Kindness makes us strong [Board Book]/

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Whether we share a toy or include someone in a game, all acts of kindness - no matter how big or small - make the world a better place.



Kindness is doing what you can, where you are, with what you have, and in Kindness Makes Us Strong , Sophie Beer introduces us to a bunch of cute kids doing just that. Shortlisted for the 2020 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2020 ABIA Children's Picture Book of the Year

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Kirkus Book Review

Kindness is a skill, and this book is the perfect way to practice it.Each double-page spread begins with the sentence stem "Kindness is...," which is then followed by illustrated examples of children caring for the peers, adults, and animals around them. In this follow-up to Love Makes a Family (2018), Beer populates the pages with children who practice a range of skills, from simply saying hello to being patient. She masterfully pairs fairly abstract ideas, such as offering comfort and reaching out, with pictures that elucidate the term in child-friendly situations, such as a preschool musical performance or playing dress up. The rhythmic, repetitive text makes this book an excellent read-aloud as well as a fun and rewarding choice for children who are beginning to read independently. The vibrant illustrations blaze with movement and light and, perhaps most importantly, are peopled with diverse characters with varied skin colors, hair textures, ethnicities, and abilities (one child has a prosthetic leg, another uses a wheelchair, two wear glasses). The curated examples are empowering: Each example of kindness is an action that a child can take independently, without adult supervision, and regardless of ability status. Furthermore, because they all take place in child-friendly settings such as playgrounds or classrooms, they can be easily relatednot to mention appliedto real life.A gorgeously illustrated, cleanly written introduction to the art of kindness. (Board book. 1-4) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Sophie Beer is an award-winning author and illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. She works primarily in children's books, having published with Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Walker, Scholastic, Hardie Grant and many more. As an illustrator, she has worked with Disney/Pixar, Google and the Sydney Opera House, and she has collaborated with Myer for her own line of children's homewares. When she's not illustrating and writing, she thinks a lot about plants, animals, music, books and social justice.



There are nearly 700,000 Sophie Beer books in print across Australia, New Zealand, and North America.