Did you know that reading for just ten minutes a day can improve your mood, improve your quality of sleep, boost your concentration skills and help build your self-confidence?
Not only is reading for fun important in helping develop skills that will be useful in lessons, it is also a great way to take time for yourself and your own well-being. Reading can also provide a fun, temporary escape from real life and can be an ideal way to unwind and reduce stress.
Not only this but reading also improves the pathways and neural circuits of our brain while lowering our blood pressure and heart rate!
To mark Children's Mental Health Week, the library team have put together a display of mental health resources and 'comfort reads' to promote reading for student wellbeing.
Highlights from our display include:
Mind your head by Juno Dawson
Am I normal yet? by Holly Bourne
You got this by Bryony Gordon
The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
I'll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson
The teenage guide to stress by Nicola Morgan
Curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
For more mental health related book recommendations, check out the library app!
Helpful terms to search for more of these kind of books include: 'shelf help', 'just ask' and 'mental health'.
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