Many great ideas from wonderful, sharing colleagues!
My query:
I am looking for a story featuring the themes of compassion and/or
consideration (as in "thoughtful and sympathetic regard") that would
be appropriate to read to a group of
3 to 5 year olds at a holiday program. We have a diverse cultural
student body and feel these qualities are emphasized in all religions
and do not want a story that features one denomination. Does
anything like this exist? It does not have to have a holiday theme.
The responses:
Search the Children's Picture Book Database at
http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/search/
Hughes, Shirley, DAVID AND DOG
McPhail, David, LOOK AT THE TEDDY BEAR - Don't forget to read the
back jacket flap.
Aliki, FEELINGS
How about HOW KIND by Mary Murphy (Candlewick, 2002)? It's a simple
story, appropriate for this age level, about animals each doing good
turns for one another, and there's even a refrain of "How kind!" that
listeners can shout out. Great read aloud, nondenominational, and
appropriate message.
Here is my list of compassion books. They are not all the level you
wanted, but I've highlighted the ones I would recommend.
Alexander and the wind-up mouse*Leo Lionni
Andy and the lion...Daughtery
Best Christmas pageant ever*Barbara Robinson
Best train set ever*Pat Hutchins
Bright April*Marguerite DeAngeli
Charlotte's web...E.B. White
Children's book of virtues...Wm. Bennett
Christmas with Ida Early*R. Burch
Coming to America*Betsy Maestro
Corduroy*Don Freeman
The dollhouse murders*Betty Ren Wright
First one step, then another...Tomie de Paola
The flunking of Joshua T. Bates*S. Shreve
Foundling fox*I. Korschanow
Gladys told me to meet her here*M. Sharmat
Harlequin and the gift of many colors*R. Charlip
The hundred dresses*Eleanor Estes
Ida Early comes over the mountain*R. Burch
Knee-knock rise*Natalie Babbit
The lion and the mouse...Aesop
Mama, do you love me...Joose
Marvin Redpost, is he a girl?...Louis Sachar
May I visit*Charlotte Zolotow
Molly's pilgrim*Barbara Cohen
Mooch the messy*M. Sharmat
New life, new room*J. Jordan
Oliver Button is a sissy*Tomie dePaola
The tenth good thing about Barney...Judith Viorst
Tico and the golden wings*Leo Lionni
Trumpet of the swan*E. B. White
Two good friends*Judy Delton
The velveteen rabbit*Margery Williams
Wilford Gordon McDonald Partridge...Mem Fox
Agostinelli, Maria Enrica. On wings of love : the United Nations
Declaration of the rights of the child.
Anzaldua, Gloria. Friends from the other side. San Francisco:
Children's Book Press, 1993
Marjorie Barker. Magical Hands. Picture Book Studio 1989.
Brisson, Pat. The summer my father was ten. Honsdale, Pa. :
Caroline House/Boyds Mills Press, 1998.
Jeff Brumbeau. The Quiltmaker's Gift. New York: Scholastic, 2001.
Eve Bunting . Smoky Night. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1994.
Bunting, Eve. Night tree. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
c1991.
Bunting, Eve. Summer wheels. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Publishers, 1990.
Cohn, Janice. The Christmas menorahs : how a town fought hate.
Morton Grove, Ill. : A. Whitman, 1995.
Cooney, Barbara. Miss Rumphius. New York : Viking Press, [1982]
Davis, Aubrey. Bagels from Benny. ? : Kids Can Press, 2003
Demi. The empty pot. New York : H. Holt, 1990.
DiSalvo-Ryan. Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen. New York : Mulberry
Books, 1997.
Fox, Mem. Whoever you are . San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1997.
Gikow, Louise. For every child, a better world [New York] : Muppet
Press/Golden Book, 1993.
Gilley, Jeremy. Peace One Day. New York ; Putnam Juvenile, 2005.
Gregory, Nan. How smudge came. Red Deer, Alberta, Canada: Red Deer
College Press, 1995
Hartt-Snowbell, Sarah. Yesterday's Santa and the Chanukah miracle .
Toronto : Napoleon Pub., 2002.
Hesse, Karen. The cats in Krasinski Square. New York; Scholastic,
2004.
Houk, Randy. Hope. Fairfield, CT : The Benefactory, 1995.
Houk, Randy. Jasmine : a true story from the Northeast Animal
Shelter . Fairfield, CT : The Benefactory, 1993.
Knight, Margy Burns. Who belongs here? : an American story.
Gardiner, ME : Tilbury House, 1993.
Leedy, Loreen. The great trash bash. New York : Holiday House, 1991.
Helen Lester. Hooway for Wodney Wat
McBrier, Page. Beatrice's goat. New York, N.Y: Atheneum Books for
Young Readers, 2001.
McCain, Becky Ray. Nobody knew what to do : a story about
bullying. Morton Grove, Illinois : Albert Whitman & Company, 2001.
David McPhail, The Teddy Bear
Mollele, Tolowa M. Subira subira. New York: Clarion Books 2000.
Patricia Polacco. Mrs. Katz and Tush. New York : Dell, 1992.
Rael, Elsa. What zeesie saw on Delancey Street. New York : Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996
Rappaport, Doreen. Martin's big words : the life of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Rosenberg, Liz. The silence in the mountains. New York: Orchard
Books, 1999.
San Souci, Robert D. The talking eggs : a folktale from the American
South
Sanderson, Ruth. Papa Gatto : an Italian fairy tale . Boston :
Little, Brown, c1995.
Scholes, Katherine. Peace begins with you. San Francisco ; Boston
Sierra Club Books ; Little, Brown, 1990.
Seuss, Dr. The butter battle book. New York : Random House, 1984.
Seuss, Dr. The Lorax. New York, Random House [1971]
Spalding, Andrea. Me and Mr. Mah. Custer, WA, USA : Orca Book
Publishers, 1999.
Eileen Spinelli, Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch
Williams, Margery. The classic tale of the Velveteen Rabbit, or, How
toys become real Philadelphia, Pa. : Courage Books, 1984.
She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head by Kathryn Lasky
Michael Bird Boy by Tomie de Paola
Aani and the Tree Huggers by Jeannine Atkins
The Dragon and the Unicorn by Lynne Cherry
Martin, Rafe and Amiri, Fahimeh. The monkey bridge. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf
Heyer, Marilee. The girl, the fish, and the crown
Bruchac, Joseph and Jacob, Murv. The boy who lived with the bears :
and other Iroquois stories. New York: HarperCollins, [1995].
McNulty, Faith and Marstall, Bob. The lady and the spider. 1st ed.
New York, Harper & Row, [1986].
DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne. City green. New York: William Morrow and Co,
[1994].
DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne. City green. New York: William Morrow and Co,
[1994].
Keller, Holly. Island baby. New York: Mulberry Paperback, [1992].
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