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In this book Etan explores the themes of co-operative and supportive behavior between individuals, as well as what sometimes goes wrong in our relationships with one another. With numerous openings in the text for discussion, What Is a Friend? will help children cultivate the critical thinking required for understanding the complex dynamics of personal interactions. This book will become an important part of any child’s library, and a valuable resource for parents, educators, and child-life professionals.

What Is Right? helps children develop critical thinking skills on the difficult subjects of ethics and integrity. Author Boritzer does not take a teaching approach. He presents children and adults with an opportunity to dialogue together in considering decisions and choices involving various situations which require wholesome social reasoning abilities.

What Is Peace? explores themes of non-violence and diversity helping kids, parents, and teachers to discuss and cultivate the critical thinking required for peaceful actions. Young listeners will be able to take a thoughtful and positive journey through the complex issues connected with the personal responsibilities inherent to peace. What Is Peace? gently teaches the true essence and workings of peace.

What Is Love? is a way for children to discover how we all share many of the same needs and concerns in life, especially the need for love! This book communicates a message of multiculturalism and diversity as the means by which goals of understanding and tolerance can be reached. A sincere yet playful message for appreciating one of life's tenderest emotions through which children can ponder the total human experience of honest caring and good will.

What Is Funny? book addresses the subject of sensitivity and awareness in humor. Laughing at others or laughing at oneself, or laughing for no particular reason at all, author Etan Boritzer approaches the various subtleties of this basic human activity asking what is appropriate and what is hurtful, while tackling issues of taunting and teasing, bullying, and aggression - issues that are very much in the focus of our nation’s schools today.

Children’s dreams are a mysterious and sometimes frightening subject. Dreams can be informative in dealing with everyday problems. What Is Dreaming? will help to open discussion on children’s dreams and to unravel some of the subconscious concerns which children confront in their dreams, both scary and fun dreams. Parents, educators, and child-life professionals will find What Is Dreaming? to be a valuable resource in dealing with children’s dreams.

What Is Death? addresses children’s natural curiosity about this difficult subject. Introducing the concept of death with examples of customs and beliefs from different religions and cultures, the book also allows the listener to reflect on themes of tolerance, identity, and generosity. Reality-based and using a gentle and comforting tone, What Is Death? takes an honest approach and encourages children to embrace the positive in life.

A girl murders her own father and mother in cold blood. A whole village of people disappears without trace, and all anyone saw were strange lights in the sky. An Egyptian mummy, disturbed after thousands of years, leaves a trail of horrible disasters. Incredible? Impossible? Too awful to imagine? But someone, somewhere has sworn that each of these sinister stories is true...

Our kids are under tremendous stress and pressure, with a rapidly changing culture demanding more and more from them. More attention, more screens, more intensity, more fear. Anxious for Nothing helps?young people overcome the anxiety and pressures of today's world and come to a deeper...

This audio book assures children of God's love through all their experiences—including during hard times such as being afraid of the dark or being bullied—and gives assurance that their parent was there when they were first born and will be with them even in heaven. From?New York Times...

Having the WORST DAY EVER? Turn that frown upside down in this wiggling, hooting, roaring adventure from picture book superstar, Sophy Henn! Arthur is having the WORST DAY EVER. So he runs away - nearly to the end of the garden. But when it's time to go home, Arthur's journey back is full of...

This program includes an introduction read by Lady Gaga For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kindness can change the way we view one another, our communities, and even ourselves. She embodies this mission, and through her work...

In this book, Stuart Lawrence talks about what he has learned from life - the tools that have helped him live positively and kept him moving forwards when times have been tough. From role models to self-control, failure to imagination, Stuart’s aim with this book is to use his own experience to help young people - to help all people - harness the good in themselves and in the world around them, using that fire of positivity to create change in their lives.

From the author of BREATHE LIKE A BEAR comes a new collection of Mindful Moments! These easy-to-follow exercises help kids calmly and mindfully navigate their day, from sunrise to sunset. With sections dedicated to key activities in a child's routine--waking up, traveling, learning, playing...

This mindful exercise featuring a colorful elephant helps kids feel focused, wherever they are. With Listen Like an Elephant, kids learn to slow down, listen to the world around them, and focus their attention—no matter how messy life becomes. Best of all, this simple mindfulness exercise...

