The ABC’s of Anger: Stories and Activities to Help Children Understand Anger. Ray Ali, illustrated by Eric Olsen, $21.95

Stories and charming illustrations help children identify the underlying reasons for feelings of anger and frustration and to find effective ways of dealing with those feelings.

Anger Management Games for Children. Deborah Plummer, $27.95

This practical handbook helps adults to understand, manage and reflect constructively on children's anger. Featuring a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games, it is designed to foster successful anger management strategies for children aged 5-12. The book covers the theory behind the games in accessible language, and includes a broad range of enjoyable activities: active and passive, verbal and non-verbal, and for different sized groups. The games address issues that might arise in age-specific situations such as sharing a toy or facing peer pressure. They also encourage children to approach their emotions as a way to facilitate personal growth and healthy relationships.

The Anger Workbook for Teens. Raychelle Cassada Lohmann, $17.95

Between family life and the pressures of school, there's no doubt that it's stressful being a teenager. But if you've noticed yourself beginning to take out your frustrations on the people you love most-your parents, brothers or sisters, and friends-it may be time to make a change. The Anger Workbook for Teens is designed to show you effective skills to help you deal with feelings of rage without losing it.

Angry Monster Workbook. Hennie Shore, $32.95 (Ages 5-12)

The Angry Monster Workbook contains dozens of activities to help children express themselves and learn ways to handle problems as they interact with others. Word searches, puzzles, drawings, mazes, and other activities are designed as therapeutic homework, to help children practice anger-control skills.

Angry Octopus: a Relaxation Story. Lori Lite, $16.50

This engaging story helps children learn progressive muscle relaxation – to quiet the ind, relax the body, let go of anger and pain, and fall asleep peacefully.

Anh's Anger. Gail Silver, illustrated by Christiane Krömer, $22.95

Anh, a five-year-old boy, comes to know his anger when they dance, play, sit and breathe together, actively creating a space for Anh to resolve an earlier conflict with his grandfather and understand the causes of a strong emotion. AHN'S ANGER is an engaging story that offers children and caregivers a mindfulness-based practice for dealing with anger and other difficult emotions.

Calming the Family Storm: Anger Management for Moms, Dads and All the Kids. Gary McKay & Steven Maybell, $18.95

Anger and confrontation are a part of our lives, like it or not. Every normal family will experience anger, but the reward for families that learn how to deal effectively with that anger is a healthier, happier family environment. Calming the Family Storm is a practical manual of helpful aids for handling the inevitable anger that every family experiences. Helps families work on the changes that will result in less anger, more effective expression of the anger that you do experience, and a happier and more harmonious family life.

Chillax! Marcella Marino Craver, illustrated by Amerigo Pinelli, $10.50 (graphic novel format)

How Ernie learns to chill out, relax and take charge of his anger.

Cool Down and Work Through Anger. Cheri Meiners, $13.50 (ages 4-8)

It’s never too early for children to learn to recognize feelings of anger and build skills for coping in helpful, appropriate ways. With a story, questions, activities, games and tips, this new book in the Learning to Get Along series helps reinforce important anger management skills in young children.

Every Time I Blow my Top I Lose My Head. Lawrence Shapiro & Laura Slap-Shelton, $21.95

A kid's guide to keeping cool under stress.

Fighting Invisible Tigers: Stress Management for Teens, 3rd Edition. Earl Hipp, $16.50

Proven, practical advice covers everything you need to know about stress management and life management, from coping with stress to being assertive, building supportive relationships, taking risks, making decisions, staying healthy, dealing with fears and misconceptions, recognizing perfectionism, using positive self-talk-even growing a funny bone.

Mad: How to Deal with Your Anger and Get Respect. James Crist, $15.95

Everyone gets angry sometimes. Feeling mad is a normal human emotion. But some teens go too far and get into trouble with their parents, their school, or the law. Their anger controls them and affects their lives in negative, sometimes long-lasting ways. This practical, supportive book helps teens understand and handle their anger. They learn whether they have an anger problem, why we get angry, and how anger affects our bodies and relationships. Practical tools and strategies help them control their anger and avoid poor decisions and actions; insights from real teens let them know they’re not alone. The final chapters explore mental health problems that can complicate anger management and the role of counseling and psychotherapy. Includes resources.

Moody Cow Meditates. Kerry Lee MacLean, $18.50

Moody Cow is having a terrible, angry day, until Grandfather teaches Moody Cow how to let go of angry thoughts and calm down.

The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids: Help for Children to Cope with Stress, Anxiety & Transitions. Lawrence Shapiro & Robin Sprague, $18.95; Professional edition (includes CD-ROM with workbook handouts) $18.95

Children pay close attention to their parents' moods. When parents feel upset, their kids may become anxious, and when parents wind down, children also get the chance to relax. When you feel overwhelmed and stressed, it can be hard to help your child feel balanced. The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids, written by two child therapists, offers more than fifty activities you can do together as a family to help you and your child replace stressful and anxious feelings with feelings of optimism, confidence and joy.

