CHILDREN'S BOOK SERIES
Evergreen Elementary.
The lessons life asks kids to learn, and school never gives them words for.
Kids run into real psychological challenges every day: a feeling too big to name, a falling-out with a best friend, a change nobody asked them about. Most children's books flatten those moments into tidy advice or skip them entirely, so the ideas that would help most never get taught.
Evergreen Elementary closes that gap. A class of animal characters meets each of those moments head-on, in stories drawn from child psychology and written for the age a child is ready for them. The goal is a series kids reach for on their own.
THE APPROACH
Research, made into stories kids want to read.
Every book starts from a concept developmental psychology says matters, then becomes a story with characters a child can see themselves in. The lesson runs through the whole narrative, with a few reflection questions at the end to help it stick.
Most of us pieced these skills together as adults, the hard way. Kids can learn them early, at the moment in their development when it can do the most good.
THE SERIES
The twelve books.
Each title takes one part of a child's inner life and makes it understandable. Together they form a developmental arc, from knowing yourself to understanding how everything connects.
- 01Self and Identity
- 02Friendships and Relationships
- 03Communication
- 04Feelings and Emotions
- 05Body and Physical Health
- 06Mental and Emotional Health
- 07Learning and Cognition
- 08Change, Uncertainty, and Resilience
- 09Decision Making, Behaviors, and Habits
- 10Systems, Patterns, and How Everything Connects
- 11Morality, Ethics, Rules, and Laws
- 12Life Cycle, Death, and Grief
EVERGREEN ELEMENTARY
Books that give kids a head start on their inner lives.
The series is in active development. If you're a parent, educator, or publisher who cares about this, I'd love to talk.