Kindness is a Kite String: The Uplifting Power of Empathy
Language: English
Published by Cardinal Rule Press, 2021
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Kindness is a Kite String: The Uplifting Power of Empathy
- Author
- Schaub, Michelle
- Publisher
- Cardinal Rule Press
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1733035982
- ISBN 13
- 9781733035989
- Illustrator
- LaForte, Claire
Cultivating kindness is easy when you try. Spread a little kindness and watch empathy ripple through the community… spreading happiness like sunshine, connecting diverse groups like a footbridge and lifting hope like a kite string.
How can YOU lift others with kindness?
This compelling book illustrates simple, yet impactful ways, to spread kindness and brighten the lives of others. Through poetry, the inspiring words uplift young readers, planting seeds of empathy, kindness and community support.
Kindness is a Kite String by Michelle Schaub carries the key message of kindness as well as how to teach similes and metaphors supported by the many advocates of positive parenting solutions. It'll sit comfortably on your shelf alongside other books that focus on the power of kindness. Like the work of Diane Alber (Scribble Stones) and Brandon Walden (Trees).
This book comes with a free Reader’s Guide for children. It includes reproducible handouts that ask children to create their own similes, metaphors and more. The guide is available for free download from the publisher website.
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About the Author
Michelle Schaub is an award-winning children's author and language arts teacher. Her previous books include Dream Big, Little Scientists, Finding Treasure: A Collection of Collections, and Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers' Market. Her poems appear in several anthologies, including Great Morning! Poems for School Leaders to Read Aloud. Michelle speaks at conferences on the power of poetry to boost literacy. Michelle lives near Chicago, where she loves finding creative ways to cultivate kindness. Learn more about Michelle at michelleschaub.com Claire LaForte (JungHwa Lee) is a former animator having worked in Seoul, South Korea for nine years. Now living in Buford, Georgia, her focus is on children's book illustration. Her passion for drawing began as a child sketching in the sand and on the rocks all about the remote little island on which she grew up in Korea's Yellow Sea. She likes to think her illustrations today are done with the same joy and enthusiasm as that little girl's on the island.
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