Many elementary school children may cope with difficult life struggles such as disabilities, abuse, loss, and identity issues. This article details original, student generated, biblio-therapeutic book creations and how this genre teaches positive ways for children at-risk to cope with tough life circumstances. Pre-service, elementary college graduate students created their own biblio-therapeutic books in this author's literacy course in order to demonstrate the home to school connection by heightening empathy skills. This author and professor, had students create coping themes they felt most compelled them in their own childhoods and/or were issues they felt needed to be explored in children's literature. Four, biblio-therapy, coping themes are discussed as well as students' originally created, corresponding lesson activities. Student reflections of this emotionally charged project report highly favorable results and are also reviewed.