Shearry Malone – illustratör

Ms. Snowden and her class practice sending kind thoughts to thepeople they love, and they launch a class Kindness Project. There is only oneproblem: Henry can’t think of one kind thing he has done. Declaring thatkindness is stupid, he stomps to the classroom door on the verge of tears, buthis classmates save the day by reminding him of the kind things he has done foreach of them.

Ms. Snowden and her class practice sending kind thoughts to the people they love, and they launch a class Kindness Project. There is only one problem: Henry can’t think of one kind thing he has done. Declaring that kindness is stupid, he stomps to the classroom door on the verge of tears, but his classmates save the day by reminding him of the kind things he has done for each of them.

When a downcast Sergio gets home from a bad day at school, his wise mother listens sympathetically to his tale of woe and then suggests an experiment. Placing a bowl of marbles next to Grandfather’s old balance scale, she asks him to go back to the beginning of his day and remember each good and bad thing that happened. For each bad thing, he places a marble on the right-hand pan of the scale; for each good thing he places a marble on the left-hand pan. Sergio is amazed to discover that even on a day that felt awful, the good outweighed the bad.

When a downcast Sergio gets home from a bad day at school, his wise mother listens sympathetically to his tale of woe and then suggests an experiment. Placing a bowl of marbles next to Grandfather’s old balance scale, she asks him to go back to the beginning of his day and remember each good and bad thing that happened. For each bad thing, he places a marble on the right-hand pan of the scale; for each good thing he places a marble on the left-hand pan. Sergio is amazed to discover that even on a day that felt awful, the good outweighed the bad.

Mrs. Snowden tells the kids that T = True, H = Helpful, N =Necessary, and K = Kind. If what you’re about to say isn’t any of these things,she tells them, you shouldn’t say it. Later that day, when Tyaja is about tocriticize her friend Dhavi’s new haircut, she is stopped by four little elvessporting the letters T, H, N, and K, who reinforce Ms. Snowden’s lesson andremind Tyaja how friends should treat friends. Tyaja learns that she is the “I”in THiNK!

Mrs. Snowden tells the kids that T = True, H = Helpful, N = Necessary and K = Kind. If what you’re about to say isn’t any of these things, she tells them, you shouldn’t say it. Later that day, when Tyaja is about to criticise her friend Dhavi’s new haircut, she is stopped by four little elves sporting the letters T, H, N and K, who reinforce Ms. Snowden’s lesson and remind Tyaja how friends should treat friends. Tyaja learns that she is the “I” in THiNK!