This sweet book "Be Kind" by Pat Zietlow Miller and illustrated by Jen Hill gives many examples on how to be kind in our daily lives. The book starts off with an all-too-common scenario that any of us could encounter - a girl who has accidentally spilled juice on herself. As a bystander, the narrator does not join in teasing the girl but goes into thinking on what ways she could do to make the girl feel better. When her "usual" tactics does not work, the book then goes into m

"The Big Umbrella" is authored and illustrated by the mother-daughter team Amy June and Juniper Bates. It's a simple and sweet book without a lot of words. The main character, the Big Umbrella, is a red umbrella always with a nice friendly face. The big umbrella is personified with a sweet personality. It also tells what the big umbrella likes to do. It likes to help. It likes to give people shelter. It likes to bring people together. Throughout the book, the umbrella magical

Happy Thanksgiving! Today's book recommendation comes just in time for Thanksgiving. This children's book raises awareness about poverty and hunger as we follow two best friends who live in the same neighborhood, go to the same school, and play in the same park. While one friend's fridge at home is full of nutritious food, the other friend's fridge is empty. The comparison of the two friends' fridges sparks the EMPATHY of Sofia. Bound by a promise of not revealing this situat

This book won the 2017 Gold Moonbeam Children's Book Award: For dedication to children's books and literacy and for inspired writing, illustrating, and publishing. In a world full of fear and distrust, children are often taught by anxious parents to be careful and be wary of people. This book shares with readers that most people are good, kind and helpful, and that children don't need to be overly fearful of the world no matter how much the media communicates this. In the mid

“Just Ask” is beautifully illustrated by Rafael López and written by Sonia Sotomayor, the US Associate Supreme Court Justice. “Just Ask” is a lovely picture book about inclusion, empathy, and understanding everyone around us, no matter what your physical constraints might be. "Just Ask' offers simple explanations to common illnesses and disabilities that we often see around us, like diabetes, Down's syndrome, allergy, ADHD, blindness, etc. This book encourages its readers to