Stories that Fuel Emotion
Empowering Your Child’s Social-Emotional Journey, One Story at a Time
Dive into the magical world of Zoy, where children’s stories foster fun, empathy, self-awareness, and emotional regulation. Your child can choose between animated tales, audio books, or the tangible feel of physical books they can hold in their hands.
Exclusive Offerings for Parents
Zoy Children Storybook App
With Zoy at your fingertips, dive into our digital treasure trove of stories infused with SEL principles. Explore our app’s Calm Corner, offering relaxation tales perfect for those winding-down moments. Available for download on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Tangible Tales
Sometimes, the best memories are created flipping through pages with your child snuggled up next to you. Our storybooks, both in ebook and print versions, are designed to create such heartfelt moments while imparting crucial SEL lessons.
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Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children
This is more than just a book; it’s a compass for parents navigating the vast ocean of emotions with their young ones. Gain insights, techniques, and confidence in fostering your child’s emotional intelligence.
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Building Blocks of Emotions Workbooks
For those fun learning sessions at home, Zoy brings you activity workbooks tailored for different age groups
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Emotional Discovery Coloring Books and Journals
Engage your child's creativity and emotional awareness with our coloring books and journals. Designed by experts, they offer a fun, interactive way to explore emotions through art and reflective journaling, nurturing emotional intelligence.
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Storybook App
With Zoy at your fingertips, dive into our digital treasure trove of stories infused with SEL principles. Explore our app’s Calm Corner, offering relaxation tales perfect for those winding-down moments. Available for download on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Tangible Tales
Sometimes, the best memories are created flipping through pages with your child snuggled up next to you. Our storybooks, both in ebook and print versions, are designed to create such heartfelt moments while imparting crucial SEL lessons.
Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children
This is more than just a book; it’s a compass for parents navigating the vast ocean of emotions with their young ones. Gain insights, techniques, and confidence in fostering your child’s emotional intelligence.
Building Blocks of Emotions Workbooks
For those fun learning sessions at home, Zoy brings you activity workbooks tailored for different age groups
Emotional Discovery Coloring Books and Journals
Engage your child’s creativity and emotional awareness with our coloring books and journals. Designed by experts, they offer a fun, interactive way to explore emotions through art and reflective journaling, nurturing emotional intelligence.
Laying the SEL Cornerstone
Social-emotional learning (SEL) is about understanding ourselves, our emotions, the choices we make, and the goals we can achieve. Nourish your child’s personal growth with the foundation of SEL.
CASEL Framework
Building Social-Emotional Skills Through Stories
Zoy provides fun, kid-tested, doctor and parent-approved learning opportunities. We have created a safe place to foster and develop social-emotional skills while spending quality giggle time together. If that isn’t enough, the stories are a hoot! Who doesn’t love to laugh?
Zoy’s Sticky Thanksgiving
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Relationship Skills
Self-Management
Social Awareness
Zoy isn’t feeling very thankful this Thanksgiving. In fact, it seems like just another day to her. That all changes when Zoy meets a new friend with a different perspective. Can Zoy learn to be grateful for what she has?
Without Poobie
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Responsible Decision-Making
Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Ruben takes his blanket with him everywhere. After a while, his blanket gets too dirty and needs a wash. How will Ruben get through laundry day without his beloved blanket?
Why The Long Face?
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Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Pretzel Sticks is a horse who’s sick of eating the same old thing, but when he tries to eat an apple, he faces obstacle after obstacle! How will he deal with the disappointment? Maybe with the help of some friends he meets along the way…
Two Homes for Gnaomi
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Relationship Skills
Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Gnaomi’s father is a gnome and her mother is a fairy. She loves getting the best of both worlds! But when her parents tell her that they’re going to separate, she has to come to terms with what “the best of both worlds” really means.
Three Goodnights
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Relationship Skills
Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Hazel and her trusty sidekick Dogfish are feeling sad that Daddy is going away on a three-day trip. Hazel tries to stop Daddy from leaving, but nothing works! How will Hazel get through three goodnights without Daddy?
The New House
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Relationship Skills
Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Selena is sad and angry about moving away from her old house and everything she knows and loves. Everything about the new house feels bad and wrong. Will a new friend help change the way she feels about it?
The Hole Story
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Relationship Skills
Self-Awareness
Social Awareness
Huey the hole is the only hole in the field that Farmer Al doesn’t plant with corn. Huey is worried that he’ll be alone forever, but a new friend helps him learn that being unplanted isn’t his hole story.
