The Trouble Markers

Big feelings can be hard for young children to explain. Frustration, fear, sadness, jealousy, and anger can all come spilling out at once-leaving kids overwhelmed and parents wondering how to help.

In The Trouble Markers and the Mind's Graffiti, the Trouble Markers escape and fill Marker Box's mind with colorful, scribbly chaos. With help from Magic Mindful Marker, readers meet each Trouble Marker, uncover the feeling it represents, discover a positive trait, search for hidden numbers in the graffiti, and take a Superpower Breath to help bring calm back.

This interactive read-aloud blends emotional learning, rhyme, colorful characters, seek-and-find fun, counting, and simple breathing moments into one playful experience families can enjoy together.

About The Trouble Markers®

The Trouble Markers helps kids understand and manage big emotions-and makes parenting easier.

The world centers on Marker Box, an emotional explorer who faces the everyday feelings toddlers know all too well.

When big emotions escape as mischievous Trouble Markers, a simple moment turns into a whirlwind of color, scribbles, and chaos.

With gentle guidance from Magic Mindful Marker, Marker Box learns to pause, try a self-regulation tool, take a Superpower Breath, capture the Trouble Markers, and bring the world back into balance.

Each story starts in a blank white setting-representing the mind-and the Trouble Markers draw the world into existence.

Kids see that their feelings shape their experience of the world and that big feelings have a place and can be integrated into balance. They learn to see their feelings as friendly characters they can name and handle. Parents get a shared language for the hardest emotional moments.

"Capturing Trouble Markers always makes me feel better."