Books like Each Kindness
By Jacqueline Woodson
For the kid learning that small choices about who to include can matter more than they seem, this book sits with the discomfort of getting it wrong. Quiet, reflective, a little heartbreaking, with watercolor illustrations that hold space for regret.
When a new girl is bullied and left in tears, another child feels helpless and upset — until a small act of kindness sparks a whole community to stand together against it.
Imprisoned with her family at a WWII incarceration camp, a young woman finds a small library and, in it, a quiet friendship with a man who checks out an armful of books every single day.
A boy named Dat starts school in a new country where every word sounds like gibberish, until a classmate finds another way to reach him besides talking.
A rhyming, day-in-the-life look at a school where kids from every background arrive, share their traditions and talents, and are welcomed exactly as they are.
A gentle pony too plain for the beautiful horses inside the walled city ends up the only one who can save its children when the bridge breaks in half.
In a busy city where everyone rushes past, a boy named Will notices an injured bird on the ground and, with his mother's help, gently carries it home to care for it.
A picture-book biography traces Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s path from a childhood in the segregated South to becoming a minister and civil rights leader, told through his own powerful words.
A little mouse named Chrysanthemum loves her name until classmates like Victoria and Jo tease her for being named after a flower, leaving her wilted and unsure how to feel about herself again.
A lyrical picture book celebrates self-worth, kindness, and respect for others, reminding every child who reads it that they have purpose and are already enough.
A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother every Sunday, grumbling about the rain and the wait, until she helps him see the beauty and music hiding in their ordinary route.
A skilled quiltmaker refuses to make a quilt for a rich, unhappy king unless he gives away everything he owns — and the more he gives, the happier he becomes.
A penniless orphan boy travels to London hoping to find his fortune, and it's his clever cat's rat-catching skill that changes both their lives forever.
