As a parent, I watched my child face the same moments every child does — the lie they couldn't take back, the friend who left them out, the thing they almost quit right before they found out they were good at it.
I looked for a book that could open those conversations. Something honest, not preachy. Relatable, not generic.
When I couldn't find it, I wrote it.
When your child keeps saying I'll do it tomorrow — and suddenly it's too late.
When they lied, felt awful, and didn't know how to make it right.
When they gave up on something they used to love — ballet, chess, music — right before they would have broken through.
When they're the new kid and can't find their footing.
When a friendship got complicated and they came home quiet.
When they don't think they're good enough, smart enough, or brave enough — yet.
These 29 short stories don't lecture. They put a child in a situation they recognize and let them feel their way through it — so they come away feeling seen, understood, and a little braver.
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Read-aloud for little ones · Independent reading for TK–5 · Meaningful for middle school tooEarly reviews from families reading the brand-new Book 2 with their little ones (ages 4–7).
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Every session is rooted in the five CASEL SEL pillars and designed to spark real conversations children carry home long after the visit.
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Y.S. Moon is a parent, wife, engineer, and lifelong storyteller based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She believes that the right story at the right moment can shape a child's heart forever.
Her debut book was born from years of watching children — including her own — navigate big feelings, new friendships, and moments of self-doubt. She wanted to give them a mirror: stories where kids just like them found their footing and discovered their inner strength.
When she's not writing, Y.S. enjoys traveling the world with her family, cooking, and volunteering by hand-making greeting cards for children with cancer.
Kindness isn't just something she writes about.
These are the stories — written by a parent, for every child who's ever felt too much and said too little. Read the first one free.
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