Books for Children Experiencing Anxiety

Expressing Feelings

• How to take the Grr out of Anger by Elizabeth Verdick & Marjorie Lisovskis
• What to do when you Dread your Bed: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Problems with Sleep by Dawn Huebner
• What to do when You’re Scared and Worried by James Crist
• What to do when your Temper Flares: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Problems with Anger by Dawn Huebner
• Zach gets Frustrated by William Mulcahy

Separation Anxiety

• The Invisible String by Patrice Karst
• The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
• What to do when you Worry too much: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety (What to do Guides for Kids) by Dawn Huebner & Bonnie Matthews
• When I Miss You by Cornelia Spelman
• Wilma Jean the Worry Machine by Julia Cook & Anita DuFalla

Toileting

• Even Princesses Poop by Thomas Nelson
• I Can’t, I Won’t, No Way!: A Book for Children who Refuse to Poop by Tracey J. Vessillo
• It Hurts when I Poop! A Story for Children who are Scared to use the Potty by Howard J. Bennett, M.D.
• The Saddest Toilet in the World by Sam Apple