PSHE topic books

PSHE topic books for EYFS, KS1, KS2, and KS3

Please browse our regularly updated lists of PSHE (Personal, Social, Health, and Economic Education) topic books for children in UK primary and secondary schools. We have compiled lists of exciting nonfiction and fiction titles to enliven topics and cross-curricular teaching.

Useful websites

PSHE Association
DfE guidance document for PSHE June 2019
BBC KS1 PSHE videos
BBC KS2 PSHE and social studies videos
BBC KS3 PSHE and modern studies videos
BBC GCSE PSHE and modern studies videos

PSHE magazines and journals

Teen Breathe (for KS3 and KS4)

Grief and loss books for children

Last updated on June 26, 2026 by Tom Tolkien

Grief and loss themed books for children and teens with titles by Britta Teckentrup, Samuel Langley-Swain, Judith Kerr, Harry Woodgate, Laura Dockrill, Oliver Jeffers, Kereen Getten, Michael Rosen and Joseph Coelho.

Consent books for teens

Last updated on June 20, 2026 by Tom Tolkien

Consent books for teens with titles by Laura Bates, Laurie Halse Anderson, Holly Bourne, Juno Dawson, Louise O’Neill, George M. Johnson, Non Pratt, Jennifer Mathieu, Alan Bissett, and Courtney Summers.

Books for children and teens about big egos, politicians and influencers

Last updated on June 15, 2026 by Tom Tolkien

Books for children about politicians, big egos and influencers with titles by Michael Rosen, Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum, Beverley Naidoo, Elle McNicoll, Yomi Adegoke, Rebecca F. Kuang, Naomi Klein, Jon Ronson, and Maria Ressa.

Books about AI and AI ethics for children and teens

Last updated on June 10, 2026 by Tom Tolkien

Books about AI and AI ethics for children and teens with titles by Malorie Blackman, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Peter Brown, Neal Shusterman, Philip K. Dick, Marie Lu, Hannah Fry, Cathy O’Neil, Laura Bates, and Kazuo Ishiguro.

Children’s and teen books to help combat hatred and bigotry

Last updated on June 7, 2026 by Tom Tolkien

Children’s books to combat hatred including titles by Michael Rosen, Malorie Blackman, Benjamin Zephaniah, Angie Thomas, Jason Reynolds, David Olusoga, R. J. Palacio, Lois Lowry, Elle McNicoll, and Nicola Davies.

Primary school to secondary school transition books for children

Last updated on June 6, 2026 by Tom Tolkien

Primary to secondary school transition books including titles by Matt Goodfellow, Anne Fine, Katie Kirby, Rosie Jones, Lisa Williamson, Libby Scott, Rebecca Westcott, Jeffrey Boakye, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, and Tolá Okogwu.

International Transgender Day of Visibility books for children and teens

Last updated on May 14, 2026 by Joanna Nance-Phillips

International Transgender Day of Visibility books for children and teens with titles by Juno Dawson, Virginia Woolf, Kacen Callender, Alex Gino, Kyle Lukoff, Aiden Thomas, Andrew Joseph White, Anna-Marie McLemore, Meredith Russo, and Dashka Slater.

Fables for children

Last updated on April 26, 2026 by Tom Tolkien

Fables for children with titles by Satoshi Kitamura, Joseph Coelho, Sophie Anderson, Petr Horáček, Helen Ward, Poonam Mistry, Sita Brahmachari, Onjali Q. Rauf, Yuval Zommer, and Yaba Badoe.

LGBTQI+ themed books for primary schools

LGBTQIA+ themed books for primary school aged children

Last updated on April 2, 2026 by Tom Tolkien

Children’s books with LGBTQIA+ themes for primary schools with titles by Jessica Love, Simon James Green, Ian Eagleton, Juno Dawson, Raina Telgemeier, Sarah Hagger-Holt, Alex Gino, Jen Carney and Benjamin Dean.

Children's books about kindness, empathy and love.

Empathy, kindness and love books for children

Last updated on March 26, 2026 by Tom Tolkien

Kindness, empathy and love children’s books for students aged 3-12+ including titles by Laura Dockrill, Malcolm Duffy, Dan Smith, Alice Oseman, Jess McGeachin, Michael Rosen, Catherine Rayner, Satoshi Kitamura, Suma Subramaniam, Benjamin Dean, R J Palacio & more.