On the 20th of February at school Sebastion M had come to school with a fractured shoulder and it was hard for him to do certain actions. So throughout the day, I would help him, I would help put on his jacket, get his lunch, and open the doors for him on the way outside. I would consider this an act of kindness because I decided to help him no one asked me I self-volunteered to do it.

The book “Morris Micklewhite And The Tangerine Dress” is a very meaningful story written by Christine Baldachino and illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant that shares a strong message. It starts off with this boy named Morris who liked to do girl things and do girl activities and he got made fun of for expressing how he feels and what he likes to do. Morris loves to wear his tangerine dress to school  His mom would paint his nails, he would wear his favourite tangerine dress all the time. One day Morris wanted to join the other kids on their spaceship but they wouldn’t let him, so instead of whining he made his own spaceship and all the other kids decided tp join him on his space. Overall this story is written for all messages spreading awareness that being different is okay and you shouldn’t feel ashamed for being different.

The book “Morris Micklewhite And The Tangerine Dress” is a very meaningful story written by Christine Baldacchino and illustrated Isabelle Malerfont. The story starts off with a boy named Morris who loves to wear his tangerine dress to school and singing out at circle time. He always gets made fun of by his peers for being different and doing girl stuff like his mom paints his nails and he wears dresses to school. Morris tries to block out means and heartful comments from his peers and he pretends to ignore but he can hear them and it hearts his feeling I think it is very unfair to him to get bullied for being himself and expressing his feeling and showing to the world who he really is. I think that the main message overall for him is to keep expressing his feelings and be confident and show how you don’t care what others think and don’t let them bring you to own just because of a dumb comment. And for his peers to stop making fun of him and ut yourself in his shoes and how you would feel. All, in conclusion, this is a very great meaningful story that can be read to all ages because it shares an important message of not being ashamed of yourself.

On February 21st a rainy not so good looking day I saw that my neighbour’s grass in his back yard was really long, and I thought he might have trouble mowing it since he was an older man. So I walked over t his house and asked politely if I can mow his lawn for him and he gratefully thanked me and said it was very thoughtful of me.

On Feb 8 I was walking down Robson street downtown Vancouver when I walked past a homeless man and his two kids. I could see immediately that they were struggling and needed money for food and shelter and the father wasn’t capable of supporting his family. I had a 10$ bill in my pocket and I thought he could do more with that 10$ then I can and he needed it more. I felt very happy that I did this and also felt sad for the person because I would hate to be living on the streets of a cold city with two kids and not enough money to support his family. Every day since then I still think about that family and what they are doing and what they spent that 10$ on. 10$ may not be a lot of money but to them, they can use it for food, and it is the thought that matters. The homeless man and his two kids thanked me said we will spend this money wisely and i said have a great day and continued with my day,

The book “One” is a very meaningful story written and illustrated by Kathryn Otoshi. This story starts off with the colour blue being made fun of for not being as hot as him, and for the longest time blue put up with those rude ignorant comments from red. Blue felt jealous he wished he could be different but everyone around him told him otherwise, he was beginning to feel really sad and embarrassed about his colour. But one day he was getting made fun of by red when all the other colours around him started standing up for him and not putting up with reds rude comments and blue felt better about himself, he had friends and he was different. Overall this story is written for ages 1- 10 because it shares a message which shows the kids its okay to be different and how you shouldn’t make fun of people.

“Ivan: the remarkable true story of the shopping mall gorilla” is a truly inspiring story righten by Katherine Applegate and illustrated G. Brian Karas. The book starts off with Ivan and another baby female gorilla were captured by poachers and shipped to a family. From there he learned how to do human things that Gorillas would never have to learn, like ride a motorcycle and go to baseball games and other human activities. But soon he was shipped off to a mall and but captivated in a little box with Burma but shortly after Burma was dramatized and sadly passed away. After 27 years in the mall, people started protesting to free Ivan and send him to natural safer animals with other gorillas. So the mall decided to ship Ivan to the Atlantic Zoo and that’s when he lived his last years with other gorillas in a natural safe environs until he was 50 years of age. The theme of this book is to let people know that everyone has feeling and even animals deserve to live a peaceful and safe life. I think that book has an overall great message and a really meaningful said story describing to metal abuse of animals and why they deserve better. This story is written for all ages because it is important to understand the struggles of animals kept captive.

“What Can You Do with A Idea?” is a beautiful story about a boy and his dream written by Kobi Yamada and illustrated by Mae Besom. This story starts off with a boy wondering what to do with his dream, he doesn’t, not know what to do with it should he share it, create or just keep it to himself. So the young boy decides to keep it to himself and not share it. But soon the idea starts to get hungry and want to do stuff, so the young boy tries to run away from it, and completely ignore it and act like it never existed. But soon he couldn’t just keep running from it so he started to share it, everyone thought it was dumb and to crazy and to just forget about it. The boy decided to dream on his own and keep his ideas and thoughts I his head. So he built a house with no roof so he can look up at the sky which is the safest place to dream, but then he dreams soared up into the sky and seemed as if it had become alive. The main message behind this book is to not be ashamed of your ideas and embrace them, and don’t care what others think just care about what you think about your idea, and to express your ideas with confidence and stand proud of your ideas. I would say that this book is written for ages 6-12 because that’s when you can really understand the true message behind this book, and use it for the future. Overall this is a really great book that shares an overall great message that I really enjoyed listening to.

“Chop Sticks” is a very funny, humorous story that is written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, and illustrated by Scott Magoon. The story started off with two chopsticks who loved and did everything together. The two chopsticks went on walks together, ate together, go on adventures together, well you get the point they did everything together, it was like they were stuck together. Until one very unfortunate day, one of the chopsticks snapped will trying to perform a fancy trick and accidentally snapped. The chopstick was immediately sent to the hospital, and with the help of some great doctors, they were able to keep him alive. The other chopstick was so worried he would stand by him for days making sure he was okay. Until one day the injured chopstick said to go on an adventure and tell me your story when you get back. So he did and had so much fun and by the time he got back the other chopstick was fully healed up and they celebrated and had a fun night. The overall message of this story is to go adventure on your own and have fun, this book was very funny and had lots of jokes, and I really enjoyed listening to this amazing book. I would say that this book is written for ages 7-12 because if you are younger you will not understand the humour and if you are older you will think that the humour is kind of childish.

The “spoon” is a very interesting story written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Scott Magoon. The story/book is about a Spoon who wished he was other appliances like fork and knives. The story starts off as the spoon explaining all of his different family members and how they’re all different in some way. One night the spoons grandma was telling him a bedtime story about how once when she was young she ran off with a dish. The next day Spoon was thinking about all the good things about being a knife or a fork and wished that he could dig into a cake or cut stuff. But when Spoon wasn’t listening to his friends say I wish I was Spoon has so nice and everyone takes me so serious, he’s so easy going.  That same evening the Spoons mother was explaining how lucky you are to be a spoon and how I don’t think you understand how grateful you should be about being a spoon, then the Spoon realized all the good things about being a spoon you get to dive into a bowl of ice cream or cereal and you also get to relax in a nice warm cup of tea. I think that this book is written for ages 5 to 15 because it shares a really important message. The message is how grateful you should be about how lucky you are to be able to go to school have a roof over your head because there are kids all around the world who would die to be in your situation.