grieving process. This text also provides how to support and help other
people that are dealing with death or grief and how to help them heal and move on.

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Discipline Parenting Books
10 Days to a Less Defiant Child
Bernstein, Jeffrey
Marlowe & Co. (New York)
2006
Integration Ideas: You could integrate this book into the classroom when teaching children rules and
regulations and using techniques from the book so that the children in the classroom aren't defiant. You
could also use this book to discuss how to control anger when the kids get mad.
Brief Description: This book is a 10 day system for parents and teachers to help kids overcome negativity,
defiance, and resistance. It focuses on finding the source of the defiance and then discussing techniques to
help stop the defiance in the school or home and keep this good behavior for years to come. It also
follows the effects of defiance to families and peers.

Positive Discipline in Preschoolers

Nelsen, Jane
Prima Pub (Rocklin, CA)
1998
Integration Ideas: Integration for this book is very easy in the classroom. This book could be a way for the
teacher to further deepen her understanding on how to deal with power struggles and deal with fights in
the classroom. This could also be used on a guide to set up parent teacher meetings and how to talk to
parents about misbehaving child.
Brief Description: This book dives deeper into the dos and don'ts of discipline in preschool age children,
and answers the tough questions about discipline and what is appropriate and not appropriate. It also
tackles how to raise and teach children how to be respectful to adults and peers.

Whining : 3 steps to stopping it before the tears and tantrums start

Ricker, Audrey
Simon & Schuster (New York)
2000
Integration Ideas: This can be integrated into the classroom by teachers learning how to deal with whining
in the classroom and getting it to stop and not spread to other children. This can also be integrated by
teaching children how to show feelings in other ways than just whining.
Brief Description: This book is a parent's guide to stop whining or any form of tantrums before they start.
This book covers techniques on how to stop whining in all different types of situations and what the
children are trying to say when they are whining about something. It also describes techniques on how to
communicate with your child on why whining is not good.

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Family Relationship Parenting Books
Loving each one best : a caring and practical approach to raising siblings
Samalin, Nancy
Bantam Books (New York)
1996
Integration Ideas: This book is easily integrated into the classroom when teaching children about siblings
and how to act towards them. This can also be integrated into the classroom when teaching parents how to
deal with sibling rivalry and other sibling related problems
Brief Description: This book highlights how to let parents and children deal with new children in the
family and the joys and problems that comes with it. It touches on perpetual squabbling, sibling rivalry,
complaints of unfairness between siblings and how parents should handle those issues.

Is that me yelling? : a parent's guide to getting your kids to cooperate without

losing your cool
Renner, Rona
New Harbinger Publications, Inc. (Oakland CA)
2014
Integration Ideas: This book can be used in the classroom by using the temperament tips on how to
communicate with children to get them to do simple tasks. These communication skills also discussed in
the book can help a child with doing homework or an in class assignment. It also can be used in the
classroom to make the teacher a better fit for certain children.
Brief Description: This books helps parents and caregivers identify a child's unique temperament and how
to use that when trying to get a child to cooperate and learn. It also tells how to keep the peace in a family
and how to help children learn respect parents and authority figures. This book also identifies what the
parents temperament is and how that coincides with a child to create a peaceful relationship.

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Knowing Your Children Parenting Books
Your anxious child : how parents and teachers can relieve anxiety in children
Dacey, John S.
Jossey-Bass (San Francisco)
2000
Integration Ideas: Interaction is very easy in the classroom. This book gives teachers a great resource to
make children feel comfortable in the classroom and help them deal with their anxieties. It is also a great
resource for teachers to look for cues that are in anxiety filled children
Brief Description: This book is filled chock full with tips and tricks to help deal with anxiety filled
children. It gives step by step instructions to help sooth all kinds of different types of anxiety. Lastly it
provides fun activities to help alleviate stress and help the child feel trusted and loved.

The unhappy child : what every parent needs to know

Condrell, Kenneth N.
Prometheus Books (Amherst NY)
2006
Integration Ideas: Teachers can integrate this book in many different ways. Teachers can discuss to
children what to do if they are unhappy and how to cope with it. Teachers can also figure out the cues for
when children are unhappy or something is going on at home. Lastly teachers can use this book to help
solve any unhappiness that children might have with this book's simple tips.
Brief Description: This book is a guide to parents and teachers on how to deal with a child who is
unhappy or dealing with depression. It has solutions to any unhappiness that a child may be having. This
book also has professional research that shows what makes a child unhappy and to look for warning signs
that a child is very unhappy

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Books about Feelings for Kids
When Sophie gets Angry- Really, Really Angry
Bang, Molly
Blue Sky Press (NY)
2004
Integration Ideas: Integration in the classroom can be used when talking about using emotions and
keeping emotions calm, one could use this book to spark many other activities about controlling emotions
and doing some roleplaying so children understand how to respond in certain instances where controlling
emotions might be difficult
Age Range: 4-8
Brief Description: This book is a child friendly story that involves a little girl named sophie who has
gotten her stuffed gorilla taken away from her by her sister, and is so angry that she runs away from home
and thinks about her actions. And soon goes back to her family and apologizes.

