Reddit mentions: The best manners books for children

What are they interested in? Any particular favorite themes?

They might enjoy Even Superheroes Have Bad Days and the sequel that just came out, Even Superheroes Make Mistakes. I've also heard good things about Spark and the other books in the Tiny Tails series (more allegorical, about mythical animals learning to control their powers).

In terms of more didactic books about feelings, there are tons of good ones out there - The Color Monster, The Way I Feel, My Many Colored Days, and The Feelings Book are all nice simple choices to start with. I also love Visiting Feelings and the very silly How Are You Peeling?. Anh's Anger and My Magic Breath are about specific strategies for coping with big feelings. If they're fans of the Daniel Tiger TV show, there are a number of Daniel books about feelings such as How is Daniel Feeling?, I'm Feeling Mad, etc. You might also check out How to Be a Superhero Called Self-Control, which is not a picture book but sort of a handbook of emotional strategies for young kids framed as superpowers.

In terms of verbal requests more generally, if they're fans of Mo Willams definitely check out Time to Say Please and Crunch: The Shy Dinosaur. Goodbye Friend, Hello Friend might be another good one (though it just came out so I haven't actually read it yet). You might also check out the series by Elizabeth Crary which are sort of like choose-your-own-adventure social stories (kids get to decide how to respond to social situations and flip to the appropriate page to continue the story), such as I Want It or I Can't Wait. Not the most exciting stories, but kids seem to be intrigued by having the ability to change the ending. I keep waiting for someone to write a newer version, but haven't found anything else quite like them...

Anyway hope something in there is helpful! :)

Board books :

• Bright Baby series by Roger Priddy is the best set of "first books" / "learn words" books. Animals (yellow book), colors (pink) are two of the best.
  
• Leslie Patricelli: Baby Happy Baby Sad No No Yes Yes and yummy yucky, huggy kissy are also good. (note, do not just read the words, use them for discussion of the pictures)
  
• guess how much I love you
  
• [Barnyard Dance!] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563054426/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_sUXKzbXMP2DV2) and others by Sandra Boynton
  
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret wise brown
  
  Picture books:
  
  
• Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site (also, the train book is lame, skip it)
  
• mommy do you love me by Jeanne Willis
  
• The Maggie b by Irene haas
  
• [tough chicks] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003V4B4TI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_eyXKzbV4CF825) by cece meng
  
• sweet briar goes to school (and goes to camp) by karma wilson
  
• [Move It!: Motion, Forces and You] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1553377591/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_6IXKzbJ00G260)
  
  Early readers:
  
  
• Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems (bird on your head, broke my trunk, play the trumpet are faves)
  
• Mr Putter and Tabby series by Ryland (faves are paint the porch, feed the fish, run the race)
  
• Harry the Dirty Dog
  
• Ready-Set-Grow series by Joy Wilt Berry (eg Mine and Yours: A Children's Book About Rights and Responsibilities ) are the most impactful series of books I have ever encountered. They cover emotional and social issues and life skills in a simple, clear way with silly illustrations, and were the major contributors to my emotional maturity.
  
  Chapter books to read together in early elementary:
  
  
• The first three little house books: little house in the big woods, little house on the prairie, farmer boy. Should be read together to discuss issues like racial prejudice/native American displacement, and discipline in the 1800s, but they are super valuable books to understanding how pioneers and farmers lived. The later books are for more mature kids, due to the hardships the family goes through.
  
• EB White books : Charlotte's web, trumpet of the swan
  
  Chapter books for later elementary or middle school:
  
  
• in general, Newbury award books
  
• Island of the blue dolphins
  
• The slave dancer
  
• my side of the mountain (high reading level due to archaic style)
  
• The False Prince Jennifer Nielsen
  
• The Shamer's Daughter series by Lene Kaaberbol is a great series to use for thinking about compassion and responsibility for those we care about, how guilt and shame require the guilty person to agree with an assessment that their actions were wrong; truth, lies, and stories; assumptions and false accusations; and other ways in which right and wrong may be determined.... But it is a very exciting and compelling story. It does have some cursing (damn, hell) and abusive behavior (brother beating and calling his tween sister a whore, evil ruler locking people up and feeding to a dragon), so check for maturity. But it is an absolutely amazing series that I can not recommend enough.
  
  Am posting on phone so will be submitting and editing. This will be a long post.

You do know that a substantial portion of the population (both men and women) are perfectly happy to follow archaic gender roles right? If that is the majority of the time you hear the word then I feel bad for you.

