199 reviews for:

Each Kindness

Jacqueline Woodson

4.42 AVERAGE

abastone's review against another edition

4.0

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Good lesson, but still a bit sad. Important to realize you don't always get a second chance. We need to read The Hundred Dresses as well...
Reading Women Challenge 2020 #4: Picture book by a BIPOC Author

3435redbug's review against another edition

5.0

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Sometimes we are not given a second chance or an opportunity to fix our wrongs.

dtd's review against another edition

5.0

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Such a good lesson, beautifully and simply told.

swanlass94's review against another edition

4.0

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Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson is a book about a new girl that arrives in a class who is different from everybody. Her hair is a mess, her clothes are hand me downs, and she never talks to anybody. The main character has numerous opportunities to talk with the new girl and be friends with her, but she gives in to acting as her friends do and is very mean to the new girl. One day, the main character realizes her stupidity and wants to become friends with the new girl, but the new girl does not come to class ever again. I would read this story to present to children how their actions can affect each other and how important it is to be friendly and nice to everyone no matter their background.

nmramirez's review against another edition

5.0

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As an elementary school counselor, I read a lot of children's books because I love to use them with lessons. For the month (and obviously beyond), my school is focusing on kindness, and I've been waiting for my library to send me this book. What a beautiful message it conveys - both through text and images. I especially love and appreciate that the end isn't anything perfect or contrived, but rather, is messy and just is. I can definitely see myself using this with students and having a discussion about the importance of kindness and the ripple effects that it brings. I would recommend this for upper elementary and beyond.

virginiagp's review against another edition

4.0

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Each Kindness is one of Jacqueline Woodson's powerful picture books, and it addresses the ways that children can be unbelievably cruel to one another--particularly when they "gang together" against someone who is new or different. The book's main character, Chloe, and her friends won't play with Maya, the new girl who comes to their school. They consistently deny her joining their games, they make fun of her clothes and toys, and are hurtful in their dismissal of Maya. When their teacher has a lesson about kindness, Maya is absent, but Chloe realizes she may have been wrong in her treatment of Maya, and she makes a plan to treat her better. Unfortunately, Maya never returns to the school, and Chloe learns a bitter lesson about missed opportunities to be kind and make friends. This book stays with you long after you finish reading it, and is a great read-aloud to use with a class of students to emphasize the importance of treating others with respect.

remkosiak's review against another edition

4.0

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A very powerful book about simply being kind. I appreciate that it doesn't have a happy ending.

mlhahn's review against another edition

5.0

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A book that goes straight to your heart. Must-read. Gorgeous illustrations.

thereadingcountess's review against another edition

4.0

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A quietly told story about how to treat our fellow mankind through the eyes of a little girl and the ripple effect of a stone thrown into water.

A book couldn't get better than being written by THE Jacqueline Woodson. That is, only if her work was illustrated by THE E.B. Lewis.

Each Kindness would make a wonderful read aloud during the beginning days of school as classroom community and norms are established.

msrosereads's review against another edition

5.0

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Every kid gets the most silent and the most reflective in response to this incredible story of missed opportunity and regret.