Children's Books on Kindness

I've been asked to speak to a group of mothers of preschoolers at a
nearby church on the topic of kindness. I want to focus mostly on
ways to model kindness with our children but I thought it would be fun
to also provide a little bibliography of children's books that have
kindness as a theme.

Problem is, it's been a while since we were reading preschool books.
Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Dawn
Mom to Henry, 12

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iowacookiemom wrote:
I've been asked to speak to a group of mothers of preschoolers at a
nearby church on the topic of kindness. I want to focus mostly on
ways to model kindness with our children but I thought it would be fun
to also provide a little bibliography of children's books that have
kindness as a theme.

Problem is, it's been a while since we were reading preschool books.
Any suggestions?

No specific suggestions, but I did a google search for
children's literature kindness
and found a web site that lists books in various ways

http://raspberry.forest.net/FMPro?-d..._pizzazz&-view

including a listing of stories that reinforce the notion of kindess:

http://raspberry.forest.net/FMPro?-D...kindness&-Find

If you can't get the long URLs to work try googling "whootie".

Note: I've not checked these lists for quality or comprehensiveness.
They seem to be referring to folk tales that are on-line, rather than books.
The age level seems to be a bit higher than preschool also.


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iowacookiemom mentioned in passing :

I've been asked to speak to a group of mothers of preschoolers at a
nearby church on the topic of kindness. I want to focus mostly on
ways to model kindness with our children but I thought it would be fun
to also provide a little bibliography of children's books that have
kindness as a theme.

Problem is, it's been a while since we were reading preschool books.
Any suggestions?



We had a couple in a series called soemthing along the line of "Made by
Camel". I am, however, unable to find it via google, so it may be more than
ten years old. Those were good books, each with a moral less such as
kindness.

-Aula

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"iowacookiemom" wrote:

I've been asked to speak to a group of mothers of preschoolers at a
nearby church on the topic of kindness. I want to focus mostly on
ways to model kindness with our children but I thought it would be fun
to also provide a little bibliography of children's books that have
kindness as a theme.

Problem is, it's been a while since we were reading preschool books.
Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

You might try asking in the newsgroup rec.arts.books.childrens.

Peggy

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A dog can never tell you what she knows from the
smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know
almost nothing.

-- Mary Oliver

"iowacookiemom" wrote:

I've been asked to speak to a group of mothers of preschoolers at a
nearby church on the topic of kindness. I want to focus mostly on
ways to model kindness with our children but I thought it would be fun
to also provide a little bibliography of children's books that have
kindness as a theme.

Problem is, it's been a while since we were reading preschool books.
Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,


I would go to www.freespirit.com - they have a great catalog of books
that are geared toward helping children learn character and respect
for others.
Deb

There is a site that has ebooks which focus on things like sharing...
I use the books for all preschoolers but there is a focus more on kids
with disabilities. The site is:

www.sandbox-learning.com

If you look under the stories or the products you can find the
books.... they also have a Halloween safety book which is helpful for
young kids.

Hope this helps.
Annie

Thanks to all -- I got some great suggestions here and via e-mail and the
presentation went great.

-Dawn
Mom to Henry, 12