The illustrator of this picture book is JiaJia Hammer. The illustrations are crisp, colorful, and inviting.

This is a sweet and timely children's picture book focusing on how kindness can make a hard day better. This highlights representation for multiple kids while encouraging them to be the change they needed for someone else. This is truly what we need to be teaching children in these troubled times.

Thank you to Megan Murphy, Familius, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this ebook. All opinions and viewpoints expressed in this review are my own.

Kindness Rocks was a sweet story about paying it forward. It is a story about how small acts of kindness can brighten someone's day. It also shows how a good idea can inspire others creativity as well. It was a cute story with a beautiful message. I loved the illustrations and the beautiful messages on the rocks. I found the book to be inspiring and as a mom, I also wanted to share this beautiful story with my little ones.
If you want a beautiful picture book full of kindness and hope, this is a sweet story.

We enjoyed this book so much. I think the Kindness Rocks Project is a brilliant idea. The book shows us the power that both kind words and kind actions can have on people. Sometimes a special message at the perfect time is exactly what someone needs to make their day better. In this story we get to follow a diverse group of children on their day. Each child is going through a bad day, until they find a special, uplifting message on a painted rock. Then they decide to paint their own rocks and pass the positivity along. This kindness goes a long way to making everyone feel better.
I love this book so much. I shared it with my little ones and they loved it, they wanted to make their own rocks too. An encouraging book that promotes understanding, kindness and sharing positivity. Your family will love this book. Your family can also make your own Kindness Rocks to share.
Great for early childhood classroom and elementary school. Great for anyone!

This book is so colourful and hearth warming!
The kind message that you can randomly give is worth nothing to you and everything for the one receiving it! Kindness rocks is a chain of goodness.

This was such a sweet book to introduce the Kindness Rocks Project! I love the idea and I think it will be a great project to have in all elementary schools and beyond! I especially loved all the diverse characters. Even simply seeing different kids represented in a simple book like this will definitely spread joy!

A perfectly decent book, that portrays people being perfectly decent to others, without ever meeting them. It's a cycle of child having a bad day, finding a decorated pebble or stone that has an affirmative message on, and then making their own for the next child having a bad day to find, which duly leads to them decorating theirs in turn and paying it forward, etc etc. That said, there is just enough variety in the situations they're all left and found, and the messages, and the reason for the bad day, and the decoration – in actual fact, it looks like a whole bunch of these stones are out there, and the book insists we try and join in with pebbles of our own. As the closing instructions demand we make sure that the art is not going to leach into the environment or anything, this can only be a firm positive. Much like the whole achievement here – a strong four stars.

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Wonderful book that shows examples of how finding a rock can completely change your day. I have two rocks at home that make me smile, so I'm proof The Kindness Rocks Project works,

I also loved the note not to add stickers and googly eyes to your rocks, nature deserve kindness too.

Kindness Rocks provides inspiration for spreading kindness in your community. Written by Megan Murphy, the founder of the Kindness Rocks Project Ⓡ, this book imparts a practical way to share uplifting messages and promote empathy and connection. In the story, a series of children having bad days find rocks with positive messages that lift their spirits. To pay the kindness forward, they each create a new rock to leave for someone else to find. Readers can follow the storyline from one character to the next as kindness spreads. The repetitive phrasing in the book, and depiction of authentic experiences will appeal to young readers. JiaJia Hamner’s colourful illustrations and representation of diverse children allows readers to relate to the characters and situations shown in the book. Elementary educators will appreciate the valuable message in the book that provides a starting point to a meaningful school project. Kindness Rocks would make an excellent addition to a school library collection. Thank you to Familius LLC for providing this book via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

I think leaving painted rocks in places is a fantastic idea. It shows you don't have to do a lot to pay it forward with kindness and potentially make someone's day better. Overall great message and the best part is at the end when they give tips on how to paint your own rocks. I can't wait to try it with my child!