The Big Hill
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Self-Awareness
Self-Management
It’s snowing! Daisy’s brother, Collin, can’t wait to sled down the Big Hill, but Daisy’s scared. Can Daisy find the courage to speak her mind and face her fears?
The Big Goof
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Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Social Awareness
When Sonia tries to hide a goof she made, the goofs keep piling up until everything around her is one big goof! How’s Sonia going to find her way out of this mess? Will she learn that it’s okay to make mistakes and ask for help?
Sunny and Nimbus
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Relationship Skills
Responsible Decision-Making
Self-Management
Mother Earth loves her two children, Sunny and Nimbus. But Sunny and Nimbus are always fighting! Can one little flower bring these rival siblings together?
Snow Bunny and the Big Move
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Relationship Skills
Self-Awareness
Self-Management
When Gordo’s parents tell him they’re moving to the desert, his snow bunny heart is broken! As he adjusts to his new desert life, Gordo meets new friends and might even discover some unexpected surprises about himself.
Silly Goose
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Responsible Decision-Making
Self-Management
Social Awareness
Hudson the silly goose goes around doing whatever he wants, no matter how it makes other people feel. But a run-in with a sleeping bear might be what it takes to teach Hudson the importance of the golden rule.
Shyla Makes a Friend
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Relationship Skills
Self-Awareness
Shyla the whale shark is very shy! When she starts school for the first time, she tries with little success to hide from the other students. But her failure to hide might lead to an exciting new friendship…
Rosie says No!
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Responsible Decision-Making
Self-Management
Social Awareness
When Daddy asks Rosie to clean up her room, Rosie says no! How can Daddy help Rosie learn about the importance of taking care of things without a power struggle?
Quincy Wants a Friend
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Relationship Skills
Self-Awareness
Social Awareness
Quincy the monster just wants to be liked, but maybe she’s trying a little too hard. When a quiet, mouthless girl shows up at monster school, Quincy finally figures out what it takes to make a friend.
Playing Therapy
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Relationship Skills
Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Emma’s been feeling nervous all the time and doesn’t know what to do about it! Her mother brings her to someone called a “counselor” to help her face her fears. Therapy sounds scary but, as Emma discovers, it might actually be a whole lot of fun.
Penny’s First Day of Kindergarten
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Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Social Awareness
The first day of kindergarten is about to start and Penny is TERRIFIED. If only she could bring her trusty dog, Pickles, with her! Will Penny be brave enough to face her fears alone?
One Step at a Time
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Responsible Decision-Making
Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Lia has big ambitions but isn’t sure how to accomplish them. That is, until her friends show her how to set goals so that she can succeed, one step at a time.
My Me-Ball
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Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Big feelings can be hard to explain or understand. What if they were all contained within a big ball inside of you? Explore the world of My Me Ball and find out how to live in harmony with even the biggest of feelings!
Lon the Lonely Swan
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Relationship Skills
Self-Awareness
Lon looks different from other swans, which makes him feel lonely. He wants to change to be accepted by others, but can he learn to accept himself?
Life of a Leaf
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Responsible Decision-Making
Self-Awareness
Self-Management
A great storm blows Leigh the leaf away from her home. Will Leigh be lost forever or will she learn to embrace change?
Leo Has a Secret
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Responsible Decision-Making
Self-Management
Leo uses his father’s best green tie for a dragon’s tail and accidentally ruins it. Afraid of getting in trouble, he hides the tie in the garden. Will Leo own up to his mistake?
Finding Calm in the Zoy World
Take a break from the excitement and visit our Calm Corner, a huge bonus feature for subscribers, where you’ll find relaxation stories from our certified clinical hypnotherapist.
Partner in Your Child's SEL Voyage
Enhance your child’s social-emotional learning with our Empowerment Toolkit. It includes our insightful SEL guide, interactive workbooks, journals, and engaging coloring books, all designed to support their emotional and creative development.
SEL Toolkit: Guide, Workbooks, Journal, & Coloring
Meet the Wizards Behind the Stories
Crafting Tales That Tickle, Teach, and Touch the Heart
Ever wondered what brews the magic of Zoy? It’s a delightful cocktail of child psychologists, passionate educators, and social-emotional learning (SEL) connoisseurs. Throw in a sprinkle of award-winning authors, a dash of comedy writers, and a pinch of cognitive scientists. Voila! You’ve got stories that not only entertain but deeply resonate. So, the next time your child chuckles or contemplates, know that a dedicated team is behind every heartwarming lesson.
