Featured Titles: Have You Filled a Bucket Today? & They Lead
Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud
Published by Cardinal Rule Press
Rights sold
English (India)
Korean
Turkish
Japanese
Chinese (Simplified)
Romanian
Russian
Thai
Age Range: 4 - 9
Over 3 million copies sold
Compliant for dyslexic readers
Rated 4.8 out of 8,500+ reviews on Amazon
While using a simple metaphor of a bucket and a dipper, author Carol McCloud illustrates that when we choose to be kind, we not only fill the buckets of those around us, but also fill our OWN bucket! Conversely, when we choose to say or do mean things, we are dipping into buckets.
All day long, we are either filling up or dipping into each other's buckets by what we say and what we do. When you're a bucket filler, you make the world a better place to be!
This 32-page picture book is perfect for children, parents, grandparents, teachers and people that want to teach empathy, nurture kindness and create a positive environment in their home, classroom, workplace and community. It has been adopted as a character development strategy in schools.
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Children are not the only ones that need to learn how to be truly happy. It's all in the bucket, that invisible bucket that follows you everywhere... teaches young readers valuable lessons about giving, sharing, and caring. This guide to daily happiness, though, is not just for kids. We all need reminders of the benefits of positive thinking and positive behavior. It's an important lesson to teach and remind us all... that showing kindness and appreciation of others goes a long way to making this world a happier place for everyone, including ourselves. A classic tale, beautifully told and beautifully shared. — Emily-Jane Hills Orford, Readers' Favorite Book Reviews
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To every parent everywhere: please read this book
This simple message is absolutely true and life-changing. Whom do we love more than anything in this world? Our kids. Whom can we deeply hurt at times? Our kids. So many kids could grow into happier, healthier adults, and so very many parents could have healthy relationships with their children through adulthood if they would read and practice the simple message in this book. — Amazon review
Carol McCloud, the “Bucket Lady”, is the author of ten books, which began with the ever-popular Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids in 2006. By trade, Carol is a speaker, author, and certified emotional intelligence trainer. Her books have sold more than three million copies and have been translated into many different languages and in different formats. A champion for bucket filling, Carol works with a powerful presenter team who strive to help people of all ages and occupations lead happier lives by growing in kindness, self-control, resilience, and forgiveness.
David Messing is a lifelong artist, illustrator, cartoonist, sculptor, writer and instructor. For thirty years, Dave, along with his wife, Sandy, and in more recent years, their boys Scott, Kevin and Adam, have taught in their family-owned art school. Although Dave spent many years designing and building props, sets, and miniatures for film and print commercials along with almost every auto manufacturer; his current passion is cartooning and book illustration.
They Lead by June Smalls
Published by Familius
World rights available
Age Range: 4 -6
Nominated for the Children's Book Council Best Books in STEM
They are the leaders. The creators of the pack. She digs the den, where their young will grow. He patrols the territory and brings her food while she cares for the helpless pups. As seasons pass, and new litters arrive, the pack grows and all work together to raise the young.
A wolf's piercing howl can carry up to 10 miles, raising goosebumps on even the most intrepid camper's skin. But the gray wolf is far from a simple predator. An incredible combination of teamwork and instinct has helped wolf packs survive, despite being endangered in most of North America.
With a mother wolf and father wolf leading the pack–their family–together, the cubs grow and learn the skills they need to start their own pack someday. With stunning, lifelike illustrations and facts on each page for grownups or older children who want a deeper dive, this beautiful picture book is a monument to these majestic packs
June Smalls has been making up stories since she only had pets and stuffed animals to share them with. With her first poem published in first grade June got the writing bug and never quit.
June is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and a lover of literature. She resides in Northern Virginia with her hubby, The Kid, and an ever-growing assortment of animals.
When not writing June is researching, visiting zoos or aquariums, reading, or trying to convince her hubby they have room for just one more pet.
Yumi Shimokawara is an illustrator, picture book writer, and animal lover living in Japan. Yumi Shimokawara was born in Tokyo. She took an illustration correspondence course with Kodansha Famous Schools in 2001 and later learned wildlife drawing at a KFS school. In 2013, she won the school’s 7th KFS Picture Book Grand Prix.
She made her debut into writing and illustrating with Hoshi o sagashi ni (Star Hunting). She has since published Potsu potsu potsu daijobu? (Plip-plop Plip-plop, Are You All Right?) and Osuwari dozo (Have a Seat). She loves animals and currently lives with a white java sparrow in Chiba, Japan.
They Lead is part of a series of books dedicated to endangered animals with She Leads and He Leads preceding it.
Listen to this interview where the author shares how we do so many things naturally and can do more of them that mimic the animal world which would be really good for us.
