Are You Masking?, 1

Robika Mylroie is a licensed professional counselor, national certified counselor, and certified trauma professional working as a school counselor in Mississippi — that's a genuinely credible background for a children's book about processing pandemic feelings. The book follows a character named Lala to help young children name emotions like fear, nervousness, and courage as they navigate mask-wearing and pandemic life, using an emotion-personification technique that is well established in therapeutic children's literature. The honest caveat is timing: the COVID-specific framing dates the book rapidly, and it's less useful now than it would have been in 2021 or 2022. It was also self-published through BookBaby, so no editorial review process is documented and no independent critical reviews have surfaced. For school counselors or caregivers working with children still processing pandemic experiences, it remains a thoughtful, professionally grounded resource.