Childrens Books about Teamwork
Childrens books about teamwork help kids begin to understand how they can be better together. Important childrens books to read because children don’t just understand cooperation – they have to learn it!
In addition to recommending books about teamwork for kids, I’ve teamed up with some fellow bloggers to offer you homeschool and classroom resources to teach kids about cooperation!
You can find these childrens books about teamwork books at your local library or purchase through the affiliate links provided for your convenience.
When it comes to teamwork and cooperation, several of our personal favorites are Stone Soup, Frederick and The Giant Jam Sandwich.
We even have The Giant Jam Sandwich on audio — and have listened to this great story over and over. It never gets old!
Why Teamwork is Important
Teamwork is essential for kids as it plays a pivotal role in their social development, enhancing crucial skills like communication, conflict resolution and collaboration.
Being part of a team boosts children’s confidence and exposes them to diverse perspectives, teaching them to appreciate differences and work collectively towards shared goals.
Teamwork instills a sense of responsibility, preparing kids for future academic and professional challenges where collaborative efforts are key to success.
It also promotes leadership qualities, problem-solving skills and a strong sense of belonging within a supportive community.
How is Teamwork Part of Social Emotional Learning
Teamwork is an integral part of Social and Emotional Learning! Through collaboration in a team setting, your child can enhance their social awareness by understanding and responding to the emotions of their teammates. This cooperative environment builds relationship skills, emphasizing effective communication and positive connections.
Teamwork also aligns with SEL goals by promoting responsible decision-making, self-management and fostering a sense of social responsibility. Encounters with conflicts within a team setting provide opportunities for your child to practice conflict resolution skills, while the need to empathize with teammates’ perspectives contributes to their development of empathy.
Reading these childrens books about teamwork is a great place to start. And if you’re working on these over the summer, incorporate these Summer Reading Activities.
More Teamwork Resources
- Teamwork Chapter Books For Kids
- Co-operative Shapes and Colors Painting
- Teaching Teamwork
- 8 Best Cooperative Board Games For Kids
- Team Building Exercises for Children
CHILDRENS BOOKS ABOUT TEAMWORK
Award-winning artist Jon J Muth retells the favorite tale of a selfish community who is tricked into creating a delicious soup from stones. Set in China in Muth's hauntingly beautiful watercolors.
Three strangers, hungry and tired, pass through a war-torn village. Embittered and suspicious from the war, the people hide their food and close their windows tight.
That is, until the clever strangers suggest making a soup from stones.
* Caldecott Medal Winner *
Rabbit saves the day in a most ingeneous way. When Mouse lets his best friend, Rabbit, play with his brand-new airplane, trouble isn't far behind.
From Caldecott Honor award winner Eric Rohmann comes a brand-new picture book about friends and toys and trouble, illustrated in robust, expressive prints.
A beautiful, empowering picture book about two sisters who work with their community to effect change, inspired by a true story from the childhood of the author’s aunt, Kamala Harris, and mother, lawyer and policy expert Maya Harris.
This timeless story of having your cake (and eating it, too!) comes to life with Galdone's dynamic, amusing pictures.
A classic storybook for all young readers--and a cautionary tale for lazy ones.Â
Little Red Hen is a time-tested tale about how we reap what we sow.
* Caldecott Honor Award *
Deep in the sea lives a happy school of fish. Their watery world is full of wonders, but there is also danger, and the little fish are afraid to come out of hiding… until Swimmy comes along.
Swimmy shows his friends how - with ingenuity and team work - they can overcome any danger.
Buildings, bridges, and books don't exist without the workers who are often invisible in the final product, as this joyous and profound picture book reveals.
When the annual Maker Match is held, Meg and Simone are paired as a team but can’t seem to stop arguing. When their extraordinary project turns into a huge disaster, they must find a way to join creative forces, lift each other up, and work together.
Hedgehog lives on a teeny-tiny island with only her stuffed dog, Mutty, for company. When a great storm carries Mutty away, she embarks on a quest to find her friend and finds new ones along the way.
With bravery and teamwork, there's nothing that can stop them from finding Mutty, but along the way they discover something even more important: each other.
Tiki struggles to recover from a game day fumble until his brother helps him out in this story about perseverance.
Tiki can’t believe it when the ball is knocked out of his hand in the Cave Spring Viking’s last preseason game against their rival Knights.
And when nobody wants to talk to him the next day at lunch, he feels even worse.
Can his brother and coach help him regain his confidence?
In this funny and zany picture book, villagers make a giant jam sandwich to trap the wasps that have invaded their town.
It's a dark day for Itching Down.
Four million wasps have just descended on the town, and the pests are relentless! What can be done? Bap the Baker has a crazy idea that just might work.
Young readers will love this lyrical, rhyming text as they watch the industrious citizens of Itching Down knead, bake, and slather the biggest wasp trap there ever was!
* Caldecott Winner *
Officer Buckle knows more about safety than anyone in the town of Napville.
Whenever he tries to share his safety tips, nobody listens – until the day the Napville Police Department buys a police dog named Gloria, who has her own way of demonstrating safety tips, creating the ultimate team.
This hilarious retelling of the classic Russian tale about a farmer whose turnip is impossible to pull from the ground uses simple vocabulary, making it easy for kids of all ages to understand!
The animals of Knotty Pine won't listen to the gnats' suggestion for keeping the hunters away, but learn to appreciate the tiny bugs when they're able to make the hunters "buzz off."
ALA Notable Book. Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book
Join a young boy as he watches the Empire State Building being constructed from scratch, then travels to the top to look down on all of New York City in 1931.Â
* Caldecott Honor Recipient *
Winter is coming, and all the mice are gathering food except for Frederick. But when the days grow short and the snow begins to fall, it’s Frederick’s stories that warm the hearts and spirits of his fellow field mice.
There is a wall in Angel’s neighborhood. Around it, the community bustles with life: music, dancing, laughing. Not the wall. It is bleak. One boy decides to change that. But he can’t do it alone.
