The You Kind of Kind
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Go Big!
Be Kind!
Be You!
Welcome to a magical adventure to discover kindness in the world—especially the kind inside you.
In this heartfelt and joyous story, little Nina embarks on a boisterous day of exploration, a colorful day where she sets out to find, well, Kind. With a backpack full of her favorite things, Nina guides readers through the neighborhood to identify kindness in the wild. Along the way she shines a light on the importance of loving yourself as well as others, revealing that sharing your unique form of kindness—the you kind of Kind—is the most wonderful gift of all.
Readers of any age will have a WUZZFASTIC time reading this linguistically luscious book out loud and will delight in its empowering message of kindness, community, love, and inclusion.
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What does kindness look like? This boisterous picture book by West (the stage name of activist, drag queen, and singer-songwriter Andrew Levitt, founder of the Nina West Foundation) aims to clarify. A light-skinned youth with bright red hair, large eyes, and an enormous grin directly addresses readers: "Nina here.... your lead adventurer" in a search for "kindness in the wild." After slipping into a multihued outfit that makes the narrator feel "remarkabus and wonder-filled," Nina encourages readers to observe the different ways people exhibit kindness, for example when they say hello ("the Salutation Exclamation") and make one another laugh ("the Perpetual Jokester"). And when a bullying situation arises, Nina transforms into a shimmering entity to diffuse the situation with a strident "Be Kind!" Shifting type sizes, made-up words, and Evans's bold and visually busy digital artwork, which portrays individuals with varying body types and skin tones, fittingly align with the book's laudable advice to "GO BIG!" and "BE YOU!" Ages 4–8.
