Toddler Tools® 8-Book Set

Gentle guidance for big toddler moments, one reassuring routine at a time!

Designed to support toddlers ages 1–3 through everyday routines, transitions, and emotions, this Toddler Tools® board book set helps young children build confidence, cooperation, and essential social-emotional skills. Each sturdy board book features simple, reassuring language and warm, engaging illustrations that reflect real toddler experiences. Ideal for home, preschool, daycare, and childcare settings, this collection also includes helpful tips at the back of each book to support parents and caregivers as they guide toddlers through daily challenges.

Titles included in this set:

• Bye-Bye Time helps toddlers feel safe and secure during separations by introducing comforting goodbye routines and reassuring language
• Clean-Up Time encourages cooperation and responsibility by showing how cleaning up together can be simple, positive, and even fun
• Listening Time supports early listening skills by helping toddlers learn to calm their bodies, focus their attention, and follow directions
• Sharing Time teaches turn-taking and patience while offering simple strategies toddlers can use when sharing feels hard
• Bedtime builds calm and predictable bedtime routines that help toddlers relax, feel secure, and settle into sleep
• Calm-Down Time gives toddlers tools to recognize strong emotions, express feelings safely, and regain a sense of calm
• Mealtime promotes healthy eating habits and positive table behavior through familiar, toddler-friendly routines
• Try-Again Time encourages resilience and perseverance by showing toddlers that mistakes are part of learning and growth

Thoughtfully created to support early development, this Toddler Tools® set helps transform everyday “times” into meaningful moments of learning, connection, and confidence for toddlers and the adults who care for them.

| Help toddlers ages 1–3 navigate daily routines and big feelings with 8 comforting board books that build confidence, cooperation, and social-emotional skills. |

Elizabeth Verdick has been writing books since 1997, the year her daughter was born. Her two children are the inspiration for nearly everything she writes. Before becoming an author, Elizabeth edited books for children and parents.

These days she writes books for babies, toddlers, teens, and every age in between. She especially loves creating new board books. The Happy Healthy Baby® series is designed to capture the interest of the littlest readers. Elizabeth’s Toddler Tools® series helps young children and their parents cope with those tough times and transitions that happen every day (like naptime and bedtime). In the Best Behavior® series, she helps toddlers reach new milestones and improve their day-to-day behavior.

Elizabeth also enjoys getting the chance to look at the funny side of life in the Laugh and Learn® series, which helps kids ages 8–13 get a handle on the social-emotional skills they’re developing throughout the elementary and middle school years. She’s also coauthor of The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder (And Their Parents), which offers kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) their own comprehensive resource for both understanding their condition and finding tools to cope with the challenges they face every day.

Elizabeth lives and writes near St. Paul, Minnesota.

Marieka Heinlen received her BFA at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and also studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.

She launched her career as an award-winning children’s book illustrator with Hands Are Not for Hitting and has illustrated all of the books in the Best Behavior® and Toddler Tools® series. Marieka focuses her work on books and other materials for children, teens, parents, and teachers.

She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her husband, son, and daughter.