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WONDERING: FEELINGS, EMOTIONS AND BUILDING RESILIENCE

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Wondering collects questions from young school-aged children as they learn to cope with challenging emotions and feelings, understand themselves and others, and navigate the world around them. Children often bottle their emotions, and Wondering encourages them to open up and explore what they feel. Designed to help students feel empowered when they listen to their inner voice, Wondering gives children concrete answers from their peers and teachers to challenging emotional questions.

This book is an interactive experience for children, young adolescents and their families to read and discuss together. This is a perfect gift for parents looking to help their child build emotional intelligence and guide their growing independence. Wondering also provides a wonderful opportunity for grandparents to develop a deeper understanding of their grandchildren's lives, emotional needs and concerns. This powerful book equips children with valuable tools to express themselves and seek concrete solutions to the challenges they face day by day.

Bob’s work presents 100 questions asked by roughly 90 students ranging in age from 8 to 14 and the meaningful discourse created through this process. The above gallery is a collection of artwork from students in the Writers Matter program who helped create the dialogue within the book.

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For a sample reading of the first chapter, click here.

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Wondering Workshop

The Wondering Workshop is a great resource for teachers, families and students looking to find out more about the Wondering project. For more information, check out the document below or access the Wondering Workshop article in Bob’s blog, which can be found here.

REVIEWS

  • Wow, "Wondering" is a must read for your family bookshelves and student/classroom libraries. This interactive, worksheet-style book prompts and drives tough conversations, the ones you want to have with your children or students but often times don't know how to have them or where to start. We used the Q&A with our kids as prompts and then built upon the conversation using our kids' answers or the answers in the book. We learned about fears and doubts that our kids were having that we never realized were even on their radar. We would highly recommend this book as a tool to open your eyes to how your children think, feel and wonder.

    Philly’burbs - 5/5 Stars, Amazon

  • This interactive book gives a window to the wonderings of adolescents, their hopes and fears, problems and aspirations... What a wonderful gift for tweens and those who love them!

    H. Richman - 5/5 Stars, Amazon

  • This book is full of beautiful and extremely thoughtful ideas. I loved the questions, the art, the discussions, and the opportunity for the reader to respond in their own unique voice. It is a perfect recipe to support kids (and all of us) to open up and develop resilience.

    Kim - 5/5 Stars, Amazon

  • Just finished reading this book. Very insightful & inspiring! This book does a great job with opening up the door for conversation & dialogue.

    Anonymous - 5/5 Stars, Amazon

  • Parents can use the book at home as a tool to have open discussions about their child's social emotional well being. Wondering provides space for children to give their own feedback on topics with added features for written responses and illustrations. I highly recommend this amazing book!

    Anonymous - 5/5 Stars, Amazon