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Skill-Building Book Tips

Turn storytime into skill-building time.

These free, downloadable resources offer tips for building children’s life skills based on classic and diverse children’s books.

With content customized to each book, Book Tips help boost science-driven learning, fun and engagement between children and adults. These resources are available in English and Spanish and designed for three age groups, infants and toddlers, preschoolers and school-age.

Educators can also access Book Tips through a partnership with First Book, a nonprofit social enterprise that provides books and educational materials for educators serving children in need.

Books & Tips that Promote Life Skills

Perspective Taking

Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal

Infant / Toddler
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal is the much-loved Cinderella story told through the traditions of many different lands. Demonstrates diversity/inclusion.
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Self-Directed, Engaged Learning

Where’s Spot?

Infant / Toddler
Spot is a curious puppy, eager to explore his world. Young children can lift the flap on each page to find Spot, learning new descriptions and hiding places as they turn the pages. Available in Spanish.
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Critical Thinking

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie

Preschool
This wildly popular lesson in cause and effect stars a very bossy mouse! First he wants a cookie, then some milk, next a straw—what’s a boy to do?? The giggle-worthy story eventually comes full circle, making kids say, “Read it again!”. Available in Spanish.
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Focus & Self-Control

Wilma Unlimited

School Age
Wilma Unlimited tells the inspiring true story of how Wilma Rudolph overcame many odds—from being the “sickliest child” in her hometown with a variety of illnesses, including polio, to becoming the world’s fastest runner and winning three Olympic Gold Medals. Demonstrates diversity/inclusion. Available in Spanish.
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Making Connections

On The Same Day in March

School Age
Journey to the Arctic, India, Kenya and beyond with this rich picture book. It helps children see that the weather in one part of the world might be very different from that in another part of the world—even on the same day. Great for comparing and contrasting! Demonstrates diversity/inclusion.
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Self-Directed, Engaged Learning

Rickshaw Girl

School Age
Rickshaw Girl is the contemporary story of a young Bangladeshi girl, Naima, who excels at painting traditional alpana patterns, but chafes under societal dos and don’t for girls. “If only I HAD been born a boy,” she thinks, because then she could earn money to help her struggling family. First, she dreams of helping her father drive his rickshaw, but crashes it on a test drive. Then, desperate to help pay for the repairs, she disguises herself as a boy and goes out to find the repair shop to see if she can trade her skill in painting in exchange for the rickshaw repairs. That’s when a whole new world of possibilities opens up. Demonstrates diversity/inclusion.
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