Books like Voices Are Not for Yelling
By Elizabeth Verdick
For the toddler whose big feelings come out in an even bigger voice, this book gives words and calm-down tools before the next meltdown hits. Gentle, encouraging, matter-of-fact — calm rather than corrective.
A gentle guide walks toddlers through all the things hands can do besides hit — drawing, building, waving, hugging — while teaching calmer ways to handle big feelings like anger.
A little girl gets angry-really, really angry-until she erupts, storms off on her own, and slowly finds her way back to calm.
A gentle exploration of morning through its sounds, from the quiet of first light to the chipper alarm, a rumbling stomach, and a clanking garbage truck outside.
A little boy plants a carrot seed, and though his mother, father, and big brother all warn him it won't grow, he waters it and pulls the weeds and waits, sure that he's right.
A young boy asks his grandma where God is in their city, so she teaches him to look for kindness, patience, and love in the people around him.
An elderly man sets out to paint his porch pink with his cat Tabby by his side, but a scampering squirrel and his neighbor's dog Zeke turn the simple chore into chaos.
A bright, silly tour through all kinds of feelings — silly, brave, mad, like eating pizza for breakfast — showing kids that every mood, big or small, is normal.
A monster wakes up with all his emotions jumbled together — angry, happy, calm, sad, and scared all at once — until a little girl helps him sort each feeling into its own color.
A gentle poem asks young readers to remember the sky they were born under, the moon, the sun's dawn birth, and the family and creatures that connect them to the earth.
A young badger tucked in for the night keeps finding reasons to get out of bed — a glass of milk, a favorite doll, worries about tigers and cracks in the ceiling — testing her patient parents one request at a time.
Four small animals — a yellow bird, a white dog, an orange fox, and a brown squirrel — each face a little setback in one day, until something good turns things around for all of them.
A brown bear, a red bird, a yellow duck, and other colorful animals appear one by one, each asked the same singsong question about what it sees next.
