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Picture Books Library < Positive Qualities
Picture books about Positive Qualities from the Little Parachutes reviews library

Books that promote positive qualities such as kindness, resilience, courage, confidence and gratitude.

Acceptance & Inclusion

Acceptance & Inclusion

A collection of picture books that encourage children to be accepting and welcoming to all.

Confidence & Self-esteem

Confidence & Self-esteem

A collection of picture books that champion confidence and self-esteem, encouraging children to appreciate their own self-worth and positively appraise their own appearance, emotions, beliefs and behaviours.

Courage

Courage

These children’s picture books contain characters who have shown courage, or contain messages that encourage children to be brave.

Curiosity & Creativity

Curiosity & Creativity

Picture books that will foster children's natural curiosity and creativity, encouraging them to ask questions, discover and appreciate the new, and inspire them to create and develop their own ideas.

Gratitude

Gratitude

Picture books that encourage children to show gratitude and appreciate what they have. Scientific studies have shown that people with a strong sense of gratitude have better physical and psychological health, higher self-esteem and are able to empathise with others.

Kindness

Kindness

These children's picture books contain characters which show kindness, or contain messages that encourage children to be kind to others.

Resilience / adaptability

Resilience / adaptability

Picture books that show resilient characters, or encourage children to recover from difficulty or change.

 

Mole’s Sunrise

Mole's Sunrise

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Disabilities, Kindness
Tags: blindness, friends

Topsy and Tim: Make a New Friend

Topsy and Tim: Make a New FriendEducates young children on common aspects of physical disability and encourages tolerance and acceptance.

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Being Different & Being Yourself, Disabilities
Tags: friends, wheelchair

Billy Back To Front

Billy Back To FrontA good story to enable children to appreciate and value being different and to recognise their own individuality

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Being Different & Being Yourself, Confidence & Self-esteem
Tags: confidence

Hey! What’s That Nasty Whiff?

Hey! What's That Nasty Whiff?There are some positive messages about recycling and the environment, working together and helping each other within this fun picture book.

Categories: Caring for the Environment, Friendship & Getting Along, Gratitude, Kindness, Tidiness & Helping Out
Tags: co-operation, recycling

The Cloud

The Cloud

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Curiosity & Creativity, Sadness, Shyness
Tags: emotions, friends, persistence, shyness

The Nanny Goat’s Kid

The Nanny Goat's KidThis picture book explores family values, acceptance and tolerance

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Adoption & Fostering, Courage, Non-traditional Families
Tags: prejudice

Elmer

Elmer

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Uncategorized
Tags: diversity

Eric!…the Hero?

Eric!...the Hero?Any child who sometimes feels less intelligent, less capable and less successful than others will be heartened by the story of Eric who isn't much good at anything but turns out to be a hero.

Categories: Anxiety, Being Different & Being Yourself, Bullying, Violence & Abuse, Confidence & Self-esteem, Courage, Disabilities, Ghosts and Monsters
Tags: anxiety, autism, confidence, emotions, fears, loneliness, prejudice

Ringo the Flamingo

Ringo the FlamingoShows how although unable to walk Ringo finds his own way in the world and how he helps others.

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Bullying, Violence & Abuse, Courage, Disabilities, Kindness

Shaun The Shy Shark

Shaun The Shy SharkIt shows shyness and being different in a positive way.

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Being Different & Being Yourself, Bullying, Violence & Abuse, Confidence & Self-esteem, Resilience / adaptability, Shyness
Tags: confidence, shyness

Ruby Flew Too!

Ruby Flew Too!

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Being Different & Being Yourself, Confidence & Self-esteem

My Little Brother

My Little BrotherPromoting tolerance between siblings.

Categories: Gratitude, New Baby, Resilience / adaptability
Tags: brother, sibling rivalry

Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig

Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity JigThis book can help a child be confident with who they are and that having something about you that is different to others, in this case your name, is to be celebrated and be proud of.

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Being Different & Being Yourself, Gratitude
Tags: prejudice

Manners On Holiday

Manners On HolidayThe Manners books show children how to resolve small difficulties they might face in their daily lives. These stories help children to develop their social skills early in a fun and friendly way.

Categories: Friendship & Getting Along, Holidays & Travel, Kindness, Listening & Co-operating, Manners & Politeness
Tags: behaviour, co-operation, diversity, friends, hygiene, rudeness, sharing, table manners

I Feel Jealous (Your Emotions)

I Feel Jealous (Your Emotions)Helping a child come to terms with feelings of jealousy, including sibling rivalry.

