Do you remember being a child and having a teacher, parent or grandparent read you a story? Or maybe like me, your parents and grandparents shared stories with you about their life and upbringing. Children love listening to stories and being absorbed in the journey of the characters. As a teacher, I realized that storytelling was one of the most effective and enjoyable ways to reach children, so, I began incorporating more of it into my teaching day, including occasionally sharing some of my own personal stories with them. It was a gamechanger. I knew this was one of the best ways to spark conversations with kids on social and emotional topics and to teach about character. And that's how the Light Giver books came to fruition.

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     The Light Giver and Other Stories to Raise Emotionally Heathy Children, is a collection of twenty-two beautifully illustrated children’s stories that help promote Social and Emotional Learning and Character Development. Each story addresses one core value, or life lesson, but touches upon others as well. They can be read to children as young as five and enjoyed by kids up to the age of twelve. The majority of the stories center on children, and address difficulties and real-life challenges they face. Discussion questions and a helpful list of vocabulary words are included with each story. The Light Giver Stories Workbook, is a companion book that offers supplementary activities, lessons or discussions to further support the topics found in each story. Both were intentionally designed to be easy enough for anyone to use. In fact, the lessons and activities can be practically read to children verbatim and require very little or no preparation at all.

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For a complete list of topics addressed in the stories & lessons scroll to the bottom of the page. Watch a few of our videos featuring story readings and lessons from the Light Giver Stories Books below.