Award-winning author Richard Van Camp wrote this book to express his gratitude for all that surrounds him and his family.

The strength of their connections, the nature that provides for them, the love that is endless. Complemented by photos from photographers who celebrate their own gratefulness on the collective blog Tea & Bannock, the simple verse in May We Have Enough to Share is the perfect way to start or end your little one's days in gratitude.

Barack Obama delivers a tender, beautiful letter to his daughters in this powerful picture book illustrated by award-winner Loren Long that's made to be treasured

In this poignant letter to his daughters, Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation. From the artistry of Georgia O'Keeffe, to the courage of Jackie Robinson, to the patriotism of George Washington, Obama sees the traits of these heroes within his own children, and within all of America's children.

Breathtaking, evocative illustrations by award-winning artist Loren Long at once capture the personalities and achievements of these great Americans and the innocence and promise of childhood.

This beautiful book celebrates the characteristics that unite all Americans, from our nation's founders to generations to come. It is about the potential within each of us to pursue our dreams and forge our own paths. It is a treasure to cherish with your family forever.

Book Features:
-16 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches
- Ages 4-7, PreK-Grade 2, Guided Reading Level A, Lexile BR60L
- Easy-to-read pages with full-color photos
- Includes a reading comprehension activity
- Photo glossary and high frequency word list included

Making Good Choices: I Make Good Choices, part of the Kid Citizen series, helps emerging preschool--2nd grade readers develop basic literacy skills while learning important social concepts such as making good decisions in a fun and engaging way.

Inspiring Students: We make lots of choices every day. What good choices can you make? The 16-page leveled text encourages beginning readers to think about the choices they make every day and why they matter.

Learning Made Fun: More than just an engaging read about the importance of making good choices, this kids book features a reading comprehension activity, photo glossary, and a list of high frequency words for added reading engagement.

Leveled Books: Vibrant, full-color photos and leveled text work together to engage children and promote reading comprehension skills while fostering an interest in thinking over the choices young learners make every day.

Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Discover 100 creative ways to express gratitude for all that's good in your life with this powerful little book, packed with positive thoughts, practical ideas, and take-action prompts.

Rejoice in snow days Make time for belly laughs Pause to marvel at the wonders of nature In today's hectic, fast-paced, overscheduled world, so many of us -- including kids -- try to do it all. This book offers up unique ways to slow down, be mindful, and appreciate life's little gifts. The pages are filled with inspiration and motivation on how to be appreciative and pass along kindness. Interviews with National Geographic explorers offer examples of ways to give back. Uplifting quotes and ideas are sure to motivate readers to do more and be more mindful every day, so we all come away with a renewed sense that life is pretty great

Why do some students fall apart after high school, while others go on to become great leaders? In Teen Leadership Revolution, youth speaker Tom Thelen explores the unwritten code of character, relationships, and leadership that successful teens use to navigate the storms of life and become great leaders. Teen Leadership Revolution is the first book that provides teens with the reasons and methods for developing rock solid character, building authentic relationships, and growing leadership qualities for the long haul. TEENS DISCOVER HOW TO: Apply Bullyproof Strategies that work. Overcome bitterness with forgiveness, Flex the muscle of self-discipline, Navigate the Four Levels of Leadership, Become the leaders they were meant to be Tom Thelen's message gives students practical strategies for taking responsibility and developing rock solid character. His presentation takes students on a journey through his own life story including a counseling program he experienced as a teen and how he learned to use self-discipline to overcome great adversity. He goes on to describe real-life success stories of today's students who are making a difference. Tom is a gifted motivator who relates to teens with stories that touch the heart and make them laugh. His high-energy school assembly programs provide an experience students never forget. Tom lives in Michigan with his wife Casie and their four children. When you find healing from your bitterness, you are set free to become fully yourself. Only then can you grow into the leader you were meant to be. - Tom Thelen QUESTION: Does this book contain any political or religious content? ANSWER: Nope. Tom's message includes universal values that we all agree on like Respect, Responsibility, and Self-Esteem. TOM DOES NOT write or speak on the topics of politics, religion, or sexuality. At Character Programs, we believe these topics are best discussed between students and their parents. BOOK TOM THELEN to speak at your event www.TomThelen.com.

Our amazing planet is home to a diverse variety of life-learn how we can protect and conserve it for generations to come.

DK Super Planet Sharing the Planet is part of the new DK Super Planet series for children aged 5-7 to learn all about Earth's materials and resources and how these support our lives.

Captivating and curriculum-aligned, this book is the perfect support for learning about the wonders of our planet. It covers core scientific content, including what finite and renewable resources are, why certain species are endangered, and the importance of conservation.

This science book for children offers:

• A guide to reading through curriculum-aligned content and exciting illustrations.
• A highly visual approach that makes the association between words and where they originate easier to understand.
• Material to help children become more confident readers, speakers, and spellers.

Captivating and curriculum-aligned content, diagrams, and hands-on experiments provide an immersive learning experience while covering core information about a range of ecosystems.

