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What's Inside Your Backpack?: Coping Skills For Kids Who Have Experienced Trauma (Your Magic Backpack) Paperback – Picture Book, February 4, 2021

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All around us, children are carrying backpacks that are heavy with more than just textbooks. Each day, they also bear the weight of difficult life experiences and intense feelings.

Zoey Harmon just wants to feel light-hearted and carefree. Unfortunately, she keeps getting weighed down by pesky "books" in her backpack, like Worry and Shame. Much to her surprise, she's not the only one! Zoey learns that the adults in her life deal with difficult feelings too! Luckily, they have some ideas that can help her set aside the books she's not meant to carry. Will it be enough to help her unload the heaviest book of all?

"You look a little worried, kiddo," Zoey's mom said, giving her a squeeze. "Sometimes I need a bright thought to help me when I'm feeling upset. Here, try this." She slid a bookmark into Zoey's hand. Zoey looked down and read: Imagine with Hope.

"What's this?" asked Zoey.

"When we don't know what to expect, worry wants us to imagine with fear, to think about all the worst possibilities. This is a little reminder I use to think of the good things that might happen when I imagine with hope instead."

While there are no quick fixes for all of life's complex problems, What's Inside Your Backpack? highlights some of the ways we can nurture resilience in body and mind. Using the metaphor of books and bookmarks, author Jessica Sinarski offers gentle, effective strategies to help children impacted by trauma. By sharing their burdens with people they trust, kids can lighten their load and realize just how strong and courageous they really are!

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  6. Publisher
    National Center for Youth Issues
  7. Publication date
    February 4, 2021
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This straight-forward story arms parents and educators with a tool for talking with children about the heavy feelings they're carrying. It's an incredibly timely book that's so relatable, which means it's bound to help start important conversations of hope and healing for many. --Julie Beem - Executive Director, Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc.

I am impressed with Jessica's ability to talk about tough subjects in a way that is safe for our students to explore. I especially love how she acknowledges the impact that worry and fear can have on our ability to regulate. Teaching our youth early how to attune to their bodies and their regulation and to learn helpful ways to manage the stress associated with their experiences is a powerful tool! What a great resource for parents and educators. --Kristin Souers, Co-Author of "Fostering Resilient Learners"

What's Inside Your Backpack? is a short, easy read which provides creative and practical tools to help young children counteract those "big feelings" which are often encountered through life's many difficult transitions. It's colorful, offers wide-ranging diversity, and feels inclusive of all. It's a simple storybook that will undoubtedly help parents, educators and others to support children, who have experienced trauma, in achieving a sense of hope and healing! --Atasha Kelley-Harris, M.Ed., CFLE, LCPAA, National Director of Family Advocacy, ATTACh

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Jessica Sinarski, LPCMH equips parents and professionals to be healers for hurting children. Weaving user-friendly brain science into everything she does, Jessica ignites both passion and know-how in audiences. Extensive post-graduate training and 15+ years as a clinician, consultant, and parent educator led her to create BraveBrains, a resource and training platform for home, school, and community. She is also the author of the Riley the Brave picture books.

Jessica partners with school districts and child welfare agencies across the country to better incorporate effective trauma-sensitive practices into their work. She also shares her expertise as a contributor to magazines, blogs, and podcasts. When not writing and training, she continues to work as a bilingual therapist and clinical supervisor at an innovative adoption support agency. Jessica lives in Delaware with her husband and three busy boys.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ National Center for Youth Issues (February 4, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 32 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1953945236
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1953945235
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 6 - 10 years, from customers
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 3 - 4
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 0.5 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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  1. Joanne Lew-Vriethoff

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    Joanne is the award-winning illustrator of such books as Beautiful, Brave, Love and Hilde Cracks the Case series, Another Day as Emily and The Dancing Pancake by Eileen Spinelli and Peace, Baby! by Linda Ashman. She lives in Amsterdam with her family.

    Now we are done with all the formality, let's get to the good stuff. I was born in Malaysia but grew up in Los Angeles. I've had all kinds of adventures, good, bad and the crazy and it had a big influence in my art since I was a very young kid. I love traveling and going to new places. Luckily I have a family who loves it just as much as I do. I am terrible at cooking but I love to eat and luckily my husband is a great cook. Photography, hiking in the mountains and being in nature are my favorite things to do. .

