helping behavior in children

Teaches young children the importance of cooperation and reveals simple ways they can cooperate with their family, friends, and neighbors.

Contains thirty, real-life stories about children doing heroic things, arranged by themes, including saving the environment, standing up for themselves, helping others, overcoming challenges, and using talents and creativity.

Presents the letters of the alphabet, each with a color photograph and a suggestion for a way to be a helper, from "A--Answer the telephone nicely," to "Z--Zip up your zipper.".

Ruthie is sent to spend the day with her Aunt Juanita who is about to have a baby, and does a great job running errands for her aunt until she is distracted by a litter of new kittens at the store.

More than twenty young girls describe their works of charity, such as donating their hair for wigs for children with medical conditions and collecting videos for children's hospitals, and acts of courage, including surviving natural disasters and rescuing people and animals from danger.

Presents brief anecdotes in which children tell of random acts of kindness have they received or committed.