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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sincerely, Emerson follows eleven-year-old Emerson Weber as she writes a letter of thanks to her postal carrier, Doug, and creates a nationwide outpouring of love."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Helping her Mama decorate the house, bake cupcakes, and make valentines for all six of her siblings for Valentine's Day, Mia Valentina Amore wonders if her Mama has forgotten her when she doesn't receive her own valentine.
44) Goat's coat
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
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All Together Now - Children's Books about Kindness, Friendship, and Community
Children's Books about Kindness
Children's Books about Kindness
Description
Alfonzo the goat is very happy wearing his new coat to stroll through the forest, but as he helps a series of friends in need, his coat becomes increasingly shabby.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
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Description
This celebration of kindness follows Maisy and her friends as they spread joy around them by sharing toys, making cards and gifts, nurturing animals, caring for the environment, and looking out for one another.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 14 hr.): sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Mister Rogers as he puts on his cardigan, changes into his sneakers, and introduces the day's topic. Each of the 30 episodes in this collection features Mister Rogers tackling important topics for children including understanding what's real and what's pretend, and the feelings of winning and losing.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume...
49) The vulnerables
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.
Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (225 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A preacher's daughter begins an unlikely romance with a popular boy at school while keeping a secret from everyone; inspired by an assignment from his teacher, a young boy attempts to make the world a better place by doing good deeds for three strangers, paying them "forward" instead of paying someone back.
52) Paletero man
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ring! Ring! Ring! Can you hear his call? Paletas for one! Paletas for all! What's the best way to cool off on a hot summer day? Run quick and find Paletero Jose! Follow along with our narrator as he passes through his busy neighborhood in search of the Paletero Man. But when he finally catches up with him, our narrator's pockets are empty. Oh no! What happened to his dinero?"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin Young Readers Group, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. In this new board book format, the very youngest readers can learn about one of America's icons in the series's signature lively, conversational style. The short text focuses on drawing inspiration from these iconic heroes, and includes an interactive element and factual tidbits that young...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What Kind Of World Do You Want? Faizah knows just how to answer her teacher's question: She wants a kind world, as special as her sister's hijab, a world of friends helping one another. Faizah spends school-picture day finding fun ways to help her classmates. but when picture day takes an unexpected turn, Faizah learns that acts of kindness can come back to you in beautiful ways. In empowering words and breathtaking illustrations, the award-winning,...
57) The cool bean
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Everyone knows the cool beans. They're sooooo cool. And then there's the uncool has-bean. Always on the sidelines, one bean unsuccessfully tries everything he can to fit in with the crowd--until one day the cool beans show him how it's done"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dragonboy and his friends find ways to explore and discover inside their house, counting hearts that appear with each act of kindness someone performs"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
148 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chase, Skye, Marshall, and the rest of Nickelodeon’s PAW Patrol are always already to lend a helping paw to a friend in need. Join them as they help an itchy monkey, calm a worried friend, and help someone to the doctor’s office. These are just a few of the nine tales that celebrate helping, kindness, and serving your community in this hardcover collection of stories that can each be read aloud in five minutes or less.
60) A small kindness
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"It was like a game of tag, with one small act of kindness spreading throughout a small community of kids and teachers alike. Award-winning children's book author Stacy McAnulty packs a powerful punch with minimal text, providing a sweet message about all the small ways one can be kind. Illustrator Wendy Leach creates a diverse cast of characters while using color as a visual cue to how kindness is able to spread, even in a small community like a...
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