HSC 343: Health Education in the Elementary School: Other Emotional Health Themes

Four sisters--different ages with different interests--are all bursting with energy but tumble into trouble as they charge full speed ahead into their high-spirited day. As each blames the others for one mishap after another, they soon discover that having siblings can be useful and fun.

Loved by more than a million families since its publication ten years ago. Now parents can extend the celebration of their child's birth with this easy-to-use photo journal inspired by that modern classic. By adding photographs, a few details--and a lot of love--they can create a wonderful book to read with their child about their first day together.

With warmth, empathy, and a healthy dose of hilarity, Robie H. Harris and Harry Bliss capture the many emotions children feel when parents go out;and a babysitter comes in! Parents, kids, and babysitters alike will relate to;and laugh at; this all-too-familiar tale.

Every year, Gabrielle gets a new coat. And every year her coat looks the same -- navy blue. This year Gabrielle wants something different -- a purple coat. Alone with Grampa in his cozy tailor shop, Gabrielle does some fast talking. His solution makes The Purple Coat a very special book.

When a little boy plants a carrot seed, everyone tells him it won't grow. But when you are very young, there are some things that you just know, and the little boy knows that one day a carrot will come up. So he waters his seed, and pulls the weeds, and he waits ...

Jeremiah and Amanda are fighting over toys in their kindergarten class. The teacher tells them, "Now, look! This is kindergarten. We share everything." When Jeremiah and Amanda take their teacher's advice, the whole class is in for a hilarious surprise!

The award-winning book about a beautiful fish who finds friendship and happiness when he learns to share is now available in a board book edition for the youngest child.

Speaking in front of the class isn't easy for Melissa Herman when there's nothing very special to say about her house, her family or herself. With the help of her older brother, Melissa borrows a bottle from her father's dental office to take to show and tell. The teacher is appalled, but the children are intrigued.

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith--wife of superstar Will Smith--lovingly captures the strength, unity, and beauty that live in girls in this poignant photographic book."We are sisters of this Earth -- members of one powerful tribe. Every color, shape, and size, we're united by beauty inside." Artistic photographs enhance the positive message of Jada Pinkett Smith's inspiring poem.

In simple, reassuring language, therapist Cornelia Spelman explains that a child's body is his or her own; that it is all right for children to decline a friendly hug or kiss, even from someone they love; and that "even if you don't want a hug or kiss right now, you can still be friends". She goes on to define private parts ("places on your body covered by a bathing suit") and stresses that "it's important to tell if someone tries to touch your private parts". .

"Brooks's fine first novel has a baskeball theme and plenty of action, but sport is merely the vehicle for delivering a serious story of friendship and madness." "Brilliant sportswriting and a trenchant examination of the friendship between narrator Jerome Foxworthy [an African-American seventh-grader] and Bix, a white boy in trouble."

The quirky Clarice Bean is in for a spell of trouble; and shares a lesson about kindness; in this hilarious, follow-up to UTTERLY ME, CLARICE BEAN. Clarice Bean seems to be in nonstop trouble these days, almost as much as Karl Wrenbury, who is the naughtiest boy at school. If only she could be more like her favorite book character, Ruby Redfort, girl detective.

Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she's denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Moose's family has used for dealing with her disorder.

A winning new picture book about the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. Did you know that one of America's favorite songs, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," was written about a girl? And that in the 1940s girls all across America were crazy for our country's favorite game? These little known facts inspired a story about how one determined girl made her way to the big leagues & found a sisterhood of players in pigtails.

A School Library Journal Best Book of the YearDallas and Florida are "the trouble twins," shuffled around all their lives, longing for a loving place to call home. Tiller and Sairy are an eccentric older couple restless for one more big adventure. And Ruby Holler is the beautiful, mysterious place that changes all their lives forever.

"Tell me a story of when you were little" is something children love to ask. Now ten award-winning writers: M tell young readers stories drawn from their own childhood memories. The authors have also contributed notes about why they chose particular memories to write about and what in their lives led them to be writers.

At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it's too late for apologies.

Ginny has ten items on her big to-do list for seventh grade. None of them, however, include accidentally turning her hair pink. Or getting sent to detention for throwing frogs in class. Or losing the lead role in the ballet recital to her ex-best friend. Or the thousand other things that can go wrong between September and June.Here's the story of one girl's worst school year ever -- told completely through her stuff.

Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering -kira-kira - in the future.

Before Wilma was five years old, polio had paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again. But Wilma refused to believe it. Not only would she walk again, she vowed, she'd run. And she did run--all the way to the Olympics, where she became the first American woman to earn three gold medals in a single olympiad.

The first of five children's books written by international superstar Madonna, this is a story about slumber parties, jealousy, fairy godmothers, and friendship; about feeling green with envy, blue with loneliness, pink with embarrassment, purple with rage, and how to find true-blue friends.

Mr. Peabody, beloved elementary school teacher and baseball coach, one day finds himself ostracized when rumors spread through the small town. He silences the gossip with an unforgettable lesson about how we must choose our words carefully to avoid causing harm to others.

Eleven-year-old Marty Preston loves to spend time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia. But one summer Sunday, Marty comes across something different on the road just past the old Shiloh schoolhouses -- a young beagle. What do you do when a dog you suspect is being mistreated runs away and comes to you? This is Marty's problem, and he finds it is one he has to face alone. When his solution gets too big for him to handle, things become more frightening still. Marty puts his courage on the line, and discovers in the process that it is not always easy to separate right from wrong.

Two boys - a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny Einstein in leg braces - forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force. "A wonderful story of triumph over imperfection, shame, and loss." -

Once there was a tree . . . and she loved a little boy. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk; and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older, he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave.

Peter thinks the only way he can reclaim his room is by declaring war on his grandfather.

Emma-Jean Lazarus is a lovable oddball who thinks she can use logic to solve the messy, everyday problems of her seventh-grade peers. She just follows the example of her late father, a brilliant mathematician. Of course, the more Emma-Jean gets involved, the messier her own life gets. This is a tender story about what happens when a girl who has long stood in the social shadows gets a taste of what it's like to connect with kids her own age.