What the World Needs Now. . . : The Kindness Book by Todd Parr

WHAT IS KINDNESS?

KINDNESS IS THINKING ABOUT OTHERS' FEELINGS AND HELPING THEM FEEL GOOD.

There are kind deeds--opening the door for someone, giving food to a food bank or flowers to someone who needs cheering up, or saying thank you, or welcoming someone new.

It can be avoiding doing things that hurt people's feelings or just being there when someone needs not to be alone. Kindness can be NOT doing things like making fun of someone having a bad hair day or sometimes letting people just be themselves. Kindness is saying, "I'm sorry" when you are not kind. Kindness can be just a smile or a wave to someone you know, or someone you don't know. Kindness can be helping plants grow or being nice to animals.

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DON'T FORGET TO BE KIND TO YOURSELF!

Author-illustrator Todd Parr, the emperor of emotions and professor of feelings, spreads the word in his recent The Kindness Book (Little, Brown and Company, 2019), designed to display the ways to spread good will to all. Parr's signature simple figures delineated with wide black lines show the many ways to be good to others and to ourselves, and are especially in tune for preschool and primary-age youngsters. Share this one with Parr's The Feelings Book.