Try a Little Kindness by Henry Cole - OPTIONAL

Try a Little Kindness by Henry Cole.  PICTURE BOOK. Scholastic Press.  October 2018.  $18.  9781338256413

BUYING ADVISORY:  EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

Our friends from the animal world show us a variety of ways that we can choose to be kind.  

Such a good heart in this book, but kind of odd in execution.  A couple of the suggestions have several illustrations demonstrating the idea, but most of them have only one illustration.  I found that a rhythm killer, being unable to predict how much information I was going to receive, or that those concepts were less important. Also, maybe it was a way to entertain himself and the adults reading the book to children, but many of the illustrations are sarcastic – like a chicken playing Red Rover with a group of foxes, a fly admiring a spider’s web, a pig asking a wolf what’s for dessert.  These character pairings are so improbable and even small children will notice the unusual pairings and probably comment on them without understanding the sarcasm of them.

Cindy, Middle School Librarian