Reading Well materials for health professionals
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Reading Well for children
Reading Well for children provides quality-assured information, stories and advice to support children’s mental health and wellbeing. Books have been chosen and recommended by leading health professionals and co-produced with children and families.
The booklist is targeted at children in Key Stage 2 (aged 7-11), but includes titles aimed at a wide range of reading levels to support less confident readers, and to encourage children to read together with their siblings and carers.
The books are available to borrow from your local library. Selected titles are also available to borrow as e-books and audiobooks. Visit your local library website to find out how to join the library and access books electronically.
England
Our guide to the book collection and digital leaflet are available to download for free.
Wales
Our bilingual digital leaflet is available to download for free.
Booklist categories
Healthy Minds
How Not to Lose It: Mental Health – Sorted
Anna Williamson, Sophie Beer
What’s Going On Inside My Head?
Molly Potter, Sarah Jennings
Healthy for Life: Self-esteem and Mental Health
Anna Claybourne
Feelings
Tom Alexander
Exploring Emotions: A Mindfulness Guide to Dealing with Emotions
Paul Christelis, Elisa Paganelli
Molly Potter
Katie Douglass
Worries
Questions and Feelings About: Worries
Paul Christelis, Ximena Jeria
Kathy Hoopmann
Francesca Sanna
Ruby’s Worry
Tom Percival
Outsmarting Worry: An Older Kid’s Guide to Managing Anxiety
Dawn Huebner PhD, Kara McHale
Sita Brahmachari
Elizabeth Laird
The world around you
Jane Lacey, Venitia Dean
#Goldilocks (A Hashtag Cautionary Tale)
Jeanne Willis, Tony Ross
Something Bad Happened: A Kid’s Guide to Coping with Events in the News
Dawn Huebner PhD, Kara McHale
Cath Howe
Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet
Zanib Mian, Nasaya Mafaridik
Dealing with tough times
The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself
Kara Simpson, Ali Redford
Jayde Perkin
Michael Rosen, Quentin Blake
Joseph Coelho, Allison Colpoys
Summer Macon
The Colour Thief: A family’s story of depression
Andrew Fusek Peters, Karin Littlewood, Polly Peters
Alan Durant
When you have a condition
Sally Harris, Maria Serrano
The Students of Limpsfield Grange School, Vicky Martin, Robert Pritchett
Stewart Foster
Can I tell you about ADHD?: A Guide for Friends, Family and Professionals
Susan Yarney, Chris Martin
Questions and Feelings About: Autism
Louise Spilsbury
The Illustrated Guide to Dyslexia and Its Amazing People
Kate Power, Kathy Iwanczak Forsyth, Richard Rogers
Questions and Feelings About: Having a Disability
Louise Spilsbury
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Reading Well for children is supported by:
British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, The British Psychological Society, Carers UK, Carers Trust, Mental Health First Aid England, Mental Health Foundation, Mind, National Association of Primary Care, NHS England (Children and Young People’s Mental Health), Public Health England, Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Psychiatrists.
