The Kindness Booth by Laura Murray is a a great book for young readers to understand how being kind has the power to change your day and brighten your mood. In this book we meet Mya who decided one gloomy day to gather her friends together and make a kindness booth to help and show kindness to others who need it. I like the idea in this book that being kind not only brightens your day but other's as well. The quote "Kindness tends to spread" is one that stuck with me and will hopefully inspire and stick with young readers as well.

As a 2nd grade teacher and a parent, I love books that have a message or have a lesson to be learned. This message that kindness can have a big impact on yourself and others even if the kindness that you show is something very simple. I will be picking up this book to read to my class to emphasize the character trait of kindness and caring. I will also be reading it to my two daughters and coming up with ways we can show kindness in our neighborhood, at home, and in our community.

I like that the back of the book had 7 ideas on how to show kindness as well as some discussion question on thinking about kindness. As a teacher and a parent, I find this very helpful in facilitating conversations with our young readers on the topic of kindness.

Andrea Boatta illustrated beautifully inclusive and engaging pictures to go along with the words in this book. I love books with diversity since it matches my class and I want each of my students to "see themselves" in the books that we read. That helps them relate more to the book.

Thank you to Netgalley and Author Laua K. Murray for allowing me to voluntarily read this book and give my honest review.