Bilingual from page one
Not a translated edition, and not a separate SKU. English and Spanish sit on the same page, so a newcomer works the same activity, at the same table, at the same moment as everyone else.
Volume I · Volumen I
NEWAges 9–12 · English & Español · 60 activities
Big feelings don't wait for a convenient moment.
Feelings, Friends, and Figuring Things Out
Look. Think. Pick. Do. Remember.
Sixty illustrated activities for the years when friendships get complicated and “I'm fine” becomes the default answer. Built on the CASEL 5, mapped to ASCA, MTSS Tier 1 ready, and written in two languages from page one — not translated afterwards.
Free sample page · no purchase · no child data collected
60 activities6 sections of 10
EN + ESsame page
60 illustrated activities · Ages 9–12 · 60 actividades ilustradas · Edades 9–12
The six sections
Six moves, in the order a hard moment actually happens.
The book is non-sequential — start anywhere, use what the week demands — but the six sections are ordered on purpose, from noticing what is happening in your own body outward to finding your place among other people.
The gap we're filling
Schools are asked to teach this. Most were never given the material.
60Illustrated activities, six sections of ten
50Standards alignments published in full, not on request
10Minutes for one activity, start to finish
2Languages on every single page
About us
We made the book we couldn't find.
InnoCreatiff is a creative agency that solves problems through user-centric solutions.
Some of us have been friends for twenty years. Thirty. Forty-five. And we still catch ourselves saying the same thing: nobody taught us this. Not feelings. Not friendship. Not how to figure things out when everything felt like too much. We learned by trial, by error, and mostly by pretending we were fine.
There is very little written for the stretch where friendships turn political and children start hiding what they feel — and in bilingual and dual-language rooms, the Spanish version arrives later, thinner, or never. So we wrote for that stretch, in both languages, on the same page.
We made Growing With My Feelings for the kids we were — and for the ones coming up next.
Honest about evidence
The techniques rest on established research and we cite them. The book itself has not been through a randomized trial and carries no ESSA evidence-tier rating. We say so on this page, in the FAQ, and to every district that asks.
Safe by design
Reviewed by a licensed child mental-health clinician. Nothing here is therapy, nothing is a risk screener, and every page that touches something heavy ends by pointing at a real adult.
Why it works
One move. Five steps. Sixty times over.
Every page gives you choices, and there is no one right way to begin. Every activity runs the same five steps, and each section prints its own wording of them on its contents page.
Printed on every section page — and the reason the rest of it works
Naming lowers the volume
Putting a precise word on a feeling reliably reduces its intensity — the effect that gives Section 1 its whole shape. “Frustrated” and “humiliated” need different next moves, and a child who can tell them apart gets to choose.
The body reports first
At this age the stomach and the jaw know before the vocabulary does. Starting with body clues gives children an entry point that does not require them to already have the word — and it works just as well for a child reading two years below grade level.
Ten minutes, repeated
Short and frequent beats long and occasional for skill transfer. One activity fits in an advisory block or a morning meeting, which is what makes it survivable for a teacher who already has no time.
No grade, no performance
The moment a page is scored, children start writing for the scorer. Removing the grade — and printing that promise where they can see it — is what makes the honest answer possible.
Start anywhere
Skip, scribble, point, tell, or come back later. The book is built to be opened at the page this week actually needs, not worked front to back — which is also what makes it usable in a counseling group.
Two languages, one page
Side-by-side text lets a multilingual learner use their strongest language for the hardest part of the task — the feeling — while still building the English vocabulary for it.
Inside Volume I
Seven tabs. One layout. All sixty activities.
We would rather show you ten real activities than describe sixty in the abstract. This is the contents page for Notice / Observa — the section every other section rests on.
All seven sections are printed in full above — sixty activities for the child, plus the six pages written for the adults around them, exactly as they appear in the book.
Standards & funding
50 alignments, published in full.
Filter by framework or by section to see exactly which competency each part of the book works. Every row in this table is also printed in the alignment index at the back of the book — so a walkthrough, a lesson plan or a purchase justification takes minutes, not an evening.
| Framework | Code | What the standard asks for | Where the book does it |
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Title I, III and IV-A eligible
Schoolwide Title I and family-engagement set-asides, Title III for multilingual learners, and Title IV-A well-rounded and safe-and-healthy funds all cover this line item. We supply the W-9, quote and alignment index your business office will ask for.
Look it over yourself
Filter by framework or by section, or search for a code, and read the whole table. We would rather you check the alignment against your own priorities than take our word for how it maps.
Progress you can show
Each section's promise doubles as a child self-report, before and after. The educator guide includes a simple tally sheet so a site can show movement without buying another instrument.
Who it's for
Three people open this book, for three different reasons.
You have ten minutes and thirty different afternoons in the room.
Open to the activity the week calls for. Each one is a single page a child can finish in about ten minutes — read the prompt aloud while they settle. No slide deck, no prep, no training day.
Because the page is bilingual, you are not running two lessons. Your newcomer and your English-dominant students work the same activity at the same table, and the child who needs Spanish for the feeling word still builds the English one.
- 60 activities across six sections — Notice, Steady, Connect, Speak, Learn, Belong
- English and Spanish on the same page, so it is one lesson and not two
- The same five-step move on every page: look, think, pick, do, remember
- Five ways to answer — write, draw, circle, point or tell
“Ten minutes, no prep, no grading” is the whole promise. If it took longer than that, you would not do it in week six — and week six is when it starts mattering.
Fits an advisory block
One activity, start to finish, in ten minutes. Long enough to matter, short enough to survive a Tuesday.
Nothing to grade
No marking, no rubric, no answer key. That is a design decision about honesty, and it also gives you your evening back.