You'll learn proven relaxation techniques, including deep breathing, guided imagery, mindfulness, and yoga, and then receive guidance for teaching them to your child. Your child will also discover how taking time to do art and creative projects can create a sense of fulfillment and calm. By completing just one ten-minute activity from this workbook each day, you'll make relaxation a family habit that will stay with both you and your child for a lifetime.

Show Me Your MAD Face: Teaching Children to Feel Angry without Losing Control. Connie Schnoes, $17.50

Children get angry for many different reasons. Young children may throw tantrums when they are tired, frustrated, or unhappy. Teens may use anger to either get what they want or get out of doing something they don't like, such as homework or chores. Exhausted or frightened by frequent outbursts, parents often try to avoid doing or demanding anything of their children that might trigger their anger. 

Author Connie Schnoes, however, tells parents not to shield children from situations that make them angry. Instead, all children must learn that feeling angry at times is a normal emotion and there are appropriate ways to control and express anger without hurting themselves or others. Her book helps parents:

• Recognize angry behavior in children and act before it becomes a problem
• Understand a child who is often angry and learn what that anger might represent
• Teach children to stop using angry and aggressive behaviors and learn new, positive ways of behaving and expressing anger or frustration
• Know when it's a good idea to seek professional help for a child who is often angry

Using many examples from her clinical practice and her own family to highlight her helpful advice, Dr. Schnoes offers hope to parents worn out and worried by their children's explosive, angry behavior. 

Starving the Anger Gremlin: a Cognitive Therapy Workbook on Anger Management for Young People. Kate Collins-Donnelly, $19.95

Meet the anger gremlin: a troublesome pest whose favourite meal is your anger, and the more he eats the angrier you get! There's only one way to stop him: starve him of angry feelings and behaviours, and make him disappear.

This imaginative workbook shows young people how to starve their anger gremlin and control their anger effectively. Made up of engaging and fun activities, it helps them to understand why they get angry and how their anger affects themselves and others, and teaches them how to manage angry thoughts and behaviours. The tried-and-tested programme, based on effective cognitive behavioural therapy principles, can be worked through by a young person on their own or with a practitioner or parent, and is suitable for children and young people aged 10+.

STARVING THE ANGER GREMLIN is easy to read and fun to complete, and is an ideal anger management resource for those working with young people including counsellors, therapists, social workers and school counsellors, as well as parents.

Steps and Stones: an Anh's Anger Story. Gail Silver, illustrated by Christiane Krömer, $19.50

When Anh feels left out, a red hairy creature named Anger teaches him some valuable lessons about slowing down and taking care of his strong emotions. By counting his steps and coordinating them with his breath, Anh learns how walking meditation can ease his angry thoughts.

The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress. Gina Biegel, $18.95

First, the bad news: your teenage years are some of the most stressful of your life. Up to 70 percent of teens say they're stressed out, and with pressure about grades at school, parents who just don't seem to get it, and friends who drive you crazy, it's no wonder. Here's the good news! If you learn a few strategies for getting stress under control now, you'll have the skills you need to deal with problems and difficult feelings that life sends your way in high school and beyond.

The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens is a collection of thirty-seven simple workbook activities that will teach you to reduce your worries using a technique called mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way to be aware of your thoughts and feelings in the present moment. You can use mindfulness when you start to feel as though things are spinning out of control, so you can stop worrying about what might happen and focus instead on what's happening now.

Stress Relief for Kids: Taming Your Dragons. Martha Belknap, $21.95

These creative relaxation activities for use at home and school give children the tools to cope with stress and anxiety in all areas of their lives. This new book replaces both of Martha Belknap’s two popular books, “Taming Your Dragons” and “More Taming Your Dragons”. Also available: "Taming Your Dragons CD", $18.50, with 4 relaxtion scripts.

Taming the Dragon in Your Child-From Toddler to Teen: Solutions for Breaking the Cycle of Family Anger. Meg Eastman, with Sydney Craft Rozen, $19.99

Ten years in print—still one of the most comprehensive resources. Chapters on parenting style, problem-solving style, single-parent families, struggling families, child temperament, self-calming strategies, setting limits, anxious kids, impulsive kids, seeking professional help.

A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger
Eliane Whitehouse & Warwick Pudney. $14.95

A creative and effective approach to helping 6-15 year olds handle their anger so that they can live successfully, healthily, happily and nonviolently, with motivation, without fear and with good relationships. An accessible resource book for teachers, parents and all who care for children, it is full of stories, and easy-to-use games and exercises which are clearly described, indicating appropriate age levels, teaching strategies, materials and procedures to follow, with worksheets for the childrens' use.

What to Do When Your Temper Flares: a Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Problems with Anger. Dawn Huebner, $17.50 (ages 6 to 12)

What to Do When Your Temper Flares guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat problems with anger. This interactive self-help book uses engaging activities, illustrations and step-by-step instructions to help kids cool angry thoughts and control their actions.

What Your Explosive Child is Trying to Tell You: Discovering the Pathway from Symptoms to Solutions. Douglas Riley, $16.50

This compassionate, no-nonsense guide explains the most common causes of explosive behaviors and tailors strategies to address the underlying cause of the behavior.