Picture Books About Mental Health

Check out these books if you're looking for a way to help talk to your child about mental health issues, like anxiety or depression

Updated June 19, 2024
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Molalla Library
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Pockets full of rocks
Engelberg, Yair
Paper Book
This gentle, hopeful book will help kids cope with a parent's mental illness. As a young girl gently questions her depressed father, he offers direct answers that help her understand what he is going through and promotes the hope that he will become his old self again. This gentle, hopeful...
Blue
Teckentrup, Britta
Paper Book
A beautiful story about sadness, depression and hope. Blue lives in the darkest depths of the forest. He has long forgotten how to fly, sing and play. The other birds swoop and soar in the sky above him, the sun warming their feathers. But Blue never joins in. ...
When Sadness comes to call
Eland, Eva
Paper Book
Jeremy worried about the wind
Butchart, Pamela
Paper Book
A witty, perceptive and reassuring story for any child who worries or feels anxious.
When things aren't going right, go left
Colagiovanni, Marc
Paper Book

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