Carrie Turner
Texas, USA
Carrie is a children’s author and editor who’s written over 2 dozen children’s books and edited many more. After studying Child and Family Development at Stephen F. Austin, she taught…
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Ashley Bugge
Washington, USA
Ashley Bugge is an award-winning author and K-12 educator, who utilizes her training and expertise in the subjects of human behavior and leadership to create authentic and transformational material for…
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Elena Gjorgjevska
Bitola, North Macedonia
Elena Gjorgjievska is a fine artist, painter, and illustrator living in Bitola. Love drawing and painting since an early age. She has an MA degree in painting from the Faculty…
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Katy Crawford
New York, USA
Katy holds a Master’s Degree in Education with over ten years of special education classroom experience focusing on behaviors. Katy has a passion for social-emotional learning and has put her…
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Mary Beth Bass
Massachusetts, USA
Mary Beth Bass is an award-winning fiction writer with a side of teaching and theatre. She’s also written about life-changing food, far-off places, silly kids, and big secrets! She loves…
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Richard Anderson
California, USA
Richard Anderson is a comedy writer who grew up in Boulder, Colorado, where he fell in love with Dr. Seuss and other whimsical storybooks. After graduating from the University of…
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Saskia Helen
Missouri, USA
Saskia Helen is a former educator and SEL specialist who now provides countless families and classrooms with essential tools for building relationships, supporting and uplifting children, and helping them to…
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David Tate
California, USA
David has a background in more traditional literature for older audiences, but after writing his first children’s book a few years back, he fell in love with the idea of…
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Dr. Sabahat Shah
Florida, USA
Bibi Sabahat Shah is a therapist and child development expert who works with children and families. Her goal is to help families nurture what is most important for healthy minds…
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Natalia Hartono
Surabaya, Indonesia
Natalia is an illustrator based in Indonesia. She has loved illustration and character design (and cute things!) since childhood. She currently works on children’s book illustrations and character design for…
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Mariia Shabadash
Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Since childhood, Mariia was interested in painting and was charmed by how every painter depicted their vision of the world. Having become an illustrator of children’s books, Mariia obtained an…
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Enghel Garcia
Laguna, Philippines
Enghel Garcia is a psychometrician turned graphic illustrator who has been drawing since she was 5. She loves watching animated series. After having a Psychology Degree and becoming a Psychometrician,…
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Olena Danilchenko
Massachusetts, USA
Olena is an award-winning, proactive growth-minded strategic marketing leader with diverse experience in global marketing and consulting roles. Olena has over 25 years of experience developing new go-to-market strategies and…
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Stories of Impact
Witness the transformative power of Zoy through parent testimonials from families just like you!
Emily Johnson
California, USA
Zoy’s stories have transformed our bedtime routine. The SEL elements are seamlessly woven into each tale, making learning about emotions fun and accessible for my child.
Robert Smith
Ontario, Canada
I purchased Zoy’s ebook collection for my grandchildren. It’s amazing to see them engage with the stories and discuss their feelings openly. A true treasure for family bonding.
Angela Martinez
Florida, USA
Zoy’s Empowerment Toolkit has been a game-changer in helping our foster children navigate their emotions. The activities are both fun and educational.
David Lee
New South Wales, Australia
As a parent, I’ve found the ‘Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children’ book incredibly insightful. It’s helped me understand and support my child’s emotional growth.
Sara Ali
London, UK
Using Zoy’s app has made learning about emotions an adventure for the kids I care for. The Calm Corner is a favorite feature for unwinding.
Michael Brown
Texas, USA
Zoy’s digital stories are a hit with my kids. They’re not only entertaining but also teach valuable lessons in emotional intelligence.
Jessica Green
Auckland, New Zealand
Navigating emotional education as a single parent can be tough, but Zoy’s resources have provided great support and guidance.
Rachel Patel
Colorado, USA
The blend of storytelling and SEL in Zoy’s books has been wonderful for our family. It’s a joy to see our child learn and grow emotionally.
Omar Khan
Birmingham, UK
Integrating into a new family was challenging, but Zoy’s stories helped bridge the gap, creating shared moments and understanding.
Chris Nguyen
Singapore
As first-time parents, Zoy’s educational stories and SEL resources have been invaluable in helping us guide our child’s emotional development.
Begin Your Child's Journey with Zoy Today
Zoy awaits with a treasure trove of stories and resources, curated just for you and your child
It’s time to dive into the deep world of SEL! You can read a parenting article, visit the Calm Corner with your child, read a digital book together, or order our physically story books, parents’ guide, and workbooks. With so many options, the only question is…where do you want to start first?
