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Does he get his own coach? Is all about relishing the journey and making good choices along the way—because how we live and how we love is how we learn to make the world a better place, one small step at a time. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave.

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This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. While they never seem to notice her, she notices them, especially one little boy who has no mittens. That night, Sarah knits the boy a pair of cozy mittens and places them on the blue spruce tree for him to discover.

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It soon becomes a game, with the children looking for new mittens on the mysterious tree every morning, and Sarah joyfully knitting new ones each night. With its touching message and delightful illustrations, adults and children will enjoy this intergenerational tale for years to come. Terupt, their new and energetic teacher, seems to know how to deal with them all. Sometimes you need a reminder that there are good people in the world. This book highlights the good actions of people and encourages children to spread the love. Read this when you or your child needs a lift. Ages 3 - 7. Kindness and generosity take center stage as a young man chooses to look past his own desire to fit in and help someone else in need.

This is a great discussion starter about peer pressure, kindness, and poverty. Ruler starts a kindness campaign in her class. As the kids work on their acts of kindness, they realize they can change the world through their good deeds. This offbeat and colorful book offers ideas kids can put into action. Ages 5 - With themes of acceptance, kindness, and strength in numbers, this timeless and profound feel-good story will resonate with readers young and old.

Lucy is one of a kind and Ralph loves to point that out. Lucy's defining moment comes when Ralph truly needs help. Because she knows what she stands for, Lucy has the courage to make a good choice. This charming story empowers children to always do the right thing and be proud of themselves, even when they are faced with someone as challenging as Ralph. One good turn deserves another - and another - in this universal tale about the contagiousness of being kind.

Hen gives Pig an unexpected present. Pig is so touched, in fact, that he decides to do something kind too. So Pig gives Rabbit a gift.

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Where will all of this kindness lead? Examines the physical and psychological changes that come with maturity and explores the choices and responsibilities that each person faces as he or she grows up. Each of us has an invisible bucket. When our bucket is full, we feel great. From the sentimental to the soulful, this delightful book explores the many and curious modes of love using adorable pictures and pleasing phrases.

And it makes a fantastically thoughtful gift that anyone will, well, love! Love Monster is a slightly hairy monster trying to fit in with the cuddly residents of Cutesville.


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But as it turns out, it's hard to fit in with the cute and the fluffy when you're a googly-eyed monster. And so, Love Monster sets out to find someone who will love him just the way he is. But as he soon finds out, in the blink of a googly eye, love can find you when you least expect it. So begins the story that has touched the hearts of millions worldwide. Henry is a bit of a dreamer and not much of a talker. Then there's Chloe, who says what she thinks and knows how to turn a spectacular cartwheel. An endearing nursery game is beautifully revitalized in this comforting, sleepy-time picture book.

A little hare tests his father's love by declaring his own: By Alice Walker Grades: Kindergarten and up Content: Self, nature and creativity. Glowing colours and radiant images accompany this joyous celebration of the connections and interconnections. By Nikki Grimes Grade: Poems on being thankful. In sixteen extraordinary poems that range in form from a haiku to a rebus to a riddle, Nikki Grimes reminds us how wonderful it is to feel thankful, and how powerful a simple "thank you" can be.

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By Dallas Clayton Grades: Gratitude for what what you have. This book conveys, in pictures and simple yet beautiful language, all the ways one can be thankful, and all the different things in life to be thankful for. By Liz Garton Scanlon Grades: Gratitude for small daily life. Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning till night, this book affirms the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky. Kids will learn nonviolent ways to assert and protect themselves—and when to ask for adult help.

Together, kids and caring grown-ups can banish bullies in schools and neighborhoods. Meet Noah — confident and happy until he starts at a new school. There, he meets Connor. In his journal, Noah draws all sorts of doodles about how he would like to stand up to his bully. Finally, one day, Noah finds a friend. Can she help him stand up to the big, tall bully? Read along to this story about finding friends, confidence, and the ability to stand up for yourself.

Bullies aren't born mean--through the vicious cycle of mean, bullies are made. Parents, students, and teachers have amped up solving the bullying problem for a networked generation of kids. Llama Llama is learning lots of new things at school and making many friends. But when Gilroy Goat starts teasing him and some of their classmates, Llama Llama isn't sure what to do.

And then he remembers what his teacher told him—walk away and tell someone. But then Llama Llama feels badly. Can he and Gilroy try to be friends again? Barron's A First Look At books explore the dynamics in relationships among children of preschool through early school age, and encourage kids to understand personal and social problems as a first step toward solving them. Written by an experienced psychotherapist and counselor, these books promote positive interaction among children, parents, and teachers.

Fragility was a solid piece of work.

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But despite her sturdy exterior, Fragility was fragile. Anything and everything hurt her feelings. In the most benign compliment, Fragility heard an insult. No one could even say she looked nice without evoking images of big, squishy cupcakes—since they are also nice—and causing Fragility to flop on the ground and weep. In the face of real insults, will Fragility finally learn to take a compliment? Smiling at the new student in class. Giving someone a compliment. Celebrating the differences in others. When the girl in the red hat finds the courage to be kind to the new student in class, her kindness spreads.

