BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL, MS, HS - ESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
When Tanisha spills grape juice on herself in class everyone laughs at her. The main character does not laugh, but instead starts brainstorming ways to be kind to Tanisha to help her feel better. Told in first-person free verse, the child narrator thinks about what it means to be kind. Does it mean helping or giving or paying attention?
The narrator relates that being kind isn't always easy, but through small things, kindness builds and comes back to you. This book is wonderful for all ages. Children from kindergarten to high school need reminders of what it means to be kind. The main character will usually read as female and white, but androgynous clothes and black hair make them more ambiguous. Tanisha is black, and the other children and characters in the story are illustrated as a wide variety of ethnicities.
Rachel, Elementary School Librarian
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