Yong Breaks Out of the Boredom Box

Yong is a responsible kid, but gets bored easily with school, work and life. His grandfather who is a chef at a Chinese restaurant inspires Yong to pursue interests and hobbies such as kung fu (karate), origami and cooking. After reading this book, your child will get ideas on what to do when you're bored and fun things to do at home. Develop the skills of attention, initiative, and creativity as you break out of the boredom box!



This book showcases diversity in positive ways with characters that span various cultures, ethnicities, family situations, physical challenges and more. Readers of all backgrounds will see themselves in these pages while learning to value the diversity within their own community and being exposed to differences from around the world.



Social and emotional learning picture books guide elementary readers to control emotions and learn social skills. This education resource features the MVP Kids; includes Discussion Guides for parents and educators. Part of a helpful character building program.



About the Help Me Understand series

The Help Me Understand series provides elementary children with tools to identify, understand, and responsibly manage difficult emotions. Each book follows the life of one of our sixteen diverse MVP Kids and contains a discussion guide with further insight and reflection questions related to the book's content. Themes include children overcoming and managing anger, anxiety, insecurity, boredom, arrogance, and more. Through difficult challenges, the MVP Kids learn to make the right choices in the midst of big feelings.



About MVP Kids

Families with a diverse range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds drive the inspiration for child education and social emotional learning. MVP Kids enables real-world kids to address the challenges in their lives through story-based character lessons where the kids interact at school, in social situations, and in their communities. MVP Kids board books enrich preschool readers while hardcovers and paperbacks focus on school-aged children. Each MVP Kids book includes extensive coaching information for parents and educators that promotes character education, wise decision-making skills, and social and emotional learning.