How to Fill Your Hug Bank

By Dottie Dixon and Sarah Welch

Book Overview

What if your child had a simple, comforting way to understand big feelings?

How to Fill Your Hug Bank offers young readers exactly that.

A hug bank is a little jar inside your heart that holds love and comfort. You fill it up with all kinds of hugs-big hugs, silly hugs, gentle hugs, even no-touch hugs or long-distance hugs-from people you love.

When you feel sad, mad, or overwhelmed, you can take out a hug to help your body feel calm again. And when your hug bank is empty, you can fill it back up with a hug from a grown-up, friend, pet, or even yourself.

Perfect for bedtime, classrooms, and everyday emotional support, How to Fill Your Hug Bank teaches children that love is always within reach, even on hard days.

What kids will discover inside: How to fill their hug bank with love from family, friends, pets, and themselvesWays to use stored hugs to cope with big feelings like frustration, worry, or lonelinessThat love can be given, received, and shared in a variety of ways, even from far away

Perfect for: Bedtime routinesSocial-emotional learning (SEL) at home or in the classroomParents, teachers, therapists, and caregivers supporting sensitive or anxious childrenWhy families & educators love this book: Teaches emotional regulation in a simple, memorable wayEncourages empathy, connection, and self-soothingSupports children through big feelingsBuilds confidence and emotional vocabulary

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1971410012
• ISBN13: 9781971410012
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Playhouse Books
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2