Kind act by kind act, her whole community experiences the magical shift that happens when everyone understands—and acts on—what it means to be kind. This heartwarming book encourages positive behavior by using the concept of an invisible bucket to show children how easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation, and love by "filling buckets. It also explains that it's possible to fill or dip into our own buckets.

In all Toot and Puddle books, the two friends are affectionate, picking out thoughtful gifts, writing postcards to eachother, and looking out for each other. You are my Sunshine , Puddle goes to great lengths to try to cheer up his friend Toot. Help children develop the attitudes and skills of courage and assertiveness in order to make wise choices and work through challenges. They learn to distinguish between expectations set by trusted adults and hurtful, wrong, or dangerous things adults or children might pressure them….

The Autism Acceptance Book is an activity book, a conversation-starter, and an educational tool that engages children in learning to embrace people's differences and treat others with respect, compassion and kindness. It helps children see that we are all different from each other and we all like to be understood and accepted. It teaches children about autism; helps them imagine how things might feel for those with autism and lets them think of ways to be understanding and accepting to people with autism.

Ideal for classrooms and group setting, this book should be shared with every child as it will help them learn important life lessons and help soften the stigma of autism and other special needs. With the ease and simplicity of a nursery rhyme, this lively story delivers an important message of social acceptance to young readers. Themes associated with child development and social harmony, such as friendship, acceptance, self-esteem, and diversity are promoted in simple and straightforward prose. Vivid illustrations of children's activities for all cultures, such as swimming in the ocean, hugging, catching butterflies, and eating birthday cake are also provided.

This delightful picturebook offers a wonderful venue through which parents and teachers can discuss important social concepts with their children. Elmer the elephant is bright-colored patchwork all over. No wonder the other elephants laugh at him! If he were ordinary elephant color, the others might stop laughing. That would make Elmer feel better, wouldn't it? The HERO BOOK is a refreshing, engaging and empowering book that helps children identify the qualities and characteristics they admire in others while also encouraging them to emulate these traits in their own lives.

The HERO BOOK offers inspiring narrative, fun activities and great conversation-starters that will take children on a journey to find their role models and discover the hero inside themselves! Rink is a very unusual boy who grows beautiful flowers all over his body whenever the moon is full. In town and at school, Rink and his family are treated as outcasts although no-one knows his strange botanical secret.

But one day a new girl arrives at school, and Rink discovers she has some unique qualities of her own. Unless your mom yells at you for using a marker. Because after all, the things that make you different also make you YOU. From acclaimed actress Julianne Moore and award-winning illustrator LeUyen Pham comes a delightful story of a little girl who's different A young girl sits next to a boy named Louis at school. Louis has autism, but through imagination, kindness, and a special game of soccer, his classmates find a way to join him in his world. Then they can include Louis in theirs.

Marjorie is an insecure cow who wishes she had some special talent. She can't ride a bicycle or do handstands like the other cows. Then one morning thanks to a bunch of scheming chickens and a paintbrush , Marjorie is astonished to discover something extraordinary: Now she is lost and wandering.

Waiting for a rescue signal from her mother, she fails to make friends with the strange creatures she encounters. But at last, on a school playground, Beegu discovers a group of fantastic companions who are happy to let her join their games. Beegu's spirits are sinking lower than ever just as the mother ship arrives, in this simple, bittersweet picture book that shows us our world through the three eyes of an innocent outsider with the help of stylish art and a wry, understated text.

Broaden children's views of the world and learn about the daily lives of real students from places near and far, from Australia to South Korea. Where do children in Jordan learn? What subjects do they study in Egypt? From rural farms to busy cities to riverboats, this celebration of children around the world shows the many ways children are different and the many ways they are the same, no matter where they live. Elliot lives in America, and Kailash lives in India.

They are pen pals. By exchanging letters and pictures, they learn that they both love to climb trees, have pets, and go to school. Their worlds might look different, but they are actually similar. Through an inviting point-of-view and colorful, vivid illustrations, this story shows how two boys living oceans apart can be the best of friends. Some adore the fact that their braces dazzle and gleam, others feel distinguished when they wear their glasses.

Still others wouldn't trade their big feet for a lifetime of free video games. A mylar mirror embedded in the last page let kids take a look at themselves and decide what they like best about themselves. Kemba feels like the lamest kid in school. If only he could be cool like the computer game superhero Underdog. He has zero friends. Or so he thinks. Molly Lou Melon is short and clumsy, has buck teeth, and has a voice that sounds like a bullfrog being squeezed by a boa constrictor. Her grandmother has always told her to walk proud, smile big, and sing loud, and she takes that advice to heart.

But then Molly Lou has to start in a new school. A horrible bully picks on her on the very first day, but Molly Lou Melon knows just what to do about that. Nobody ever seems to notice him or think to include him in their group, game, or birthday party. So far so ordinary--but this is one persistent lady. Deborah seeks solace in her memories of Neil and their children and the love they shared. An ordinary woman caught up in an extraordinary situation.

A finely written page-turner, compelling, eloquent, heart-breaking. The Kindest Thing tackles a controversial topic with skill and sensitivity. A book that begs the question: Yuri Nikulin and Others Sid the Kindest Kid: New and Selected Ted Kooser. The Kindest Family Krista Bell. Volume 2 David Bruce. Kindest Thoughts Mary Hirose. The Kindest Lies John Lyle. Available Dark Elizabeth Hand. Gently in Trees Alan Hunter.