All Booked Up | Well-Being (Jan 2026)

A few of our favorite books about well-being for this month's All Booked Up reading challenge. Not seeing anything you like? Browse more books about health, mindfulness and well-being in the library catalog in English or español, or request a personalized recommendation from library staff.

BONUS! Let us know what book you read for a chance to win free ice cream from Mike's Drive In and a book to keep.

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Updated December 4, 2025
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Don't throw it to Mo!
Adler, David A.
Paper Book
Mo may not be the biggest, the strongest, or the fastest football player, but he won't let that stop him from playing! The Geisel Award Winning reader from David Adler is now in Step into Reading! Mo is the youngest kid on the Robins football team. The kids on the rival team...

In this sports-themed series opener, Mo's small size doesn't prevent him from being a valuable member of his football team. (Early Reader)

Also available as an e-Book in the Libby app.

Balloons for Papa
Bedia, Elizabeth Gilbert
Paper Book
A perfect book to help discuss mental health, depression, empathy, loss, and hope with young children. Arthur's gloomy father rushes him through the park every morning, through gray and rainy weather. Arthur just wants a bright balloon from the park's vendor, but Papa always...

Black and white illustrations with a burst of balloon color on each page show that even in the darkest of situations, love can bring light into our world. (Picture Book)

Where happiness begins
Eland, Eva
Paper Book
This follow-up to When Sadness Is at Your Door suggests that happiness can always be found by looking within. This helpful picture book is a great introduction to mindfulness and emotional literacy. A spare text and simple illustrations encourage readers to find happiness...

Happiness might not always be close by or easy to find, but we can find and create a caring community as we seek it out. (Picture Book)

Absolutely, positively Natty
Greenwald, Lisa
Paper Book
Natty deals with moving after her mom's departure by pulling a "Ted Lasso" and starting a pep squad in this standalone middle-grade novel about friendship and toxic positivity by the author of TBH and the Friendship List series. When Natty's mom kind of takes a break from her dad...

A young teen's positive attitude backfires when her obsessive focus on always being optimistic prevents her from facing difficult emotions. (Young Teen Fiction)

Perfect square
Hall, Michael
Paper Book
"A book that begs for reams of colored paper, rooms full of imaginative hands, and a whole lot of clapping and giggling."--Washington Post Michael Hall, the New York Times bestselling author of My Heart Is Like a Zoo and Red: A Crayon's Story, inspires creativity...

A perfect square is less than perfect after being crumpled and torn, but finds that it can still find happiness and purpose in its different shapes. (Picture book)

Grow happy
Lasser, Jon
Paper Book
My name is Kiko. I'm a gardener. I grow happy. Let me show you how. Kiko shows the reader how she grows happiness: by making good choices, taking care of her body and mind, paying attention to her feelings, problem solving, and spending time with family and friends. Kids will learn that...

This nonfiction picture book uses a garden as an analogy for one's personal well-being. By taking care of our minds and bodies, we can cultivate happiness and a healthy sense of self. (Picture Book)

A kids book about mental health
Lingras, Katie
Paper Book
It's important that we all learn to care for and nurture our mental health! This is a kids' book about mental health. Did you know it's something we all have? It's true! A person's mental health simply means how they understand their own thoughts, feelings, actions and...

Like our bodies, our minds all have a state of health. Sometimes our mental health good, and sometimes we struggle. This book helps kids and their grown ups to recognize and understand their own mental health. (Nonfiction)

Track star
Lyons, Kelly Starling
Paper Book
From the award-winning author of the Jada Jones chapter books comes an illustrated spinoff series perfect for STEM fans! The annual Fun Run is coming up at Brookside Elementary! The students will all run laps around the carpool lane, and Miles Lewis wants to be one of the top...

An elementary school student balances competitive drive with being a good teammate in this Miles Lewis story about training for a track meet.

Snow day
Quigley, Dawn
Paper Book
Oh, snow day, snow day, what a very fun no-school day! Jo Jo Makoons is back in the third book in this favorite chapter book series, and she's planning the very best version of the winter Olympics that her Ojibwe community has ever seen... Jo Jo Makoons has noticed that the family members...

Jo Jo Makoons wants to help her community be healthy in this hilarious beginning chapter book, perfect for fans of Junie B. Jones and Ramona Quimby. (Bridging Fiction)

Feelings are like farts
Willard, Christopher (Psychologist)
Paper Book
Feelings and farts are facts of life. We all have them! And we have to live with them, even when they're inconvenient, unpleasant, or surprising. They might come out of nowhere! It's definitely not a good idea to hold them in for too long. But among friends and...

How can you resist a title like this? Feelings and farts actually have a lot in common--and it's healthy to let them go sometimes! (Picture book)

Also available as an audiobook in the Libby app.

Elephants cannot dance!
Willems, Mo.
Paper Book
Mo Willems, award-winning, New York Times best-selling creator of The Pigeon, Knuffle Bunny, and Unlimited Squirrels, presents best friends Elephant Gerald and Piggie.   Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald...

Get up and move with Gerald & Piggie in this story about trying new things and having fun. (Early Reader)


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