Each Kindness

Maya is friendly, generous, and courageous and tries to make friends at her new school, but Chloe and her friends reject Maya’s approaches due to her second-hand clothes and old-fashioned toys. One day Maya does not come to school as her family has moved and following a lesson on the impact of small kindnesses, Chloe is regretful that she never showed kindness to Maya. This poignant picture book could be used as a read-aloud for grades K-3, added to a class or school library, and can launch discussion of important topics of kindness, friendship, inclusion, exclusion, diversity, bullying, the effects of withholding friendship, and the impact of one’s actions.