#Gearpicks Reading Power 2022

Connect

Don't Hug Doug (He Doesn't Like It) - Carrie Finison

On the Trapline-David A. Robertson

Watercress-Andrea Wang

A Walk in the Words by Hudson Talbott

What Does it Mean to Be Brave? by Kelly Shuto

Connecting to Feelings

I’m Worried – Michael Ian Black

The Don’t Worry Book – Todd Parr

When You Are Brave – Pat Zietlow Miller

When You're Scared - Andrée Poulin

When Sadness is at Your Door – Eva Eland (also Transform)

Today I Feel – An Alphabet of Feelings – Madalena Moniz

Visualize

My Forest is Green – Darren Lebeuf

A Walk Through the Woods – Louise Greig

The Hideout – Susanna Mattiangeli

How to Read a Book – Kwame Alexander

Moon Wishes – Patricia Storms

Run Wild – David Covell

Question

Noodlephant – Jacob Kramer

The Girl and the Wolf – Katherena Vermette

The Rough Patch – Brian Lies

Little Doctor and the Fearless Beast - Sophie Gilmore

Little Brown – Marla Frazee

Lubna and Pebble – Wendy Meddour

Why? – Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Infer

Another – Christian Robinson

Bear Came Along – Richard T. Morris

Seagull & Sea Dragon – Sydni Gregg

Found – Jeff Newman

Mine. Yours. – Marsha Diane Arnold

The Wall in the Middle of the Book – Jon Agee

Transform

Ojiichan's Gift - Chieri Uegaki

Mr. Pack Rat Really Wants That – Marcus Ewert (material things do not = happiness)

Say Something! – Peter H. Reynolds

Maybe Tomorrow? – Charlotte Agell (grief)

The Undefeated – Kwame Alexander

All the Ways to be Smart – Davina Bell

My Heart – Corinna Luyken

Carl and the Meaning of Life- Deborah Freedman

What is Given From the Heart – Patricia C. McKissack