    My favorite mediums are pen and pencil. I don't like using sketch books because it makes me feel confined to a space. Which also means, my house is full of loose sketches everywhere. I mean everywhere. My children are my greatest pride . Usually I don't talk this much because I'm an introvert but I think it's okay to share just a little bit of myself with the moms, dads and kids out there.

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    Jessica Sinarski

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    Jessica Sinarski, LPCMH is an author, speaker, and instigator of hope. Weaving user-friendly brain science into everything she does, Jessica ignites both passion and know-how in audiences. Extensive post-graduate training and 15+ years as a clinician and educator led her to create the resource and training platform–BraveBrains. She partners with school districts and child welfare agencies around the world to unlock resilience in children and adults alike. 

    Jessica makes social emotional learning (SEL) practical, equipping parents and professionals with deeply trauma-informed tools. She is the author of numerous books including, Your Amazing Brain, the award-winning Riley the Brave series, and Light Up the Learning Brain. She also shares her expertise as a contributor to magazines, blogs, and podcasts. Jessica lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and three busy boys.

    Jessica was awarded the national Voice for Adoption Drenda Lakin Memorial Award in 2021 in recognition of her valuable post-placement support and services to families who have achieved permanence for children in the child welfare system. Compelled by her work with foster, adoptive, and kinship families in the South Bronx of New York, Jessica became a Certified Adoption Therapist in 2008 through Hunter College School of Social Work and began an adoption therapy program at her local agency. She earned a master’s degree from Boston College in Counseling Psychology following a B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from Taylor University.

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There are many sources of stress kids may have as they start a new school year – grades, bullies, separation from parents, problems at home.  Whether small or big, their fears can really weigh them down.  What’s Inside Your Backpack? uses books as a metaphor for these worries and bookmarks as the tools kids can use to deal with them. Zoey Harman is dealing serious issues at home, but the adults in her life help her work through them through this idea of books and bookmarks. This book would be especially helpful for children who are dealing with trauma, but the exercise of imagining fears as heavy books is applicable to anyone, and there are tips in the back of the book for how adults can help children visualize the “books” they are carrying and create “bookmarks” to work through their difficult feelings.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book will resonate with everyone
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Who should get this book? Everyone. When? Now. This book is a must have for teachers, parents, counselors, therapists and social workers to help kiddos (and themselves) with big feelings. It’s packed with easy to remember coping strategies when life is heavy. I was hooked from the start “it seemed like just when she started to feel comfortable, something always changed.”
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5.0 out of 5 stars Help with big, heavy feelings...
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2021
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Immensely important book for anyone living or working with children who have experienced trauma. Offers both kids and caregivers words and story to help them understand their own heavy, often confusing emotions. The story also provides practical, simple tools to help all readers learn to manage big feelings. Excellent afterword too...you don’t want to miss it!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful resource for parents, educators, clinicians, and anyone working with children
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2021
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I love this book! What an ingenious metaphor for the big emotions kids have to struggle with every day. I thought it was such a useful resource that I ordered a copy, along with Jessica Sinarski's other book Riley the Brave, for my cousin who is a child psychologist,. This author gets it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Emotional Baggage Illustrated for kids
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Powerful kids’ picture book that shows the emotional baggage we all carry around. I love the idea of bright thoughts bookmarks to help cope/manage the weight.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource
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What's inside your backpack is a great book to use with children in schools, mental health setting, etc. I would buy again!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Do you know a child who carries a heavy load?
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Such a sweet book about some big, sad feelings. I believe this will be so helpful to many children and adults. Five put of five stars.
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Meg G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing resource!
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This book provides a framework for kids and adults to discuss tough experiences and big feelings. I love having new language to use in these hard conversations!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for SEL
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2022
Zoey just wants to feel light-hearted and carefree, but she keeps getting weighed down by “books" in her backpack, like Worry and Shame. Zoey learns that the adults in her life deal with difficult feelings too, and they have some ideas that can help her set aside the books she's not meant to carry. Will it be enough to help her unload the heaviest book of all?⁣
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All around us, children are carrying backpacks that are heavy with more than just textbooks. Each day, they also bear the weight of difficult life experiences and intense feelings. This book offers strategies to help children impacted by trauma. By sharing their burdens with people they trust, kids can lighten their load and realize how strong they really are
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