"...a beautiful book with a beautiful message...the book shows young children how easy it is to be kind through small acts and in simple ways..."-R.J. Palacio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder
What Does It Mean to Be Kind? is a rare kindness book for children because it uses a proactive, not reactive, introduction to a conversation about kindness.
Part of the award-winning What Does It Mean to Be...? series, What Does It Mean to Be Kind? explains the idea of kindness in an accessible and understandable way.
Being kind means...
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. What Does it Mean to Be Kind? is a teacher must-have for the classroom, and for parents in search of kindness and feelings books for children.
More Awards for What Does It Mean to Be Kind?2015 Moonbeam Gold Medalist
This is Book 9 in the What Does it Mean to be...? Series. See all What Does it Mean to be...? books here.
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Rana DiOrio, was born in Providence, RI and grew up in a colorful Italian-American family. Her curiosity about the world began in kindergarten, while studying Western access to China and, obviously, panda bears. As a political science major/psychology minor in college, and then as a law student, she became fascinated with understanding perspective, and how j
More about Rana DiOrioRichardo Keens-Douglas, an actor, playwright, author, and storyteller, has published six previous picture books for children, including "The Trial of the Stone" and "The Nutmeg Princess." His works have appeared on American Bookseller's "Pick of the Lists" and been nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Silver Birch Award, among others. He
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