Most of the books on this list are situational books that will lead to

discussion of how self control was used or could have been used.

Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman

Angry by Susan Riley

Baby Blue Cat Who Said No by Ainslie Pryor

Berenstein Bears andthe Bad Habit by Stan andJan Berenstein

Berenstein Bears Get the Gimmies by Stan andJan Berenstein

The Best Prize of All by Mark Taylor

Book of Virtues by William Bennett (pages 525-595)

Brave Irene by William Steig

Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt by Jean Fritz

Children’s Book of Virtues by William Bennett (pages 9-20)

The Crow andthe Pitcher by Aesop

Dinah’s Mad, Bad Wishes by Barbara Joose

Don’t Pop Your Cork on Mondays by Adolph Moser

Dottie by Peta Coplans

A Drop of Honey by Djemma Bider

Feeling Angry by Rochelle Barsuhn

Grandmother Five Baskets by Lisa Larrabee

The Grasshopper andthe Ants

Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

Hercules andthe Wagoner by Aesop

Hip Cat by Jonathan London

How I Feel by June Behrens

I Have a Dream: Story of Martin Luther King by Margaret Davidson

Impossible Possum by Ellen Conford

Katharine’s Doll by Elizabeth Winthrop

The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Mike Mulligan andHis Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

My Bike by Donna Jakob

PigWill andPigWon’t by Richard Scary

The Quitting Deal by Tobi Tobias

The Rag Coat by Lauren Nils

Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

Self Control by Henrietta Gambell

Self Control by Carole MacKenthun

Sometimes It’s Up by Ruth Carlsen

Spinky Sulks by William Steig

Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans C. Andersen

Stella andRoy by Ashley Wolff

Supergrandpa by David Schwartz

Sugar Gum Tree by Patricia Wrightson

Sweet Notes, Sour Notes by Nancy Levinson

The Temper Tantrum Book by Edna Preston

Terrible Fight by St. Sharon St. Germain

Tom andthe Two Handles by Hoban Russell

The Tortoise andthe Hare by Aesop

Tough Loser by Barthe De Clements

Tye May andthe Magic Brush by Molly Bang

Uglypuss by Caroline Gregoire

Wizard’s Hall by Jane Yolen

– Gene Bedley