According to Scholastic Corporation, "Joy Berry knows kids." Parents and teachers who buy her books and kids who read them agree. Joy Berry's realistic understanding of kids and her pragmatic approach to educating and empowering them began with a childhood vow to one day "...figure out a way to give kids more control over their lives." Joy Berry's commitment was spawned by a childhood in which her parents defined successful parenting as getting children to embrace parental standards and goals.

Fourteen years later, armed with a California Lifetime Teaching Credential and 10 years of experience as a child caregiver, recreation director, camp counselor, and teacher aide, Joy Berry began a public school teaching career in which she taught the second, third, fourth, and fifth grades. She supplemented her teacher's salary by establishing and maintaining high quality after-school and summer programs. She also created a highly acclaimed preschool and daycare center. Several years later, she created a second preschool and daycare center that grew into one of the top three infant-through-early elementary private schools in Southern California.

Joy Berry's experience as a teacher and school administrator led her to conclude that in addition to academic subjects, children need to learn living skills. When she discovered that these materials were non-existent, she began filling the void by creating and developing self-help materials that speak directly to children.

In the 30 years Joy Berry has been an educator and author, she has been the best promoter of her products. She has successfully pitched buyers on behalf of her publishers, presented successfully at major sales conferences and industry meetings and has been featured in several highly successful media tours. She has also spoken at sales conventions including American Booksellers Convention, BookExpo America, Christian Booksellers Association, London Book Fair, NAPTA, and Toy Fair. In addition, Joy Berry has spoken at education conventions such as American Library Association, National Education Association, National Association for the Education of Children, and National Parent Teacher Association and been a script doctor for major Hollywood studios.

Joy Berry Classic Series books currently in publication are broken down into six series which are designed to address childhood issues at every age.

All books feature free downloads, which includes (but is not limited to): Tips for Parents, Read Along Soundtracks and Original Music.

I Love... (Teach Me About)

• Comprehensive Early Learning for Toddlers aged 1—3.

At age 1, children are just making the transition from infant to toddler. Teach Me About books help toddlers ages 1—3 begin to do things independently and learn about basic relationships.

Very young children often develop irresponsible behavior when they are not encouraged to assume responsibility for their actions and reactions. Parents often foster irresponsible behavior when they perceive children as helpless and incapable of assuming responsibility for their lives. The purpose of Teach Me About is to help parents begin the process of shifting the responsibility for a child’s behavior from the parent to the child.

Do It Yourself Potty Training Kit for Boys and Girls: Two interactive do it yourself kits - one for boys and one for girls - that will help children master potty training. This kit contains everything a parent needs to get started

"I Love Potty Training" Interactive Potty Kit for Boys and Girls (Bi-Lingual): I Love Potty Training by Joy Berry is the ultimate potty guide and app for the iPhone and iPad. From tips and advice to tracking tools, games and ebooks, this app has everything you need for successful potty training. It even emails you a diploma when training is complete.

Let's Talk About

• Handling Emotions in Positive Ways for children ages 3—6

Let's Talk About books help children ages 3—6 navigate their way through difficult emotions. Rather than categorize emotions as good or bad, Joy Berry describes them as comfortable or uncomfortable. And she says, "Uncomfortable emotions can be positive as they often motivate a person to do something that needs to be done."

Raw emotions, as well as emotionally charged situations, are the source of a child’s first inner conflicts and discomfort. This inner turmoil can manifest in unacceptable behavior that can be troublesome to parents as well as children.

Help Me Be Good

• Replacing Misbehavior with Good Behavior for children ages 4—7

Help Me Be Good books help children replace "misbehavior" with good behavior in an inviting format (text and cartoons panels). Each book in the Help Me Be Good series defines a misbehavior, such as teasing or fighting and explains the cause of the misbehavior and its negative effects. This series offers children and parents practical advice for turning misbehavior into acceptable behavior.

The normal egocentricity of young children often leads to misbehavior that evokes negative responses from others. These negative responses can lead to a destructive cycle of negative action and reaction. The purpose of Help Me Be Good is to break the cycle of negative action and reaction.

Each Help Me Be Good book defines a misbehavior, explains the cause of the misbehavior, discusses the negative effects of the misbehavior, and offers suggestions for replacing the misbehavior with acceptable behavior.

