ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a variety of prompts to help children engage and reflect on themes when working with storybooks. Given the wide range of conversation starters, it would certainly be counterproductive and intrusive to use them all. Any therapeutic interventions — questions, suggestions, observations, role-play activities, creative exercises — need to be selected and rotated in different ways that feel natural in the room. In reading and discussing storybooks in reflective ways, children are invited to connect with and express feelings around their own story. In this way, the storybooks can serve as tools for psychological release, understanding and growth.
