You, Me and Empathy

Author: Jayneen Sanders https://e2epublishing.info/jay
Publisher: Educate2Empower Publishing
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Illustrator: Sofia Cardosa http://www.sofiacardoso.com/
Genre Designation: Fiction
Lexile: n/a

You, Me and Empathy

Summary:

This book is about empathy and relating with people. There are many scenarios that occur in this book and each one ends with the words "I understand". Some of the things that happen are feelings get hurt, mom gets sick, brother hurts his knee and a little boy gets bullied. In this book it states the problem and then shows how you can relate to others pain by using your own experiences. 

Target Audience:

This is recommended for ages 3-9.

Evaluation:

Empathy is a hard work to teach. This book does a great job at showing what empathy is through example. The word empathy does not appear in the book, just examples of what showing empathy looks like. The books has rhyming words which always help with the flow when reading. The illustrations show the problem and then what it would look like if you helped that person.

Reader Response Activity:

The book has the reader response activities built in. At the end of each example of empathy there are questions. At the end of the book their are discussion questions as well. In addition, there are activities that help to promote kindness and empathy. There are so many teachable points in this book you could break this book up into couple of units.