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 toddlerspreschoolers 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

Five Little Ducks

Infant / Toddler
A toddler favorite, this colorful board book features a classic counting song in which, one by one, five little ducklings leave their loving duck mother. In the end (hooray!) each returns to her, trailed by a flock of surprises. Available in Spanish.

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.

Perspective Taking

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

Infant / Toddler
A masterful book and noisy trip to the zoo! Polar Bear says he hears a lion roaring. Lion says he hears a hippo snorting. As the perspective shifts from animal to animal, children chime in, practice animal sounds and make predictions. Available in Spanish.

Perspective Taking

Whoever You Are

Preschool
Whoever You Are shares the ways that children all over the world differ and yet are the same. Demonstrates diversity/inclusion. Available in bilingual and Spanish editions.

Perspective Taking

Fish is Fish

Preschool
When Fish’s best friend, Tadpole, sprouts legs, ventures onto land and comes back with glorious descriptions, Fish yearns to see for himself. Quickly, he discovers that “frog is frog and fish is fish,” and as a fish, the pond is the best place for him.

Perspective Taking

Are You Ready to Play Outside?

Preschool
In this hilarious award-winning book, Gerald (an elephant) and Piggie (a pig) think the rain has ruined their plans, until they learn that, to others, wet weather is big fun.

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