- How Do I Stand in Your Shoes? by Susan DeBell
- I Can Make My World a Safer Place: A Kid's Book About Stopping Violence by Paul Kivel
- Kids' Random Acts of Kindness by Conari Press
- Kindness Counts! by Debby Anderson
- Kindness Is Cooler, Mrs. Ruler by Margery Cuyler and Sachiko Yoshikawa
- One Caring Kid: A Book about You-And What Your Kindness Can Do! by Michaelene Mundy and R. W. Alley
- Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed by Emily Pearson and Fumi Kosaka
- Sharing: How Kindness Grows by Fran Shaw and Miki Sakamoto
- The Kindness Quilt by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
- Understanding the Human Volcano: What Teens Can Do About Violence by Earl Hipp
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.

