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Children's Book Selections about Kindness

Ages 0-4

  • Sharing: How Kindness Grows by Fran Shaw
  • The Nice Book by David Ezra Stein
  • Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale and Bruce McMillan
  • Emily's Sharing and Caring Book by Cindy Post Senning and Peggy Post
  • Kitty Shows Kindness by Mary Manz Simon

Ages 4-8

  • Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners by Laurie Keller
  • Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed by Emily Pearson
  • The Kindness Quilt by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
  • One Smile by Cindy McKinley
  • Stone Soup by Marcia Brown

Ages 9-12

  • Boxes for Katje by Candace Fleming
  • Kids' Random Acts of Kindness by Conari Press
  • Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
  • The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
  • Kindness: A Treasury of Buddhist Wisdom by Sarah Conover

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Funding for the Children's Book Selections
is provided by a generous grant
from International Paper.