Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, stories, and talents are shared.

Simple text and collage illustrations remind the reader that we are stronger together than alone.

When Tanisha spills grape juice all over her new dress, her classmate contemplates how to make her feel better and what it means to be kind. From asking the new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied, this thoughtful story explores what a child can do to be kind, and how each act, big or small, can make a difference.

Explores the different types of communities people create to meet their need for companionship. Includes glossary.

A spacious umbrella welcomes anyone and everyone who needs shelter from the rain.

Every person is unique, so assigning characteristics to everyone in a group, regardless of whether it’s by race, religion, gender, or sexual preference, is a fool’s errand. This book helps students put aside stereotypes and prejudices so that they can treat everybody as the individual they are.

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.

This title is also available for checkout as an eAudio on Libby and as a Movie and as an eAudio on Hoopla. 

Elmore is a porcupine desperate to make friends but it is hard to seek closeness with others when you’re covered with spikes; however, the goodness of his forest community ultimately shines through as the animals find a way to connect with this prickly bundle of love.

When a beloved tree gets sick, the human and animal communities work together to give it a new life.

Norma and her parents are going to her great-uncle Frank’s funeral, and Norma is more excited than sad. She is looking forward to playing with her favorite cousin, Ray, but when she arrives at the church, she is confronted with rituals and ideas that have never occurred to her before. While not all questions can be answered, when the day is over Norma is certain of one thing: Uncle Frank would have enjoyed his funeral. This sensitive and life-affirming story will lead young readers to ask their own questions about life, death and how we remember those who have gone before us.

A young girl’s seed of an idea to clean up an abandoned inner city lot grows into something big when neighbors work together to create a garden full of color and life.

A child recognizes his own humanity, his capacity for doing harm and being harmed, his ability to feel joy and sadness, and his belief in hope and promise to keep learning. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby or as eBook on Hoopla.

A child starts to get carried away with worry and rushing thoughts before taking a breath, steadying, observing thoughts, feeling kindness, feeling thankful, and experiencing the world. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby or as eBook on Hoopla.

An elementary school girl witnesses the bullying of another girl, but she is not sure how to help.

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

Mira lives in a gray and hopeless urban community until a muralist arrives and, along with his paints and brushes, brings color, joy, and togetherness to Mira and her neighbors. 

This title is also available for checkout in print in Spanish and as an eBook on Libby and/or an eBook, eAudio and movie in both English and Spanish on Hoopla.  

A young boy transforms his neighborhood by performing one good deed for his neighbor, which leads to a chain of kind and helpful actions.

A perfect square that is perfectly happy is torn into pieces, punched with holes, crumpled, and otherwise changed but finds in each transformation that it can be something new, and just as happy.

A boy is excluded from joining his friends’ pet club because of his unusual pet.

When Taylor’s block castle is destroyed, all the animals think they know just what to do, but only the rabbit quietly listens to how Taylor is feeling. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby or as eAudio on Hoopla.

Learn how to treat everyone equally, and help them find help when needed.

Photographs and simple text celebrate friendship, diversity, and acceptance.

Intolerance is a complex issue, but readers are introduced to it in a way that leaves them feeling enlightened and not overwhelmed. Informative, accessible text presents a basic definition of intolerance as well as relatable examples that readers could see in their daily lives and on the news.