I loved this book because it shows the impact of being unkind to others and how sometimes we don’t get to apologize due to life circumstances. Each day she waits for Maya to return so she can apologize, but Maya does not return because she has moved away.Įach Kindness should be a required read for all classrooms grades 2-5. All she can think about is how she treated Maya. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world.” When the teacher asks Chloe about any acts of recent kindness, she is not able to think of anything. She explains “This is what kindness does. She drops a small stone in the middle and shows the class the ripples that appear in the water. Albert brings a big bowl into the class filled with water.

On that particular day, the class gets an important lesson on kindness. Every day that passes by, Maya engages less and less with the girls until one day Maya is not in class anymore. The girls in the class make fun of Maya because of her ragged clothes and begin teasing her by calling her “Never New”. Each day on the playground, Maya asks to play with Chloe and her best friends but every day they don’t play with her and Maya plays by herself. I moved my chair, myself and my book a little farther away from her.” Each day Maya walked in the classroom, Chloe does not not smile back. When Maya sits down in a seat next to Chloe, “Maya turns to me and smiled. The other children noticed her ragged clothes and spring shoes that are not meant for the snow.

When Maya enters the room, her head is down and she speaks in a whisper. This story is told in the first person perspective by a young girl named Chloe and her friends who treat the new girl in class with unkindness.Įach Kindness begins with the story of a girl named Maya, a new girl that has joined the class mid year. Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson is a powerful book about kindness and regret.

Each kindness story