Also, for my 17th birthday my grandfather got me a book 50 Things Every Young Gentleman Should Know (I may have been a little old, but it sure had a lot of good advice) and what it boiled down to was a combination of good manners and proper upkeep of articles of clothing such as suits and shoes. In fact, the only specific thing about women I remember from the book was proper respect for family, especially your mother. Young men naturally tend to pull away from their mothers, so a reminder such as that is prudent.

Roll with it. Embrace the humor. The first class of every week do one of the following:

• Put a big bottle of Beano on your desk
  
• Bring in a bottle of Febreeze
  
• Be reading a copy of The Fart Book before class
  
• Get an awesome fart t-shirt like "I fart, what's your superpower?" or "Work Hard, Play Hard, Fart Hard"
  
• etc.
  
  Better to be the funny guy than the shy, quiet except when he farts guy.

> All he needs is a good apology and everything is forgiven?

Well...you begin with the apology and then the victims decide if it is forgiven. Very straightforward process. It is taught in pre-school if not before then. Here is a source for your review

Here's my anecdote: I never wanted to have dolls or be a princess, and I always loved legos, Erector sets, toy soldiers, and Hot Wheels cars. For some reason, I never seemed to want dolls. /shrug.

EDIT: I actually had an aunt who kept trying to "fix" me by giving me "girly" things -- I remember a book called "White Gloves and Party Manners" (this was the 1970's) she gave me for my birthday -- rarely has a present pissed me off more.

DOUBLE EDIT: Holy shit, you can still buy WGaPM: http://www.amazon.com/White-Gloves-Manners-Marjabelle-Stewart/dp/0883310546 -- does this ever bring me back to my baseball-playing Hot-Wheels-driving this-book-fucking-HATING youth!

When i was a kid i read this book called If Everybody Did

it's all about thinking for yourself and a bit about conservation through a cause and effect story telling style.

Fucking excellent, still available of course.

You could start by teaching about human virtues. Mine Your Inner Gems could be a starting point. That link to Amazon also has several other books aimed at children with different religious and non-religious slants.

Enjoy : https://www.amazon.com/Manners-Table-Way-Be/dp/1404835539/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1510265260&sr=8-4

This reminded me of a favorite book as a kid, No More Jumping on the Bed

They all want somebody else to do it for them. They want to be ruled and they don't care by whom (Islam in many cases). They want to take no responsibility for their actions. They want a scapegoat. They want someone else to pick up the tab. They want to give it all away. They want America's welfare check every month. And above all else, they want to tell us what to do and how to do it.

There's a good book I used to read to my toddler that I think would be of value to most of Europe, Canadian Castro and all the sjw babies around the globe.

It's called, "You Get What You Get And You Don't Throw A Fit"

amazon.com/You-Get-What-Little-Boost/dp/1479521574

Spez: added link

There was I book I read as a child called "if everybody did." Made a huge impact on my world view even when I was young. Should be required reading IMO.

https://www.amazon.com/If-Everybody-Did-Ann-Stover/dp/0890844879/ref=asc_df_0890844879/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312087669297&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11627249860805060059&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9002292&hvtargid=aud-829758849484:pla-597819650524&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Learns-Wait-patience-Preschool-ebook/dp/B07CK4Q6C2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=B07CK4Q6C2&qid=&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

Apparently it's a kid's book: https://smile.amazon.com/You-Get-What-Little-Boost-ebook/dp/B00ESEEEMO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1538668567&sr=8-2&keywords=you+get+what+you+get&dpID=51X9u6mzxRL&preST=_SX342_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

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I just learned about it from another comment!

https://www.amazon.com/Hello-Delias-Manners-Their-Grownups/dp/1101983078/

Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grownups


Example Page: https://lmlifestyledesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/do-i-have-to-say-hello-excerpt-c.jpg


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But you would probably have seen the 1989 edition, not the new 2015 edition:
https://www.abebooks.com/9780670828555/Say-Hello-Aunt-Delias-Manners-0670828556/plp

Was it maybe the Thingamajigs?

https://www.amazon.com/Thingumajig-Book-Manners-Irene-Keller/dp/0824965906

Found it.

I had this one in the mid 90s : http://www.amazon.com/Pass-Peas-Please-Book-Manners/dp/0737301937

its a book...

Sherlock Chick and the Peekaboo Mystery and No Jumping on the bed

If you don't like him, and he is a bastard, and you don't care about the shit storm, don't give him anything. Or perhaps give him a book on table manners, or the value of being polite.

If you want to PM me your address, I will order this children's book about politeness and get 1-day shipping to your address. That should get the message across, that he is childish and needs to learn these things.

The Lil Jon version of the classic children's book "No Jumping on the Bed."

http://www.amazon.com/No-Jumping-Bed-Tedd-Arnold/dp/014055839X