"Kindness Rocks" illustrates the idea of "paying it forward" through the use of affirmations, positive self-talk, and problem-solving language. Throughout the story, there are several examples of a child who is having a hard day for a variety of reasons. Each child stumbles upon a painted rock with a message of positivity and kindness that relates to the hard day that they are having. For example, one child sits alone at a table in the crowded cafeteria and later finds a painted rock which reads: "Someone cares". She is later inspired to paint her own rock, which says: "The best ships are friendships" and drops it off in a random spot for another person to stumble upon when they need it most. Later, the child who finds this rock "pays it forward" by leaving their own painted rock for another child to find. In addition to teaching the message of kindness, positivity, and problem-solving, this book also does an excellent job of normalizing the fact that everyone goes through tough situations! This book would be excellent for use in a classroom, counseling office, therapy office, or just on your child's bookshelf at home! As a child/adolescent therapist, I can see a lot of benefit to using this book to help kids learn to cope with the presence of difficult situations and managing difficult emotions, as well as utilizing coping strategies such as affirmations and positive self talk. Additionally, social skills and skills useful in friendships are also illustrated throughout the book. Overall, this book provides a variety of tools that can be applied in multiple ways! Thank you to NetGalley for providing an early digital ARC in exchange for my honest review of this children's book!

My kids and I are big supporters of the Kindness Rocks Project and have painted and distributed our fair share of painted kindness in our community. This book is absolutely beautiful, the message is clear and shows the impact of just a small act of kindness can do. I loved the illustrations and even teared up a few times. My kids loved that the story came full circle. I think that this is a message, especially in the world today that we need. And yes my kids asked to hunt for more rocks to paint after school today.

Someone who is having a bad day finds a rock with a hopeful message that brightens their day. They spread kindness by painting a rock of their own with a kind/ hopeful message for someone else to find.

This book is a simple way of showing how kindness and hope can be spread through community and simple acts. This is a great storytime for teachers/librarians/parents to use during kindness week and students could easily paint their own rocks as a craft and tie-in to the story. The back of the book includes a link to The Kindness Rocks Project where readers can find out more information about the organization and order their own rock & paint kit.

Spreading Kindness

This book gave great examples of different things can go wrong in someone’s day and how a little encouragement can turn their day around. There was a great breakdown of how to start your own kindness project.

The illustrations featured common moments in someone’s day. The rocks were colorful and attention getting.

This would be a great book as a classroom/group lesson about how to handle a rough day and treating others.

I received a copy of this book from Megan Murphy. I am voluntarily leaving a review. All opinions are my own.

Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for the arc. I liked that this a book explained how powerful words can be while leaving them written on rocks for others to find when they’re having a bad day. I found the book too repetitive and that it could’ve been explained better. My 5 year old did not really enjoy it.

Can a bad day, that is very gray, get any better.. Yes it can with a kindness rock. One child has a gray day, finds a rock with a saying.and the day is turned around. That child makes a rock to leave and so on and so on. What a great book to go with a great idea/concept. I’ve done rocks with my first graders and this we be a great book to read beforehand!

A charming book highlighting the importance of kindness and passing it on. The concept of painting rocks to uplift others is simple yet powerful, reminding us that small acts of kindness can make a significant difference in someone's day.

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This book screams school library and activity starter. My son is one and half and did seem interested in the books bright illustrations. I really enjoyed the message and concept. It’s something I can see us doing as an activity and really enjoying it when he’s old enough to understand. Where the book fell flat for me was the ending. I really would have preferred one more page that just summarized the idea of kindness rocks. The ending as is feel very abrupt compared to the established idea of kindness brightening the kiddos day.

Sweet book about the importance of 1) being kind and 2) passing it on. Love the simple idea of painting rocks and leaving them in places to brighten others’ days. You never k know what someone else is facing and the power of a small act of kindness.

Kindness Rocks, written by Megan Murphy, is a sweet and inspirational book written by the founder of The Kindness Rocks project. This beautifully written and illustrated children’s book tells the story of different children, who for one reason or another, are not having a good day. But instead of getting upset or angry, or being unkind to someone else, they chose to use this as an opportunity to be kind to others by making kindness rocks. I really appreciate that this book reminds children that they can do a little something to help make a difference in someone’s day, to be kind to another person, and sometimes this is all we need to do to make ourselves feel better.
Thank you to NetGalley, and to the author and publisher of this book for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I love this book and it’s such a lovely idea too! I love the instructions at the end and it would definitely be something I would do with my class to tie into the book!