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Reading Well for Children

Reading well for children

Reading Well for children provides quality-assured information, stories and advice to support children’s mental health and wellbeing. Books have been chosen and recommended by leading health professionals and co-produced with children and families.

The booklist is targeted at children in Key Stage 2 (aged 7-11), but includes titles aimed at a wide range of reading levels to support less confident readers, and to encourage children to read together with their siblings and carers.

Healthy Minds

Selection of books to help with healthy minds

How Not to Lose It: Mental Health Sorted

by Anna Williamson

Healthy for life: Self-esteem and mental health

by Anna Claybourne

What's Going on Inside my Head?

by Molly Potter

Feelings

Selection of books to help with feelings

How Are You Feeling Today?

by Molly Potter

Mindful Me: Exploring Emotions

by Paul Christeli

Sometimes I Feel Sad

by Tom Alexander

Feeling Angry!

by Katie Douglass

Worries

Selection of books to help with worries

Questions and Feelings About: Worries

by Paul Christelis

Grobblechops

by Elizabeth Laird

All Birds Have Anxiety

by Kathy Hoopmann

Outsmarting Worry

by Dawn Huebner

Ruby's Worry

by Tom Perciva

Me and My Fear

by Franchesca Sanna

Worry Angels

by Sita Brahmachari

The World Around You

At School

Selection of books to help with issues that might arise at school

Dealing With Bullying

by Jane Lacey

Ella On the Outside

by Cath Howe

Accidental Trouble Magnet: (Planet Omar)

by Zanib Mian

The Illustrated Guide to Dyslexia and It's Amazing People

by Kate Power and Kathy Iwanczak Forsyth

Online

Selection of books to help with issues that might arise online

#Goldilocks

by Jeanne Willis

In the news

Selection of books to help with issues that might arise in the news

Something Bad Happened

by Dawn Huebner

Dealing with tough times

When someone dies

Selection of books to help when someone dies

Mum's Jumper

by Jayde Perkin

Michael Rosen's Sad Book

by Michael Rosen

Clownfish

by Alan Durant

If All the World Were

by Joseph Coelho

Getting through a tough time

The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself

by Ali Redford

Tough times at home

Up and Down Mum

by Summer Macon

The Colour Thief; A family's story of depression

by Andrew Fusek Peters & Polly Peters

Living well with a condition

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Check Mates

by Stewart Foster

Can I tell you about ADHD?

by Susan Yarney

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

Questions and Feelings About: Autism

by Louise Spilsbury

M is for Autism

by The Students of Limpsfield Grange School and Vicky Martin

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Double Felix

by Sally Harris

Having a Disability

Questions and Feelings About: Having a disability

by Louise Spilsbury

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