Big FeelingsAges 3–8
My Big Feelings
Helps kids recognize, express, and understand their emotions.
$12.99
Picture books for ages 3–8
What matters most to your child right now?
Find the story for this moment.
Stories for growing minds. Conversations for growing confidence.
The right story can open a conversation a child may not know how to start.
“Sometimes children don't need another lecture. Sometimes they need the right story at the right moment.”
Tasana Scales, founder of KidMotivation
Start with what they're facing
Every KidMotivation book is built around a real moment in a child's life — and gives grown-ups a way in.
Big Feelings
Name it, feel it, move through it — emotional language kids can use.
ExploreHealthy Choices
Fruits, veggies, and everyday habits that feel like play, not pressure.
ExploreBullying & Kindness
Courage, respect, and the words to speak up for themselves and others.
ExploreConfidence & Individuality
Being different isn't a problem to fix — it's the point.
ExploreStory Finder
Find the Story for This Moment
Tell us what's happening in your child's world right now. We'll point you to the book that opens the conversation.
Pick a moment to begin
Sometimes children don't need another lecture. Sometimes they need the right story at the right moment.
The KidMotivation Collection
Four picture books, each one a doorway to a conversation worth having.
Healthy ChoicesAges 3–8
Let's Have a Fruity Good Time with Veggies
Makes healthy choices, fruits, and vegetables genuinely fun.
$12.99
Bullying & KindnessAges 3–8
No Bully Zone: Stop Bullying
Encourages kindness, courage, respect, confidence, and speaking up.
$12.99
Confidence & IndividualityAges 3–8
Uniquely Different
Inspires children to embrace individuality and celebrate what makes them unique.
$12.99
Best Value
The Complete KidMotivation 4-Book Collection
Four meaningful stories for the moments that matter most. Help children understand big feelings, make healthy choices, stand up to bullying, and celebrate what makes them uniquely themselves.
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Stories With a Purpose
Every page is written to be talked about
KidMotivation books are short enough for a bedtime read and deep enough for a real conversation. They don't moralize — they open the door, then hand the grown-up the questions that keep it open.
- Conversation-firstEach book ends with prompts that turn story time into talk time.
- Moment-matchedWritten around the specific challenges kids ages 3–8 actually meet.
- Classroom-readyRead-aloud friendly, with themes that map to social-emotional learning.
Big emotions & meltdowns
Anger, worry, sadness, or feelings that come out sideways.
Healthy eating & choices
Picky eating, fruits and veggies, everyday healthy habits.
Bullying, teasing & unkindness
Being picked on, watching it happen, or being the one who did it.
Confidence & feeling different
Comparison, fitting in, self-doubt, standing out.
More Than a Book
Resources for parents, grandparents, and educators
Free discussion guides, classroom activities, and question cards designed to help the adults in a child's life keep the conversation going long after the last page.
Explore resourcesDiscussion guides
Four to six prompts per book, written for real conversations.
Classroom activities
Simple, low-prep ideas for circle time and small groups.
Read-aloud tips
How to pause, ask, and listen without turning it into a lesson.
Home routines
Ways to weave the themes into dinner, bedtime, and car rides.
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Tasana Scales
Author · Founder of KidMotivation
Meet the Author
Meet Tasana Scales
Tasana Scales is a children's author, the founder and creator of KidMotivation, a pharmacist with more than 20 years of experience, and a mother of three adult children. She writes the books she wished she'd had on the hard days — the ones that help parents, grandparents, teachers, and educators begin meaningful conversations with the children they love.
Two decades of caring for families taught her that health, confidence, and kindness all start with being understood. That belief lives on every page of KidMotivation.
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