A fun and empowering interactive mental health guide for 8-12-year-olds on the power of kindness by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick
You can choose to make the world a better place. The power is within you!
Every one of us experiences the world differently – we have different worries and problems, and we all have unique hopes and dreams – but there’s one thing that can unite us and make the world a better place, and that’s KINDNESS!
Kindness is cool! No, really! Kindness can create positive change in all our lives. Whether it’s being a friend to someone who seems lonely, or simply smiling or giving somebody a thumbs up. When we support each other, we can be our best selves.
Be the Change: Be Kind is your handbook on how to use your own voice to empower yourself and others to spread kindness. Award-winning children’s author Marcus Sedgwick tells the story of kindness – where it comes from, what it feels like and perhaps most importantly why it matters – and asks YOU what would you do in different everyday scenarios. ARE YOU READY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
About the Author
Marcus Sedgwick is a million-selling, multiple-award-winning author of novels for children and adults. He is the winner of many prizes, most notably the 2014 Michael L. Printz Award for his novel Midwinterblood. Marcus has also received two Printz Honors, for Revolver in 2011 and The Ghosts of Heaven in 2016. Other notable award-winning books include Floodland, which won the Branford Boase Award, and My Swordhand is Singing, which won the Booktrust Teenage Prize. His books have been shortlisted for over 40 other awards, including the Carnegie Medal (seven times), the Edgar Allan Poe Award (twice) and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (four times). He has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times, in 2016, 2017 and 2018. He lives in France.
