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==Welcome to the Empathy and Resilience in Children's Literature Wiki! This is a space where you will find the book list that was presented at the Wonderplay Conference. I am hoping that members will add more titles to this list and that it will become a resource for teachers and librarians.==

__Tried and True Titles__

Bridges, Shirin Yim. //Ruby's Wish//. New York: Scholastic, 2004. Print. In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins.

Clements, Andrew. //Big Al//. New York: Aladdin, 1997. Print. A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman's net.

Cruz, Judith/, and Ray (Ilt) Viorst. //Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day//. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1972. Print. On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.

Fox, Mem. //Koala Lou//. New York: Penquin Books, 2002. Print. A young koala, longing to hear her mother speak lovingly to her as she did before other children came along, plans to win her distracted parent's attention.

Havill, Juanita. //Jamaica and Brianna//. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Print. Jamaica hates wearing hand-me-down boots when her friend Brianna has pink fuzzy ones.

Henkes, Kevin. //Chrysanthemum//. New York: Scholastic, 1992. Print. Chrysanthemum loves her name until she starts going to school and the other children begin to make fun of it.

Hoffman, Mary. //Amazing Grace// (Reading Rainbow Book). New York: Dial, 1991. Print. Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is African-American, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.

Lester, Helen. //A Porcupine Named Fluffy//. Austin: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1989. Print. A porcupine named Fluffy is happier with his name after he meets a similarly misnamed rhinoceros.

Neouanic, Lionel Le//. Little Smudge//. Great Britian: Boxer Books Limited, 2007. Print. Little Smudge was sad because the colorful shapes did not want to play with him, until his mother told him of all the things he could do.

O'Neill, Alexis. //The Recess Queen//. New York: Scholastic Press, 2002. Print. Mean Jean is the biggest bully on the school playground until a new girl arrives and challenges Jean's status as the Recess Queen.

Wyeth, Sharon Dennis. //Something Beautiful.// 1998. Reprint. New York, New York: Dragonfly Books, 2002. Print. When she goes looking for "something beautiful" in her city neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.

//(MLA formatting by BibMe.org.//)


 * Newer and Forthcoming Titles**

Abrams, Douglas Carlton, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. //God's Dream//. Cambridge: Candlewick, 2008. Print.

Funke, Cornelia. //The Princess Knigh//t. New York: The Chicken House, 2004. Print. Princess Violetta, raised by her widowed father, the king, to ride and joust just like her brothers, is horrified when he announces plans to hold a tournament, the winner of which will win her hand in marriage. (CIP)

Graham, Bob. //How to Heal a Broken Wing//. Cambridge: Candlewick, 2008. Print. When Will finds a bird with a broken wing, he takes it home and cares for it, hoping in time it will be able to return to the sky. (CIP)

Hills, Tad. //Duck & Goose//. New York City: Schwartz & Wade, 2006. Duck and Goose learn to work together to take care of a ball that they think is an oversized egg. (CIP)

Horvath, David. //Bossy Bear//. New York: Hyperion Book Ch, 2007. Print. Bossy Bear always wants things his way, but when his best friend Turtle starts acting just like him, Bossy Bear tries to change. (CIP)

James, Simon. //Little One Step//. New York: Walker Books Ltd, 2004. Print. As three duckling brothers cross forest and field to return to their mother, the older ones encourage the youngest by teaching him a game that earns him the name of Little One Step. (CIP)

Kirk, Daniel. //Keisha Ann Can!//. New York: Putnam Juvenile, 2008. Print. Keisha Ann is proud of all the things she can do during her day at school. (CIP)

Muldrow, Diane. //We Planted a Tree//. Barnstaple: Golden Books, 2010. Print. In this simple poem, two young families in two very different parts of the world plant a tree. As the trees flourish, so do the families. . . while trees all over the world help clean the air, enrich the soil, and give fruit and shade. (product description)

Rosenthal, Amy Krouse. //Bedtime for Mommy//. New York: Bloomsbury Usa Children's Books, 2010. Print. A hilarious reversal of the classic bedtime routine in which a little girl puts Mommy (and then Daddy) to bed. (product description)

Russo, Marisabina. //A Very Big Bunny//. New York City: Schwartz & Wade, 2010. Print. A very big bunny stays to herself after classroom teasing. When a potential friend shows up, will she be able to let her guard down?

Seeger, Laura Vaccaro. //Dog and Bear: Two's Company// (Neal Porter Books). New Milford: Roaring Brook Press, 2008. Print. Three more easy-to-read stories reveal the close friendship between a dachshund named Dog and a stuffed bear. (CIP)

Yaccarino, Dan. //Unlovable// (Owlet Book). New York, New York: Owlet Paperbacks, 2004. Print. Alfred, a pug, is made to feel inferior by a cat, a parrot, and the other neighborhood dogs, until a new dog moves in next door and helps Alfred to realize he is fine just the way he is. (CIP)

Yeh, Kat. You're Lovable to Me. New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 2009. Print. After Mama puts her bunnies to bed with words of love, Grandpa delivers the same reassuring message to his sleeping daughter. (CIP)

Young, Amy. //Belinda Begins Ballet//. New York: Viking Juvenile, 2008. Print. Belinda, a tiny girl with enormous feet, is very unhappy when she is cast as a clown in her school's talent show, but she finds a way to ease her misery when she observes an older student practicing a ballet routine and falls in love with dancing. (CIP) //(MLA formatting by BibMe.org.//)


 * Titles for Adults to Consider**

Jeffers, Oliver. //The Heart and the Bottle//. New York : Philomel, 2010. Print. //When her beloved grandfather dies, a girl locks up her heart in a bottle as not to be hurt again. Only after she has grown and she meets a child//, //can she free her feelings to share in the joy of the world.//

Rosen, Michael. //The Sad Book//. Cambridge : Candlewick, 2008. Print //A man tells about all the emotions that accompany his sadness over the death of his son, and how he tries to cope.// (CIP)