The ECCP Bookshelf
The ECCP® bookshelf contains reviews of books that help support the social and emotional development of young children.
Reading to young children can help build many important skills. In addition to early literacy skills, books with a social/emotional focus can help children learn to manage emotions and behavior, problem solve and to socialize with others. Books can help children build empathy by helping them to understand feelings of their own and of others.
In addition, reading to young children can provide a very important emotional connection between an adult and a child or group of children. Children learn best through a relationship with an adult and reading is a wonderful pathway to helping them learn. There are opportunities for physical closeness, building a child’s focus and attention and complex thinking skills. Adults can engage children by having them turn the page, identifying objects and events and guessing what will happen next.
Books to grow by: Promoting social & emotional competence in young children
- Glad Monster, Sad Monster: A Book About Feelings
Ed Emberley and Anne Miranda - Kids Need To Be Safe
Julie Nelson - A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue
Julia Cook - My Mouth Is a Volcano
Julia Cook - The Lion and the Mouse
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney - When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry...
Molly Bang - You're Mean Lilly Jean
Frieda Wishinsky - I'm not Sleepy!
Jonathan Allen - Happy Hippo, Angry Duck
Sandra Boynton - It's Mine!
Leo Lionni - My Many Colored Days
Dr. Seuss - Courage
Bernard Waber - Big Body Play
Frances M. Carlson - The Way I Feel
Janan Cain - A Boy and A Bear
Lori Lite - Mean Soup
Betsy Everitt - When I Care About Others
Cornelia Maude Spelman - The Rainbow Fish
Marcus Pfister - Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle - Shubert's Big Voice
Dr. Becky A. Bailey and Leigh Ann Burdick - Wemberly Worried
Kevin Henkes - The Dot
Peter H Reynolds - The Goodbye Book
Todd Farr - Sophie Wants A Turn
Dr. Becky A. Bailey - Ready to use Self-Esteem Activities for Young Children
Jean R. Feldman Ph.D.
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