Give
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
A gorgeous and powerful book about how simple acts of kindness can change the world.
Pay It Forward. Random Acts of Kindness. The Golden Rule. Choose Kind.
As parents, teachers, grandparents, aunts and uncles, we hope to teach children compassion, kindness, and selflessness.
With a gentle, poignant text by Jen Arena, and colorful, detailed illustrations by Rahele Jomepour Bell, this unforgettable story shows the power of simple acts of kindness and the potential to change other people’s days for the better.
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Arena (Salsa Lullaby) portrays a group of schoolchildren cultivating a culture of generosity in this pay-it-forward picture book. Alongside a starting phrase—"Sometimes bad things happen"—Jomepour Bell (Our Favorite Day of the Year) paints a child whose blue hair ribbon blows away in a rainy gust of wind. Another kid, passing by with a wrapped gift, promptly unties the box's ribbon and passes it over. "Give what you have," a line reads. A second spread focuses more closely on the two, conveying the new bond that giving has wrought. They join classmates portrayed with varying skin tones entering a school building in companionable pairs. "Sometimes we get cold.// Give warmth," accompanies an image of the child with the new hair ribbon draping their own fuzzy scarf around a shivering schoolmate, who later passes their pencil to a teacher to replace one that has snapped ("Sometimes something breaks.// Give something new"). Via simple lines and saturated, stroke-heavy art, the considerate cast places readers in a classroom where mutual care and its pleasures are part of the fabric of togetherness: "The good you do comes back to you." Ages 4–8. Author's agent: Jennifer Mattson, Andrea Brown Literary. Illustrator's agent: Christy Tugeau Ewers, CAT Agency.
