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Mr. Good feels out of place in Badland as people react to his good deeds with rudeness and bad luck follows him everywhere.

Red Hen finds a recipe for a Simply Splendid Cake and asks her friends the cat, the rat, and the frog to help with the preparations. But it seems as though her friends want no part in the cake until it's ready to eat. Will they decide to pitch in, or let Red Hen do all of the hard work?

When Little Green Hen needs help attending her orchard, Peacock, Fox, and Cat refuse to help and find themselves in trouble during a flood.

When eight-year-old Patsy and her younger brother befriend their old neighbor and her many animals, the children help the mysterious lady change her life.

Every person, no matter how small, can do something to change the world for us all! In her picture book debut, Taimani Emerald, has created a gentle introduction for young readers on what being an ally looks like. Whether it's sharing, saving, joining, or creating―there are many ways to pledge support to those in need. With soft watercolor illustrations that fans will have seen on her wildly popular posters, Taimani Emerald expands that world...

Little messy Marcy Su cleans the house to help her mother, but with every mess she picks up she somehow makes another. Includes Chinese language lesson.

In this wordless picture book, a young girl takes a train and makes a stop at a most unusual place where she has an important task to perform.

Grover and Avigail join their friends Brosh and Mahboub to clean up a playground in Israel as a mitzvah, and although grouchy Moishe refuses to participate, he finds his own way to make the world a better place.

The debut picture book that celebrates good deeds during the month of Ramadan finds Hannah learning the importance of the holiday by helping her friends and neighbors as well as by showing kindness and generosity, acts that can make the world a better place.

"In a story inspired by her own family's desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young readers on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and strangers all help one another to build a better world for themselves and their community"--