This guided mindfulness exercise featuring a sweet bear cub will help kids feel calm, wherever they are. Kids will learn to breathe deeply and soothe themselves slowly to sleep, just like a bear in hibernation! Written and read by Kira Willey, winner of three Parents' Choice Gold Awards, this...

Written and read by Kira Willey, winner of three Parents' Choice Gold Awards, kids can use these three mindfulness activities to manage their bodies, breath, and emotions. With Breathe Like a Bear, kids will learn to breathe deeply and soothe themselves slowly to sleep, just like a bear in...

This mindful moment teaches kids to breathe like a bunny and find their own focused energy! With Bunny Breaths, kids learn to how to replenish their energy with quick, focused breaths...no matter how blah they feel. This simple, fun exercise can be done anywhere: in the backseat of a car...

The first of its kind! This how-to audiobook from two psychology experts will help kids transform stress, worry, and anxiety by uncovering their inner superpowers. Perfect for fans of The Confidence Code for Girls and Raina Telgemeier's Guts. Now more than ever, kids need to feel empowered as...

This accessible and fun guide to meditation and mindfulness is the perfect introduction for young children. Meditation does a body good, and can even help kids as young as four or five. This practical guide is gentle, clear, and a pleasure to use. Kids will learn how to focus on their breath, on...

Brought to you by Puffin. For the first time ever, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate His Holiness the Dalai Lama addresses children directly, sharing lessons of peace and compassion, told through stories of his own childhood. One of today's most inspiring world leaders was once an ordinary child named...

The internationally bestselling author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, Amy Morin, empowers tweens, teaching them how to think, feel, and act stronger than ever! Perfect for fans of The Confidence Code for Girls, this book tackles mental strength in a relatable way. “This book...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! New from the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling authors of The Confidence Code for Girls! The best way to understand confidence is to see it in action. That’s why bestselling authors Katty Kay, Claire Shipman, and JillEllyn...

A heartwarming story of a stray dog and a U.S. Marine who met under the unlikeliest circumstances in Afghanistan—and who changed each other’s lives forever. As part of an elite team of Marines, Craig Grossi was sent on his most dangerous assignment to the Sangin District of Afghanistan. He...

Many kids claim to have seen ghosts in all sorts of places - cemeteries, bedrooms, attics, schools, roadways, forests, caves. Often, experts were called in to investigate these apparent hauntings, and most of the time these so-called experts walked away baffled. The only thing that everyone could agree on was that something very weird had happened, something that could never be fully explained.

For centuries, magicians have astounded and delighted audiences with incredible illusions. But here's their biggest and best-kept secret: learning magic tricks can help you grow your confidence, feel happier, and boost your brain power! Professor Richard Wiseman, psychology professor and member...

Feelings, flavors, and colors – how do they connect? Sometimes, our feelings overwhelm us and we’re not sure what to do with them. Children experience very intense emotions, both positive and negative, and when they don’t know how to separate their hunger from their emotions, over time they can develop an unhealthy relationship with food.

The UFO subject as we know it came to the public’s attention on June 24, 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold, flying over the Cascade Mountains in the USA, witnessed a formation of objects that he could not identify. Speaking later to a journalist regarding the encounter, Arnold was asked how this formation of objects moved through the air, and his response was: “Like skipping a saucer across a pond.” From that moment on, the coined phrase "Flying Saucer" was born.

Did you know that Dialectical Behavior Therapy has helped millions of teenagers since it was developed just over 30 years ago! This isn’t just a book; it’s an interactive audiobook. It uses dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a form of therapy that helps people find the balance between accepting themselves and changing what they don’t like about themselves.

Dark figures in the night. An owl's cry on the wind. Monsters watching from the edge of the wood. Some of the creatures in this book might only have a message for you, but some are the stuff of nightmares. These 32 short stories - from tales passed down for generations to accounts that could have happened yesterday - are collected from the thriving tradition of ghost stories from American Indian cultures across North America. Prepare for stories of witches and walking dolls, hungry skeletons, la llorona, and deer woman, and other supernatural beings ready to chill you to the bone.