Categories: Friendship & Getting Along, Gratitude
Tags: emotions, friends, jealousy, sibling rivalry

The Animal Boogie

The Animal BoogieCelebrating diversity, providing images of children of different ethnic backgrounds and wheelchair users.

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Being Different & Being Yourself, Disabilities
Tags: diversity, multicultural, wheelchair

Mayfly Day

Mayfly DayThis is a book that encourages children to enjoy the moment, and value the world about them.

Categories: Gratitude
Tags: gratitude

The Talent Show

The Talent ShowSupporting children who may feel they have no special gift or who are judged on first impressions.

Categories: Being Different & Being Yourself, Confidence & Self-esteem
Tags: confidence, friends

Meet The Genies

Meet the Genies

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Confidence & Self-esteem, Disabilities, Friendship & Getting Along

Why Do I Feel Scared? A First Look At Being Brave

Whay Do I Feel Scared? A First Look At Being BraveThis non-fiction picture book explores what it means to be brave and defines bravery in many different forms (including standing up for yourself and others, and trying new things).

Categories: Anxiety, Courage
Tags: anxiety, behaviour, growing up, persistence, phobias

Dad David, Baba Chris and Me

Dad DavidProvides guidance and support to children who are being parented by gay men. Encourages an appreciation of, and acceptance of, same-sex parents, and shows that families come in all shapes and sizes. Promotes a positive view of gay relationships.

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Adoption & Fostering, Aggression & Tantrums, Anxiety, Being Different & Being Yourself, Bullying, Violence & Abuse, Non-traditional Families, Sadness
Tags: anger, anxiety, diversity, emotions, father, friends, multicultural, prejudice, same-sex parents

Oliver

OliverEvery child feels different and alone sometimes and all carers learn to fear the wail "I don't have any friends". When loneliness strikes this book is the only friend a child will need.

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Being Different & Being Yourself, Confidence & Self-esteem, Sadness, Shyness
Tags: friends, loneliness, shyness

Melrose and Croc – Friends For Life

Melrose and Croc - Friends For Life

Categories: Confidence & Self-esteem, Friendship & Getting Along
Tags: friends

The Rabbit Listened

The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld

Categories: Death & Bereavement, Kindness, Sadness
Tags: change, emotions, feelings, friends, loneliness, loss

When Zeeder met a Xyder

When Zeeder met a Xyder

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Being Different & Being Yourself
Tags: friends, prejudice

All Kinds of People: a Lift-the-Flap Book

All Kinds of People: a Lift-the-Flap Book

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Being Different & Being Yourself
Tags: diversity, multicultural

The Heart and the Bottle

The Heart and the BottleThis book can help children emotionally deal with the loss of a loved one by showing them that there is always hope despite the heartache. 

Categories: Curiosity & Creativity, Death & Bereavement, Feelings
Tags: emotions, feelings, grandparent, loss

I Want To Be Like Poppin’ Joe

I Want To Be Like Poppin' JoeThis book tells the true story of a successful, hard working man with Down Syndrome and Autism, and the positive effect he has on a young boy.

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Confidence & Self-esteem, Disabilities, Resilience / adaptability
Tags: autism, confidence, Down's syndrome, friends, independence

Rocky and the Lamb

Rocky and the LambThe book shows how being positive about someone can have positive results and can even make a mean wolf change his ways and become a good wolf.

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Friendship & Getting Along, Manners & Politeness
Tags: behaviour, friends

Max The Champion

Max The ChampionMax is first and foremost a fun picture book about a sport-mad boy with a powerful imagination. It also tells us that deaf and disabled children can - and should - be included, both in stories and in life.

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Being Different & Being Yourself, Disabilities, Healthy Eating & Exercise
Tags: exercise, wheelchair

Samantha Jane’s Missing Smile

Samantha Jane's Missing SmileFor children who have lost a parent

Categories: Death & Bereavement, Resilience / adaptability, Sadness

Small Florence

Small FlorenceThis book may help a child to understand that if they have a special talent or something they love doing, that they can achieve their dreams.

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Being Different & Being Yourself, Bullying, Violence & Abuse, Confidence & Self-esteem, Courage, Resilience / adaptability, Shyness
Tags: confidence, persistence

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