What better way to spread happiness and love to our children this holiday season than through a positive, inspiring book. We have reviewed some spectacular children’s books on various topics from our happiness toolkit. Each of these books would make a great gift for your child. They are grouped by topic, and I have included a brief summary and link to the more in-depth review. Happy reading!
Emotions
The Little Book of Character Strengths by June Rousso cleverly presents character strengths as a beautiful poem with colorful images that both you and your children will enjoy reading together.
We All Live On This Planet Together by June Rousso is a touching children’s book that will help teach your kids how to overcome their fears using many of the themes from the Happy Science Mom toolkit, including optimism, self-love, gratitude, and spending time in nature.
Fitness
The Busy Body Book: A Kid’s Guide to Fitness
Goals
Gratitude
My Grateful Book by Diana Smith beautiful children’s book that highlights a number of the little things in life that we can be thankful for, such as the food on our plate, rainbows, animals in the ocean, playing on the beach, learning at school, and our home.
Kindness
It’s Alright To Be Different by Benedict Coulter is an adorable and meaningful book for children of all ages that addresses being bullied for being different.
My Welcome Book by Diana Smith is a cheerful book with messages filled with hope and love that will bring joy to you and your children.
There Is Nothing Like Sharing by Benedict Coulter will show you what sharing has to do with raising happy, balanced kids.
Wee Walk in Someone Else’s Shoes by Amy Geile and Kristen Littell is a story about young students who learn that they have the power to make a difference in the world.
Mindfulness
Excellent book suggestions! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Great list. We go on many bear hunts at our place. I’d recommend The Thankful Book too. It was a good first step to growing a gratitude practice in our family. I am going to have to check the others out.
Thanks for sharing.
This is a really fantastic list! I was trying to pick a favorite, but I can’t. Pinning these for later!
Thanks for the great list! Always looking for quality books to add to our collection. LOVE Todd Parr’s books!
We recently bought “I Am Yoga” and love it. Great intro to yoga/mindfulness!
I am a teacher and I think I should look into getting some of these books! Thank you for sharing x
I LOVE this book list. I’m going to try and get them over here in the UK.
Thanks for sharing.
Great list! I’m def going to add a few of these on our next trip to the book store!