1. Gem #1:

Sophia and the Heartmender by Marie Olofsdotter

...This is a time of great troubles.  Families are overloaded, stressed financially and emotionally.  How can we access our internal sense of balance and knowing? Marie Olofsdotter has written a remarkable book about trusting our inner path to the heart. The heroine Sofia must undertake a difficult journey into the deep woods to find her own "Heartmender".  Each of us has such internal energy available, if we spend time listening to that quiet, loving voice inside of us.  Sofia must use her courage and wits to find hearts-ease and journey's end...both to her heart, and back to her family.

Therapy Suggestion: At the end of reading this book with a child, you can help them make their own bead necklace.  Each bead can represent a talent, a wonderful characteristic, a loving heart in the family....