Add Award-Winning Children’s Books to Your Holiday List

With Black Friday this week, many parents are searching for the perfect gifts for their children. Toys and books are a great way to celebrate this joyful season, and Housman Institute Founder, Dr. Donna Housman, recently had one of her six ECSELent Adventures children’s books featured in the New York Post’s “32 best Christmas gifts and toys for 4-year-old boys and girls in 2024.”

Dr. Housman’s award-winning children’s book series provides an easy, safe, and fun way to address challenging emotions and situations through storytelling. There’s no better gift than supporting your child’s development of emotional competence.

The six-book bundle is on sale this Black Friday, and you can purchase all six books for just $90 with free shipping. The books included in the bundle are:

This bundle includes:

• Gilly and the Garden - a book about grief, loss and death 
• Theo’s Deliciously Different Dumplings - a book about diversity, inclusion and bullying
• The Ottersons’ Eruption - a book about anger management
• Riley’s Really BIG Worries - a book about worry, fear, illness and anxiety management
• Franklin’s World Takes a Turn - a book about transition and changes
• Shemmy’s Wild Ride - a book about autonomy and confidence

Each book includes Reader Tips & Guided Questions to help caregivers engage in meaningful conversations and support children’s development of emotional intelligence skills. 

Click here to purchase the 6-book series today!

ABOUT DR. DONNA HOUSMAN

Dr. Donna Housman has spent her professional career in the world of early childhood development and education. Believing that it is far easier to prevent than repair, Dr. Housman founded Housman Institute, along with its lab school and early childhood development center, based on emotional foundations of learning and cognition and informed by research in neuroscience, child development, and early education. Seizing the opportunity to inform the architecture of the brain in the earliest years, her Emotional, Cognitive, and Social Early Learning (ECSEL) approach promotes healthy brain development and a positive sense of self by fostering the building blocks of emotional intelligence starting from birth.

Dr. Housman has trained thousands of early childhood educators, children, and families in her ECSEL approach while being a consistent source of vital counsel and guidance for families and educators on young children’s social and emotional development.