Works below grade level
Illustration and structure carry the meaning. A child reading two years below grade can do every activity in the book.
The year “How was school?” stops working.
Somewhere around nine, the answers get shorter. It is not that they have stopped having feelings — it is that talking about them out loud, to a parent, face to face, has started to cost something. A book gives them a place to put it that is not a conversation.
You do not need training, a script, or a calm evening. Hand it over, leave it around, or do a page alongside them with your own copy of the same question. Ten minutes at the kitchen table is the format it was built for.
- Both languages in one book. A grandparent who reads only Spanish can do the same page.
- Nothing to be marked. No right answers, so nothing to get wrong in front of you.
- A child may always pass. Nothing here asks them to read an answer out loud.
- When to seek more support — a page of concrete signs a book is not enough, and who to contact first.
Read it together if you are invited. Never to check up on them.
— the note to grown-ups, printed inside the front cover
For the quiet car ride
A shared page is easier than a direct question. Point at the one that matches today and let them answer sideways.
For the sibling gap
Ages 9 to 12 covers most of a family at once, so two children can use the same book without one feeling babied.
For screen-free time
Paper, pencil, ten minutes. No account, no app, no notification, and nothing that needs charging.
A small-group resource that does not pretend to be an assessment.
You already know the difference between a reflection page and a screener. So do we. Nothing in this book scores a child, and nothing in it should ever be used to decide whether a child is safe — that is stated on the page, not buried in a disclaimer.
Speak is the section most requested by school-based clinicians: help-seeking taught as an explicit, rehearsable skill — when to ask, who to ask, what words to use, and how to tell a safe adult from an unsafe one. The “who's on my team” activity is designed to route children toward you by name.
Safety architecture is deliberate throughout: the plain statement that safe adults do not ask children to keep secrets, green and red flags for helpers, and a “this is bigger than a book” page that ends with a direct instruction to tell a trusted adult today.
- Ten activities per section, so a short group has a spine already built
- Any activity pulls on its own, without breaking a sequence
- Every page that touches something heavy ends by pointing at a real adult
- No child data collected, on paper or on this site
Tier 2 without a new program
Same language as the Tier 1 rooms, so a child in your group is not learning a second vocabulary that contradicts the first.
Clear referral edges
The book says out loud what it is not, and points at a person rather than a hotline for children this age.
Bilingual caseloads
One book covers both language groups, so your Spanish-dominant students are not handed a thinner version of the work.
Bilingual by design
Not translated. Written twice.
A feelings vocabulary that has been run through a translation tool reads like a form. This one was written in US-classroom Spanish by a bilingual educator, then checked against how children this age actually talk.
What a translated book says
- “El almuerzo” for a lunch period no child calls that
- Formal forms no US classroom actually uses
- Feelings words from a dictionary, not from a hallway
- A separate edition that arrives a year later
What this book says
- Lonche, recreo, el bus — the words children actually use
- US-classroom register throughout, no Spain-Spanish
- Feeling words checked with bilingual 10-year-olds
- Same page, same book, same day
Cognate pairs are surfaced on the page rather than hidden in a glossary, so a child building English vocabulary gets the bridge for free — and the family material is fully in Spanish, not a summary of it.
From the field
What early readers said.
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“My fifth graders stopped saying ‘I'm fine' by about week three. The volume page did that — turns out they just did not have a way to say ‘a four' before.”
“I use the worry radar with every group now. Two questions, and a kid who could not explain the problem can suddenly put it somewhere.”
“His abuela does the pages with him on Sundays. She does not read English. That has never once been possible with a school book before.”
Pricing
Priced so a classroom set clears a discretionary budget.
Every tier includes both languages. Purchase orders welcome; quote and W-9 by return email.
Single copy
One family, one child
$18.95
per book · both languages included
- All 6 sections, 60 activities
- Note to grown-ups included
- No reproduction rights
Classroom set
One teacher, one roster
$345
25 books · save 27% vs. single copies
- 25 consumable student books
- Reproducible licence, named teacher
- Educator guide + worksheet pages
- Printable alignment index
Site licence
One campus, all staff
$1,850
per campus · per year
- 150 books + campus-wide reproduction
- Digital edition for all staff
- Family-night handout pack, bilingual
- 60-minute staff orientation call
District
Four campuses or more
Quote
PO, W-9 and quote by return email
- Volume pricing across campuses
- Consolidated invoicing
- Vendor privacy attestation on request
- Title I / III / IV-A documentation
Counseling 10-packs are $155 print / $89 digital and carry the same reproducible licence, scoped to one named counselor. Ask us about donated copies for family literacy nights.
Free sample
Take a real page into your room tomorrow.
One letter-size printable, in whichever language you are reading this in: My Emotion Volume and My Worry Radar, both from Section 1. Print it, copy it, use it with your group. If it works, you will know what the other fifty-eight are like.
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- No child data collected, ever
Questions
The things people ask before they order.
Contact
Quotes, purchase orders, permissions, awkward questions.
A person answers this, usually the same day. If you need a W-9, a vendor privacy attestation, a quote on district letterhead or the full contents list for all six sections, say so and it comes back attached.
- Orders & quotesPurchase orders, W-9, quotes on letterhead, volume pricing.
- GeneralAnything about the book, the series, or when the next volume lands.
- PermissionsConference handouts, district-wide use, translation requests.
- AccessibilitySomething on this site blocking you, or an alternative format you need.
Start with one page and one group.
The sample is a real activity from Section 1, in your language, ready to print. If it lands with your kids, the other fifty-nine work the same way.
You are not alone.
You are not too much.
You matter.