generosity

Mama Panya has just enough money to buy ingredients for a few pancakes, so when her son Adika invites all their friends to join them, she is sure there will not be enough to go around.

Examines the life and career of Kevin Garnett, a power forward with the Boston Celtics basketball team, and discusses his charitable work.

Simple words and illustrations encourage children to do their part to make the world a better place, focusing on the concept of gratitude.

After watching a homeless man collect empty soft drink cans for the redemption money, a young boy decides to collect cans himself to earn money for a skateboard until he has a change of heart.

Alfonzo the goat is very happy wearing his new coat to stroll through the forest, but as he helps a series of friends in need, his coat becomes increasingly shabby.

Introduces the value of generosity and giving of oneself, presenting hypothetical situations intended to make young readers see the benefit of being generous.

"As a big storm approaches, two strangers arrive in the forest. All the animal families, safe in their homes, are worried, unsure of their motives. So they all turn them away when they ask for shelter, and the strangers are left to fend for themselves. But then the fox family is suddenly forced out into the storm, and they must ask these outsiders for help. Will they find it in their hearts to give it?"--OCLC.

Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.

Children learn how sharing and giving of themselves can bring goodness back to them.

Sisters Rosa and Blanca are so kind, thoughtful, and generous--and such good gardeners--that their Mama who lives between the two winds up with a great deal of corn, tomatoes, and red hot chiles.