National Read Across America Day: 3/2/2026

Today is National Read Across America Day! To celebrate this day we want to share an excellent article on Child Mind’s Website. They have compiled a list of great resources around books about children’s mental health, in their article, “77 Children’s Books About Mental Health” by Karen Cicero.

77 Children’s Books About Mental Health

Best books for helping kids understand emotional and learning challenges

From a hedgehog too anxious to go ice skating to a puppy who can’t make his letters come out right, children’s books address many emotional, behavioral and learning challenges kids face. These books help kids name and understand feelings and experiences they may be struggling with. At the Child Mind Institute we’ve contacted publishers all over to call in popular children’s books about mental health and learning disorders and other common challenges, like dealing with painful experiences and coping with strong emotions. We included books for kids up to 12, from picture books to be read with preschoolers to chapter books for independent reading by older children. Our clinicians read them all and picked the best in each category, based on how helpful they found them. Here you will see descriptions of 77 books we like, and we hope you will find useful.