Helpful Books

Help Your Dragon Cope With Trauma -Steve Herman

A cute children’s story to help kids understand and overcome traumatic events. (Available at the North Platte Public Library)

Teach Your Dragon Body Safety - Steve Herman

A story about personal boundaries, and appropriate and inappropriate touching. This story helps teach your child about body safety in a fun way that makes it easy to learn and remember. (Available at the North Platte Public Library)

Body Boundaries Make Me Stronger- Elizabeth Cole

A personal safety book for kids about body safety, personal space, private parts, and consent that teaches social skills and body awareness. A great way to help caregivers navigate the tricky situation of teaching kids about personal boundaries in a healthy, age-appropriate manner. (Available at the North Platte Public Library)

Consent Ninja -Mary Nhin

A children’s picture book about safety, boundaries, and consent- part of the Ninja Life Hacks Series. This book is geared to kids ages 3-11, perfect for boys, girls, early readers, school students, and toddlers! (Available at the North Platte Public Library)

Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept - Jayneen Sanders

This Book will help you teach your children about unsafe touch and teach them to always speak up. It is a great tool for parents, caregivers, teachers, and healthcare professionals to sensitively broach the subject of safe and unsafe touch in an age-appropriate way. Suitable for children aged 3 to 12 years old. (Available at the North Platte Public Library)

Do You Have a Secret - Jennifer Moore-Mallinos

A children’s mental health book to keep kids safe. This book helps distinguish between the fun secrets and the secrets that can make children feel bad or scared. Great for parents, caregivers, and teachers. (Available at the North Platte Public Library)

Talking About Feelings - Jayneen Sanders, Charie Zamazing

This is a great book to assist adults in helping children, unpack, understand, and manage their feelings and emotions engagingly and interactively. This is one of our favorites! It can be used by parents, caregivers, teachers, and/or health professionals. (Available at the North Platte Public Library)

Resilience - Jayneen Sanders

A book to encourage resilience, persistence and to help children bounce back from challenges and adversity. Nurturing resilience will go a long way in helping them face the many challenges they will encounter throughout their lives. (Available at the North Platte Public Library)

A Terrible Thing Happened - Margaret M. Holmes, Cary Pillo

A gently told story for kids who have witnessed any kind of violent or traumatic event, including physical abuse, school or gang violence, accidents, homicide, suicide, and natural disasters such as floods or fire. Caring adults can use this book to help children talk about and understand the experience.

Maybe Days - Jennifer Wilgocki

A book for children in foster care. Honest and reassuring, it addresses the questions, feelings, and concerns these children most often face. This book also provides basic information that children want and need to know including the roles of various people in the foster care system and whom to ask for help.

Somebody Cares - Susan Farber Staus PhD

This book is for children who have experienced parental neglect and have been taking care of many things on their own. It follows children who have experienced neglect and helps them understand their associated feelings, thoughts and behaviors. This book does a great job of teaching kids that they are not to blame and prepares them for changes that can occur as their families begin to receive help.