With specially designed sections that build scientific vocabulary and make complex concepts accessible to children, Sharing the Planet is the ideal companion to any science learning. Transform learning into an adventure with DK Super Planet, bringing science to life on every page.

You're fabulous when you are free to be yourself! This beautiful board book, from the bestselling and beloved creator of Love Makes a Family and Kindness Makes Us Strong, embraces the gender spectrum and encourages self-expression, regardless of labels.

Whether you like wearing sparkly tutus or stomping around in big boots, having messy fun or needing quiet time, this stunning rainbow board book from award-winning illustrator Sophie Beer affirms and celebrates it all - even if it changes day by day.

Featuring cute kids, diverse family and community groups, and inclusive representation, readers young and old will love seeing themselves and their communities gathered together. With rounded edges, sturdy pages and gentle spot gloss, this high-quality, larger-format board book will be plenty of fun for little hands!

The perfect board book for:

• Babies and toddlers aged 0-4 years
• Rainbow and queer families
• Toddlers and preschoolers exploring new activities and ways to express themselves
• Gift-givers for pregnancy and baby showers

Explore more gorgeous Sophie Beer stories from Bright Light:

• Loves Makes a Family
• Kindness Makes Us Strong
• Change Starts with Us
• How to Say Hello
• Twelve Days of Kindness
• Welcome Little One
• Mama Bear and Me
• You're a Rainbow, Baby (coming soon!)

The perfect companion to William J. Bennett's bestseller The Book of Virtues, The Children's Book of Virtues is the ideal storybook for parents and children to enjoy together.

With selections from The Book of Virtues, from Aesop and Robert Frost to George Washington's life as well as Native American and African folklore, The Children's Book of Virtues brings together timeless stories and poems from around the world.

The stories have been chosen especially for a young audience to help parents introduce to their children the essentials of good character: courage, perseverance, responsibility, work, self-discipline, compassion, faith, honesty, loyalty, and friendship.

Lavishly illustrated by the well-known artist Michael Hague, these wonderful stories and the virtues they illustrate come to life on these pages.

The Children's Book of Virtues is an enduring treasury of literature and art that will help lead young minds toward what is noble and gentle and fine.

A child who can't follow rules is a child who's always in trouble. This book starts with simple reasons why we have rules: to help us stay safe, learn, be fair, and get along. Then it presents just four basic rules: Listen, Best Work, Hands and Body to Myself, and Please and Thank You. The focus throughout is on the positive sense of pride that comes with learning to follow rules. Includes questions and activities adults can use to reinforce the ideas and skills being taught.

The Learning to Get Along(R) Series
The Learning to Get Along series helps children learn, understand, and practice basic social and emotional skills. Real-life situations, lots of diversity, and concrete examples make these read-aloud books appropriate for home and childcare settings, schools, and special education settings. Each book ends with a section of discussion questions, games, and activities adults can use to reinforce what children have learned. All titles are available in English-Spanish bilingual editions.

The Guru Inside Me Says... is an inspiring and beautifully illustrated children's book.

Parents and educators will appreciate the simplicity of this book.

It teaches powerful lessons of the ten Sikh Gurus, with universal moral values on each page.

This book makes a wonderful keepsake for any little gurus in your life.

Bullying is a major problem for kids everywhere. Readers will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about what bullying is and how it affects people. They will also find out how to avoid being on either side of a bullying relationship, as well as how to react if they notice other people being bullied. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

Young people need guidance from caring adults to build strong, positive character traits--but they can also build their own. This book by the best-selling author of The Kid's Guide to Social Action invites children and teens to explore and practice honesty, kindness, empathy, integrity, tolerance, patience, respect, and more.

Quotations and background information set the stage. Dilemmas challenge readers to think about, discuss, and debate positive traits. Activities invite them to explore what they stand for at school, at home, and in their communities. True stories profile real kids who exemplify positive traits; resources point the way toward character-building books, organizations, programs, and Web sites.

Super Duper Grateful Me is an inspiring interactive picture book that introduces children to the magic of gratitude. With vibrant, heartwarming illustrations and upbeat rhyming verses, it takes readers through a day in the life of a young girl as she notices all the things-big and small-to be grateful for in her world. Through its relatable examples, children can easily grasp what gratitude means and what it looks like in their everyday life.

Part of what makes this book so special is that it ends by prompting readers to share what they're grateful for, giving families, teachers, and wellness practitioners a simple way to spark conversations AND engage in a consistent practice that fosters real growth and development. By working that muscle in the moment, children go beyond conceptual learning to experience what gratitude feels like first hand. Once they discover its power, they'll be forever changed.

Super Duper Grateful me is perfect for children ages 3-8. It is the first book in the SUPER DUPER KIDS series, with others-including a gratitude journal for kids-in development. From toddlers to elementary aged kids, this book will promote a positive growth mindset for all the little ones in your world.

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Sharing is a social skill all children need to learn--the sooner the better. Concrete examples and reinforcing illustrations help children practice sharing, understand how and why to share, and realize the benefits of sharing. Includes a note to teachers and parents, additional information for adults, and activities.

Kindness is my Superpower (Spanish Edition)

Enseña a tus hijos el poder de ser amable, una de las habilidades más importantes que un niño puede aprender.

