Kathy Iorio-Snow
Kusa Gets Her Mad Out!
A practical, low-stakes tool for teaching kids how to name and process anger without shaming them.
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Have You Seen Tom Thumb?
by Mabel Leigh Hunt
Picture book · ages 4–8 · 400L · 1942
A gentler, less frenetic retelling of the classic — warm illustrations and a genuinely kind-hearted Tom make this a natural for reading aloud with 5–6-year-olds, though the age-old anxiety about being lost carries light peril.
A First Time for Everything
by Dan Santat
Picture book · ages 4–8 · 500L · 2023
Santat's warmest work — a validation for shy kids that doing things scared is normal, and that friendship makes it easier; read-aloud gold for ages 5–7.
Nana, Nenek & Nina
by Liza Ferneyhough
Picture book · ages 4–8 · 450L · 2022
A genuinely multicultural family story that avoids both exoticizing and flattening—Nina's two grandmothers feel like people, not cultural props, and the art quietly celebrates the everyday texture of a blended household.