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6 Best Children's Books For Teaching Empathy. In this article, I presented several books for your child, which in my opinion can significantly develop his thinking abilities. Children will like them. Read more

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The Hundred Dresses vs. Each Kindness

I read Each Kindness first and once I started reading The Hundred Dresses, I realized how similar these are in terms of their setting, characters and story line. To summarize in short Each Kindness, Maya is new in school and the first thing she does is smile at Chloe, but Chloe looks away. Everyday after that she ignored Maya or makes fun of her. It isn’t until Maya doesn't come back to school that Chloe realizes that she should have been nicer and maybe Maya would have stayed. This is extremely similar to The Hundred Dresses in the sense that Wanda is new to the school as well and Maddie and Peggy only talk to her to ask her about her dresses because they know shes going to say she has a hundred of them. Maddie is the one to realize how horrible they have been to her and realizes this only after Wanda has left the school because she was being made fun of. In both stories, one of the bullies realizes how mean they have been for no reason at all. Neither Wanda nor Maya did anything or said anything mean to anyone. They both went to school and tried to mind their own business. Maya and Wanda are also similar in the sense that they come from poor families. Maddie notices that the clothes that Maya wears seem to be second hand, although it is never confirmed if she is poor or not. Wanda, on the other hand, lives in a poor neighborhood in a small house with her brother and father. She does wear the same dress every day to school, but it always looks clean. This paves way for the girls to make fun of her because she always says she has a hundred dresses, but she only ever wears the one blue dress. The end lesson between both books is similar because both girls that are bullied leave the school. That is when the bullies realize that kindness would have gone a long way with the girls, especially since they were new and had no other friends. The Hundred Dresses is written with less illustrations as to be read by an older group of children. Each Kindness has pictures on every page so it is geared towards younger children with interests in looking at the pictures. Although both books are very similar, they are both great books to have in the classroom and to share with children on the topic of bullying and the importance of friendship.