Perteneces al 90% de padres cuya prioridad principal es que sus hijos sean solidarios? Genial! Estás en el lugar correcto. Ser amable y preocuparse por los demás son dos de las virtudes morales más valoradas en casi todas las sociedades y religiones del mundo.

El mejor libro sobre aprendizaje socioemocional (ASE) para enseñar a los niños a ser solidarios.

Esta encantadora historia con rimas e ilustraciones coloridas para niños explicará a tu hijo que es normal equivocarse y decir 'lo siento'. Lucas enseñará a los niños comportamientos positivos y cómo ser amable en casa, en la escuela, en la tienda y en el colegio.

Los niños aprenden mejor con ejemplos.

Lucas muestra ejemplos con el fin de que tu hijo entienda mejor a otras personas y acepte la diversidad para crecer en el ambiente multicultural e inclusivo actual, mostrando más empatía. En esta historia, Lucas, un pequeño superhéroe, aprenderá qué significa ser amable y comprenderá la importancia de la amabilidad, la sensibilidad, el cariño y la generosidad.

Ideas cotidianas para ser amable.

También incluye ideas para ser amable y fomentar la empatía y la solidaridad.

...

Ser amable es algo muy fácil de aprender,

es cuando pides y das algo solo para complacer.

Ayuda a otras personas y fíjate en lo que te digo:

Si eres amable, otras personas serán amables contigo.

...

La amabilidad es mi Superpoder se ha escrito para niños de todas las edades. Recomendado para padres, maestros, profesores, educadores y cualquier persona que trabaje con niños.

How can we make the world a better place?

This inspiring resource for middle-grade readers is organized as a dictionary; each entry presents a word related to creating a better world, such as ally, empathy, or respect. For each word, there is a poem, a quote from an inspiring person, a personal anecdote from the authors, and a try it prompt for an activity.

This second poetic collaboration from Irene Latham and Charles Waters builds upon themes of diversity and inclusiveness from their previous book Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship. Illustrations from Iranian-British artist Mehrdokht Amini offer readers a rich visual experience.

Latham and Waters's personal stories are plainspoken and relatable . . . and the suggested actions, accessible. . . The approach creates multiple pathways for engagement. Extensive supplementary materials include an index of poetic forms.--starred, Publishers Weekly

Kids learn the ABCs of belonging and expand their view of themselves and their community.

B Is for Belonging uses the ABCs as an accessible framework to explore the importance of belonging. Understanding and learning about belonging helps kids boost their self-confidence, build positive relationships, and foster empathy and inclusion.

Aa. When you accept other people without judging them or asking them to change, you help them know that they belong. Bb. When you are welcomed and loved exactly as you are, you feel that you belong.

Making a distinction between belonging and fitting in, B Is for Belonging empowers kids to show acceptance for others and themselves and create communities of belonging. With an uplifting and positive tone, this book shares the power and joy of belonging.

A section at the back of the book includes discussion questions and activity ideas.

A clear explanation of what gender is, and how to explore your own.

This is a kids book about gender. This book isn't meant to answer all the questions or tell you how you identify. It's meant to help kids and grownups understand gender and create an open and safe environment for kids to question, experiment, and discover their authentic selves.

This book helps to start discussions about gender with kids aged 5-9 and form understandings about identity. Gender can be difficult to define, but it's something that's a part of all of us and who we are.

A Kids Book About Gender features:

- A large and bold, yet minimalist font design that allows kids freedom to imagine themselves in the words on the pages.
- A friendly, approachable, yet empowering, kid-appropriate tone throughout.
- An incredible and diverse group of authors in the series who are experts or have first-hand experience of the topic.

Tackling important discourse together!

The A Kids Book About series are best used when read together. Helping to kickstart challenging, empowering, and important conversations for kids and their grownups through beautiful and thought-provoking pages. The series supports an incredible and diverse group of authors, who are either experts in their field, or have first-hand experience on the topic.

A Kids Co. is a new kind of media company enabling kids to explore big topics in a new and engaging way. With a growing series of books, podcasts and blogs, made to empower. Learn more about us online by searching for A Kids Co.

...a beautiful book with a beautiful message...the book shows young children how easy it is to be kind through small acts and in simple ways...--R.J. Palacio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder

What Does It Mean to Be Kind? is a rare kindness book for children because it uses a proactive, not reactive, introduction to a conversation about kindness.

Part of the award-winning What Does It Mean to Be...? series, What Does It Mean to Be Kind? explains the idea of kindness in an accessible and understandable way.

Being kind means...

Smiling at the new student in class.

Giving someone a compliment.

Celebrating the differences in others.

When the girl in the red hat finds the courage to be kind to the new student in class, her kindness spreads. Kind act by kind act, her whole community experiences the magical shift that happens when everyone understands--and acts on--what it means to be kind. What Does it Mean to Be Kind? is a teacher must-have for the classroom, and for parents in search of kindness and feelings books for children.

More Awards for What Does It Mean to Be Kind?

• ?2015 Moonbeam Gold Medalist