Picture Book

In this book without words, Mr. Crocodile gets up every morning and carefully gets ready for work -- but just what is his job?

While planting seeds in their garden, two animals learn the value of kindness.

When Mrs. Ruler asks five of her kindergarteners to miss recess, she's got a special plan up her sleeve. She's about to teach a new version of the golden rule: Kindness is cool! Soon the entire class is doing so many good deeds that their kindness bulletin board barely fits their classroom! From clearing the table after dinner, to helping the elderly, one kindergarten class is proving that kids really can make a difference. Count along with Mrs. Ruler's class. Can all their good deeds really add up to 100 acts of kindness?

When Mrs. Bear and little Sam deliver the cakes they have made for their friends in the neighborhood, Sam carries the cakes all by himself, through the snow and up to the front doors.

Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.

Two young Afghani girls living in a refugee camp in Pakistan share a precious pair of sandals brought by relief workers. Includes author's note about refugees.

When Leo, a weasel mailman, rescues a young bird who was separated from his flock, the two become friends and Leo's dream of one day receiving a letter of his own may finally come true.

When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.

When a griffin visits the town where a statue that bears his likeness graces the front of a church, the townspeople do not offer him a warm welcome but the Minor Canon, whom the townspeople convince to host the creature, develops a relationship with him.

A beautiful, golden, jewel-studded statue and a little swallow give all they have to help the poor.