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April 27, 2010

Sometimes a children's story does a much better job of impressing a point on a toddler than anything we as parents can say or do. So we hit up the inspired child development experts at Seedlings Group for a list of great children's books to address everything from tantrums and sharing to sickness and feelings—for those days when our own parenting skills seem to be falling short. 

TANTRUMS 
• When Sophie Gets Angry—Really Really Angry, by Molly Bang
• Mouse was Mad, by Linda Urban and Henry Cole
• Finn Throws a Fit, by David Elliott and Timothy Basil Ering 
• The Chocolate Covered Cookie Tantrum, by Deborah Blumenthal and Harvey Stevenson 
• Beatrice Doesn’t Want To, by Laura Numeroff and Lynn Munsinger

CHORES 
• How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms?, by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague 
• The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Chores, by Stan Berenstain

PARENTAL LOVE 
• You Are My I Love You, by Maryann K. Cusimano 
• I Love You Through And Through, by Bernadette Rossetti Shustak 
• Guess How Much I Love You, by Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram

SHARING/FRIENDS 
• The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister Herbert 
• How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?, by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague 
• A Visitor for Bear, by Bonny Becker and Kady MacDonald Denton 
• The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog, by Mo Williams 
• But Excuse Me, That is My Book, by Lauren Child 
• A Splendid Friend, Indeed, by Suzanne Bloom

PERSEVERENCE 
• The Little Engine That Could, by Loren Long

EATING 
• How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?, by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague 
• Bread and Jam for Frances, by Russell Hoban and Lillian Hoban 
• Little Pea, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

NEW SIBLING 
• How to Be a Baby by Me, the Big Sister, by Sally Lloyd-Jones and Sue Heap 
• The New Baby, by Ruth Shane 
• Baby Come Out!, by Fran Manushkin

FEELINGS 
• My Many Colored Days, by Theodor Geisel - Dr. Seuss 
• Grumpy Gloria, by Anna Dewdney 
• Bear Feels Scared, by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman 
• Llama Llama Mad at Mama, by Anna Dewdney 
• Today I Feel Silly, by Jamie Lee Curtis 
• Mrs. Biddlebox, by Linda smith 
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, by Judith Viorst

MOVING 
• The Berenstain Bears' Moving Day, by Stan Berenstain 
• Big Ernie’s New Home, by Teresa Martin and Whitney Martin

VALUES 
• A Chair for My Mother, by Vera B. Williams

POTTY 
• Big Girls Use the Potty!, by Andrea Pinnington 
• Once Upon a Potty, by Alona Frankel 
• Everyone Poops, by Taro Gomi 
• No More Diapers for Ducky, by Bernette Ford and Sam Williams 
• A Potty for Me!, by Karen Katz

SICKNESS 
• Bear Feels Sick, by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman 
• How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?, by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague 
• The Berenstain Bears Get a Checkup, by Stan Berenstain

SEPARATION 
• Don’t Go, by Jane Breskin Zalben 
• Llama Llama Misses Mama, by Anna Dewdney 
• The Kissing Hand, by Audrey Penn

GOING TO SLEEP 
• The Going to Bed Book, by Sandra Boynton 
• How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague 

ADOPTION 
• Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell 
• The Little Green Goose, by Adele Sansone 
• Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale, by Karen Katz

TWO MOMS/TWO DADS 
• Mommy, Mama, and Me, by Lesléa Newman 
• The Family Book, by Todd Parr 
• Daddy, Papa, and Me, by Lesléa Newman

PACIFIERS 
• Pacifiers are Not Forever, by Elizabeth Verdick and Marieka Heinlen 
• No More Pacifiers!, by Melanie O’Brien

MOVING TO A TODDLER BED
• Sophie's Big Bed, by Tina Burke

DIVORCE 
• Two Homes, by Claire Masurel 
• It’s Not Your Fault, Koko Bear, by Vicki Lansky 
• Dinosaurs Divorce, by Marc Brown

PHYSICAL AGGRESSION 
• Teeth Are Not for Biting, by Elizabeth Verdick and Marieka Heinlen 
• Hands Are Not for Hitting, by Martine Agassi Ph.D. and Marieka Heinlen 
• No Biting!, by Karen Katz 
• No Hitting!, by Karen Katz

BULLIES 
• Let’s Be Enemies, by Janice May Udry

BEING UNIQUE 
• Freckleface Strawberry, by Julianne Moore 
• Big Dog . . . Little Dog, by P.D. Eastman 
• A Color of His Own, by Leo Lionni

NIGHTMARES
• There’s a Nightmare in My Closet, by Mercer Mayer

DEATH 
• Remembering Grandpa, by Uma Krishnaswami

SCHOOL 
• WOW School, by Robert Neubecker 
• I Am Absolutely Too Small for School, by Lauren Child

CONCEPT OF TIME 
• A Second is a Hiccup: A Child’s Book of Time, by Hazel Hutchins

CURIOSITY 
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle 
• What Do You Do With a Tale Like This?, by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page 
• Where do Balloons Go?: An Uplifting Mystery, by Jamie Lee Curtis