Connect with Therapeutic Activities:

 You don’t have to do it alone.
Bring a reading specialist and a child therapist into your home with our easy-to-use downloads
 

🧠 Connect with Therapeutic Activities

Reinforce growth and connection with simple, CBT-inspired therapeutic activities—designed to build emotional awareness, encourage resilience, and support your child’s journey.

These activities aren’t formal therapy—but they are therapeutic. They’re grounded in evidence-based approaches like CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), solution-focused prompts, motivational techniques, and emotion-processing strategies—all thoughtfully created to be playful, purposeful, and easy to use at home or in the classroom.

Use them:

• 💬 When your child is open and reflective (after reading, during quiet time, or in response to an emotional moment)

• 🧩 To connect deeply without pressure

• ✨ To help kids name, explore, and reframe their thoughts and feelings

These activities pair directly with the themes of each book in your Books of the Month or Read This When...™ downloads—making it easy to integrate emotional learning into your everyday storytime routine.

📚 What Is Bibliotherapy?

It’s not just reading—it’s healing through story.
Bibliotherapy uses carefully selected picture books to help kids understand emotions, navigate challenges, and build real-life coping skills—all through the safety and magic of storytelling.

💡 Why It Works:

• ✅ Kids feel seen and heard

• ✅ Stories create safe emotional distance

• ✅ Builds emotional vocabulary

• ✅ Encourages empathy and perspective

• ✅ Models healthy coping + problem-solving

• ✅ Strengthens confidence and connection

⏰ When to Use It:

• 🌱 During big transitions (new school, new sibling, moving)

• 🌧️ In moments of tough emotions (anger, anxiety, sadness)

• 💔 After difficult experiences (conflict, stress, loss)

• 🫶 To grow friendship skills and emotional understanding

• 📖 Anytime you want to connect through story and support your child’s inner world

Let the books lead the way—and let the activities help it stick.

How to Use This Resource (It’s Easier Than You Think!)

This isn’t a script—it’s your shortcut to connection. Here's how to make the most of your Read This Book When... pages:

• 🔍 Start with what your child needs.
  Anxious? Frustrated? Lonely? There's a story for that.

• 📚 Read together.
  No pressure—just snuggle up and let the story do the heavy lifting.

• 💬 Talk as you go.
  Use the built-in thought-starters to explore feelings, spark ideas, and spot those little “aha!” moments.

• 👀 Begin with the characters—not your kid.
  Chat about the character’s challenges first—it creates emotional safety and lowers resistance.

• 🛑 If your child gets defensive, pause the personal stuff.
  Stick with the story. Repetition builds comfort and openness.

• 🎭 Play it out.
  Draw it, act it out, breathe through it—activities help the message stick.

• 🔁 Repeat the magic.
  Each re-read builds confidence, vocabulary, and emotional muscle.

✨ These aren’t just pages—they’re powerful little bridges to connection, calm, and growth.

🧠 More Than Just Reading Aloud

Reading aloud is just the beginning. True growth comes when you engage your child’s thoughts and feelings through conversation and connection.

Our guides go further by blending stories with simple, proven CBT tools—helping kids link thoughts, feelings, and actions.
It’s reading that builds resilience, one page and one lightbulb moment at a time.