P3 Booklists

PHASE 3 - IMPLEMENTING TEACHING TOOLS AND RESOURCES
Booklists: help with choosing empathy-rich books 


Every year EmpathyLab works with the publishing industry and an expert panel to choose a very diverse, contemporary Read For Empathy book collection. This covers Early Years to top KS3 including picture books, graphic novels, poetry and novels. 

Each collection comes with a Guide you can use to pick books for particular areas of empathy work, and also give to families. 


We use these criteria for empathy-rich books

Try using them to choose suitable books 


  • General/overall: high quality writing/illustrations with expertly crafted characters which readers care about. Book helps explore characters’ feelings and motivations


  • Challenges tribal thinking: book explores themes about building understanding between individuals and communities


  • Supports development of key empathy skills: perspective-taking (e.g. through different characters’ points of view); emotion recognition/vocabulary; active listening; ability to put empathy into action


  • Tackles key empathy issues of the day: e.g. refugees, homelessness, loneliness


  • Provides insight into other challenging life circumstance: e.g. bereavement; mental illness; disability



For other Booklists, see resources below.

TOPIC RESOURCES

Below you will find a range of themed Booklists but we can create others on request

Topic based lists
Emotion based lists


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