Childrens Books on Self Control
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