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The Flint Michigan Library offers this list of children’s books focused on kindness (http://www.flint.lib.mi.us/fpl/kindness/index.shtml):

    • The Brand New Kid by Katie Couric.  Lazlo, Hungarian immigrant, is ostracized at school until two girls have the courage to befriend him.
    • Bully by Janine Amos. Examines what it is like for a child to be a bully and shows the effect it has on others.
    • The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss. A boy finds out that caring for a seed brings a reward in time.
    • Creativity by John Steptoe. Charles helps a student who has just moved from Puerto Rico, adjust to his new life.
    • Don’t Need Friends by Carolyn Crimi. After his best friend moves away, Rat rudely rebuffs the efforts of the other residents of the junkyard to be friendly, until he and a grouchy old dog decide that they need each other.
    • Don’t Rant & Rave On Wednesdays! The Children’s Anger-Control Book by Adolph Moser. Dr. Moser clearly defines this complicated emotion, and offers workable suggestions to help youngsters control their anger.
    • Enemy Pie by Derek Munson. Told through the eyes of a young boy, this terrific story tells how to make friends and how enemies are unmade.
    • The Hating Book by Charlotte Zolotow. A little girl knew her friend hated her but didn’t know why until she got up the courage to ask.
    • I Like Your Buttons! by Sarah Lamstein. When a little girl compliments her teacher about the buttons on her outfit, it starts a chain reaction of goodwill throughout the day.
    • If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff.  If you give a mouse a cookie, be prepared to spend the whole day doing everything under the sun for him!
    • Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella Story by Jewell Reinhart Coburn with Tzexa Cherta Lee. The kind sprit of Jouanah’s mother helps her daughter to eventually marry a wealthy village elder’s son.
    • Little Miss Spider at Sunny Patch School by David Kirk. On her first day at school, Little Miss Spider worries that she cannot do what the others can.
    • The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby. When a new boy in his second grade class tries to get the other students to play a game that involves saying the meanest things possible to one another, Little Bill shows him a better way to make friends.
    • El Pez Arco Iris Al Rescate! by Marcus Pfister. This Spanish translation of “The Rainbow Fish to the Rescue” teaches children how to accept others.
    • The Ugly Caterpillar by Carl Sommer.  Speckles, the spider, and Crumbs, the cricket, think a caterpillar is too ugly to be their friend but Annie, the ant, insists that something beautiful might be inside.
    • Wizzil by William Steig. A bored witch causes trouble when she decides to take revenge on an old man.