A Fun And Easy Way

• Personal, Social and Coping Skills for children ages 6—10

The purpose of the Fun and Easy Way books is to teach children he personal, social and coping skills needed to help them fulfill reasonable expectations at home and at school, both academically and socially.

This is accomplished by teaching children the personal skills they need to take care of themselves, the social skills they need to develop and maintain positive relationships, and the coping skills they need to relate to things in positive rather than negative ways.

Children are often ill equipped to assume the responsibilities that are required of them. Failure to perform adequately creates frustrations and disappointments for children and the people around them.

Good Answers To Tough Questions

• Honest, Informative Answers to Hard Topics for children ages 6—12

Each book in the Good Answers to Tough Questions series focuses on a critical issue (divorce, moving, trauma, natural disasters) and helps elementary-school-age children see that there are ways to turn negative life experiences in to positive ones.

All children will encounter trauma in their lives, whether directly or indirectly. Tough experiences can be detrimental to any child if not addressed and handled properly. Parents are often not equipped to help children appropriately handle the difficulties of their experience.

Good Answers to Tough Questions can also help parents, teachers, and counselors by stimulating therapeutic dialogues and providing insights that can lead to positive behavior modification.

Winning Skills

• Motivating Tweens to Overcome and Succeed for children ages 11+

Generally speaking, pre-adolescent misbehavior just before the teen years is a direct result of low self-esteem, lack of purpose or direction, pressure to succeed, traumatic experiences, unresolved problems, and/or the quest for excitement. Peer pressure is often the catalyst that causes these factors to result in misbehavior.

Dealing with pre-adolescent misbehavior using the popular shape-up-or-ship-out approach is ineffectual because it deals with the symptoms rather than the problem. In order to make a substantial impact on pre-adolescent misbehavior, it is necessary to resolve the issues that cause it.

Taking The Scary Out Of Halloween

• " Taking The Scary Out Of Halloween" (Ages 5-7)

This kit "takes the scary out of Halloween" with 10 safety guidelines for Halloween as well as "make and do" activities for costumes and makeup, glow in the dark stickers, glow sticks, a glow necklace and bracelet, a flashlight and a few simple recipes.

• The Taking The Scary Out Of Halloween kit is now available exclusively at Barnes & Noble and BN.com

The following eBooks are available for download in .epub (ipad / iphone), .azw (amazon kindle) and pdf file formats. All eBooks can be downloaded from amazon.com and the apple ibookstore.

eBooks Available:

• I Love Brothers & Sisters (A Teach Me About Book)
• I Love Mealtime (A Teach Me About Book)
• Let's Talk About Feeling Afraid
• Help Me Be Good: Being Selfish
• A Fun & Easy Way to Get Good Grades
• Good Answers to Tough Questions: Divorce
• Winning Skills: You can Be Creative
• Winning Skills: You can Be in Control

Free Sample eBooks:

• I Love Mommies & Daddies (A Teach Me About Book)
• Let's Talk About Needing Attention
• Help Me Be Good: Whining
• A Fun & Easy Way to do your Homework
• Good Answers to Tough Questions: Moving
• Winning Skills: You can Attain Goals

Berry's previous works have been published by Children's Press, Encyclopedia Britannica, Grolier, Parents, Scholastic, Time-Life, and World Book.

• "The Survival Series for Kids" series (also known as "What to Do When Your Mom or Dad Says..." series); illustrated by Lynn Bartholomew; 30 books.
• "Let's Talk About Being..." series (also known as: "Help Me Be Good", "A Children's Book about Being...", and "Social Skills Book about"); illustrated by John Costanza and Lynn Bartholomew 29 books.
• The "Ready, Set, Grow" Series (also known as "A Children's Book about..." and "A Kid's Guide..."); illustrated by Ernie Hergenroeder; 24 books.
• "Good Answers to Tough Questions About..." series; illustrated by Lynn Bartholomew.
• "The Human Race Club" series of animated videos, books, and most notably music albums, the third of which tell of the adventures of a group of kids as they explore the various themes discussed in the albums. A total of 12 were released beginning in 1982 on Peter Pan Records. In these albums, there was also a character called "Ms. Joy Berry" based on the author herself. Each record addressed two areas of learning concerning child development. As of 2008, the albums are out of print, and have yet to be rereleased on CD.