
Picture Books about Overcoming Challenges with Resilience
Resilience helps us power through or bounce back from challenging circumstances. By reading picture books about resilience and overcoming challenges, your students will see characters dealing with setbacks and not giving up when things get tough.

Why Use Picture Books about Resilience in the Classroom?
We all experience difficult times, but it is how we deal with them that tells us how resilient we are and helps us cope with challenges in the future. Resilience varies greatly from person to person. Just because one child breezes through a challenge doesn’t mean another will.
Reading books about overcoming challenges to your students will let them see characters in difficult situations and using different strategies to push through them. They are great discussion starters for you to use to bring up the benefits of being resilient, including:
- managing emotions appropriately
- asking for help when needed
- using judgement to change tack in difficult situations
- having a positive mindset
- expressing ideas and opinions confidently
- reflecting on their behaviour and strengths
- listening attentively and following instructions
- working cooperatively, sharing and taking turns
- understanding why they feel frustrated.
FREE Graphic Organizers for After the Fall
Before you check out the picture books about resilience below, I have made a pack of graphic organisers and activities to use with After the Fall by Dan Santat. This is a great book to use when teaching resilience and a growth mindset.
I have a freebie that is part of this larger resource so you can try it out before buying anything!
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Picture Books about Resilience
These children’s books about overcoming challenges show different characters responding to knock-backs and ultimately triumphing.

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What Next?
Check out these short videos on resilience. You may find them useful to use in your classroom.
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