This is a collection of guidance material for teens about mental health and substance abuse from the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration including the contents detailed below. If you or a teen you know may have any of these issues make sure they are aware of the information and that there is help out …

This is the Irish Edition of Always Be Nice – 10 Lessons in Kindness, part of a series of 5 books, all the books in the series are available here: https://freekidsbooks.org/tag/be-nice/  

This wonderful guide on emotions for elementary age children can help children improve emotional intelligence as they connect with different emotions through worksheets, colouring, dialogue, and exercises. Eaach emotion is identified with a different member of the Mood Crew so children can identify better. Once children learn when they are feeling certain emotions they can …

Don’t be a Bully is a short simple book for young children, and beginner ESL readers, promoting values of anti-bullying and anti-discrimination. This book teaches children ten important life lessons about values and the importance of treating everyone equal, no matter what race, religion, gender, or abilities. There are exercises supporting the topics at the …

Baby Thangwang and Bhalluka the Bear are best friends. They like to talk and growl together,  This cute short story has lots of sound words for early readers to practice sounding out or to have fun sounding out when reading to a toddler / kindergartener. Sample Page – Thangwang and Bhalluka Baby Thangwang likes to …

Psychedelic seal is not like all the others – he doesn’t blend in like the other seals, not only is he in danger to the world at large, he gets teased by the other seal pups. Learn about how psychedelic seal learns to triumph in spite of his differences and even because of them in …

Doing your chores is sometimes hard, see how this child makes it fun and rewarding. A free book by MonkeyPen – where you can order personalised books of your child! See more books by MonkeyPen here on FKB. See more books on Behaviour here on FKB.   Read along with the video of this book, …

Two young sisters go on an adventure and find more than they planned. The Golden Flower – Sample Text Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived two sisters named Ariana and Nicoletta. Ariana was the older sister, always taking charge and making sure they stayed out of trouble. Nicoletta, on the …

Celeste gets more than she bargained for in the move to Cripley Hollow – with magic, an imp named Grumblemunch who loves cookies, and Professor Prettypaws, an eloquent tabby.

Another beautiful volume of Haiku set to beautiful art from Gabriel Rosenstock. Very suitable for older children or school studies. Each poem in this thought provoking poetry anthology contains a stunning public domain artwork or image.  Gabriel Rosenstock See more from Gabriel Rosenstock on FKB   For more about Haiku, see here: https://vcbf.ca/event/about-haiku/. It is …