Today I Feel Silly; And Other Moods that Make my Day

Curtis, L. Jamie
Joanna Cotler Books
2007
Integration Ideas: This book could be integrated into the classroom by teaching children that feeling silly,
lonely, etc. is not something to be ashamed of and it is something that everyone goes through. It also
could be integrated through getting to know each other activites between the class that describe what
different people do when they are silly, lonely, etc.
Age Range: 4-8
Brief Description: This children's book describes a little girl going through 13 different emotions on 13
different days. It tells the story of what she does when she gets certain feelings, and how havings those
emotions makes them feel.

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Peer Relationship Books for Children
Enemy Pie
Munson, Derek
Chronicle Books
2000
Integration Ideas: This could be integrated into the classroom when there is trouble between one or more
students and it could teach the students that having enemies is counterproductive and that getting to know
each other is the best option. This also could be used in the classroom to learn about how hurtful saying
that someone is your enemy is.
Age Range: 5-8
Brief Description: This book is about when a new kid moves into town he starts to become enemies with
the person who is narrating the book, with all of this controversy at hand the narrators dad decides that
the best thing to do is for the boys to get to know each other. So the dad creates a fun way to finally get
the boys to come together to make an enemy pie.
Little Dog Big Dog
Eastman, P.D.
Random House Books for Young Readers
2003
Integration Ideas: This can be used to tie into how we are all different and help children understand that
even the children around them are different but that doesn't mean that they are any worse than you. The
teacher can create an activity that focuses on all of the children's differences and how they are good and
how they can all still be friends with each other
Age Range: 3-7
Brief Description: This book is a cute story about a little dog and a big dog who are both really different
from each other but still are friends. It tells the story about how this big dog and this little dog put away
their differences to become even better friends and create a tone of acceptance for all different types of
people.

Pirates and Princesses

Kargman, Jill
Integration Ideas: This book can be used at the beginning of the school year when getting to know
everyone in the class, a teacher could present this book to the children to show them that you don't have to
play with just like genders, and that boys and girls aren't really different.
Age Range: 3-5
Brief Description: This book is about a girl and a boy (Ivy and Fletch) that have been friends forever, but
when they both go into a new school they learn that boys and girls are not usually friends. With social
norms against them Ivy and Fletch try to get rid of the segregation on the playground.

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How To Be A Good Person Children Books
Sharing Time
Verdick, Elizabeth
Free Spirit Publishing
2009
Integration Ideas: This book could be easily integrated into a classroom when trying to teach children how
to share their toys with their peers. It could be accompanied by a number of role playing activities that
involve the children sharing their toys to ultimately help teach the kids how to share.
Age Range: 2-3
Brief Description: This book is a great way to help children learn what to do when sharing. It offers
colorful pictures and helpful suggestions to young children about how to share and what is the best time
for sharing. And helps the child get through any times that it may be difficult to share.

Have You Filled A Bucket Today?: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids
McCloud, Carol
Bucket Fillers
2015
Integration Ideas: Integration of this book could be used when having trouble with bullying or maybe
negative children in the classroom, activities like role playing and making kindness buckets can
ultimately help children learn how to be kinder and stop dipping into other people's buckets.
Age Range: 4-8
Brief Description: This fun filled tale discusses the concept of kindness buckets into a fun book form. It
creates a good metaphor for children that helps them understand about being nice/ being mean to other
people and how it affects them. It talks about how everyone has a bucket and when you hurt someone's
feelings it dips out of their kindness bucket.

Hands Are Not for Hitting

Martine, Agassi
Free Spirit Publishing (Minneapolis, MN)
2009
Integration Ideas: Integration for this book is really simple, this book gives key things to do while reading
a book like shaking hands, so children would participate in that while reading the book, it could also be
tied into social studies when talking about all different types of hands (of different races). Integration in
this book could also seen by informing the child how the other person feels in a situation where a child
were to hit another child.
Age Range: 4-7
Brief Description: Hands are not for hitting is a easy, fun to read book for kids that gives the children
something to think about when hitting someone. It shows all the differnt thing that hands can do and all of
the different hands in the world, and shows that hands are not for hitting and can be used for so much
more that violence.

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Family Books for Children
Mama do you love me?
Joosse, Barbara M.
Chronicle Books
1998
Integration Ideas: Classroom activities that you could use for this book is a teaching activity about how
much a guardian loves a child. These types of role play activities can help children understand that their
parents/ guardians are always there for them. It also helps children create a sense of trust in guardians.
Age Range: 2-4
Brief Description: This book covers a small girl trying to test the limits of her mom's love by having a
childish banter of how much her mom loves her and is trying to see how much her mom really loves her.
Through this fun banter her mom teaches her that she will love her no matter what.

Who's in a Family?
Skutch, Robert
Tricycle Press (Berkeley, CA)
1997
Integration Ideas: This book could be integrated into the classroom when talking about childrens families
and what goes into them. This could easily paired with an activity where children show what makes their
family's special. This book could also be integrated when talking about equality between other people's
families, and showing that other people's families are not better than the child's.
Age Range: 3-7
Brief Description: This book tells about different kinds of families and compares them to different animal
groups in the animal kingdom. It touches all different kinds of families varying in anything from race, to
who is in the family. With all of this in mind this book ends off with teaching that no matter what your
family looks like and who is in it all that matters is they love you.

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