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4.42 AVERAGE
4.42 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
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A beautiful book about a too-true thing we all experience, some of us from one side and some from the other (and most of us from both sides at one point or another). If every child read this book, maybe it wouldn't happen as often. Or maybe every adult needs to read it and spread the lesson on. Or maybe both.
Love this sweet story of the importance of choosing to be kind before it's too late.
This book reminds me of the classic, The Hundred Dresses. Chloe and her friends are not welcoming to the new girl, Maya, who has old clothes. They don’t play with her or make an effort to get to know her. After the teacher does a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes she could have been kinder to Maya. Unfortunately, it’s too late as Maya has moved away. Not exactly a bullying theme, but a good read aloud about being kind and the consequences of our actions.
A powerful story! Very realistic situation and characters. The writing is strong and concise. It gives a high impact with few well-chosen words.
"Each Kindness" is a powerful book by Jacqueline Woodson. The topic of the book is bullying, and general "othering" in school. What is great is that Woodson does not overdue the bullying nor the characers reasons for doing so, and the result is a novel that stays with you, and finds ways of resonating for many days afterward.
I remembered reading this book in one of my college teaching classes, but couldn’t recall the story in much detail. I picked it up at the library and read with my kids, although I think they were a bit too young to really get the theme/lessons of the story in more than a basic sense.
Each Kindness could be useful in a classroom, but definitely not in a casual way. I think there is too much that isn’t made explicit in the story and that it needs both pre and post reading support for students to really get something out of it. Definitely a book that goes on the teacher materials shelf and not in the general classroom library.
Each Kindness could be useful in a classroom, but definitely not in a casual way. I think there is too much that isn’t made explicit in the story and that it needs both pre and post reading support for students to really get something out of it. Definitely a book that goes on the teacher materials shelf and not in the general classroom library.
Gorgeous illustrations and an overall great message, but a bit didactic for my tastes
With gorgeous watercolor illustrations and a very moving, important, and realistic story, this is a book all children should have read to them (and adults too!).
I picked it up for World Kindness Day read. The book will make the kiddos squirm. I haven't read it to them and I am thinking I will wait a bit before I do. The story is about bullying and unkindness that kids who stand out of the crowd have to experience in school. It is going to be hard book for them, because there isn't a happy ending at the end of this one. But, each of us eventually realises that life isn't just a series of happy endings and the book, even after all this grim tone, is going to be a gentler shock than experiencing this in real life. There is no escaping this. Even though this one pierced my heart, I am glad I chose this.