What do you do when it feels like there’s too much sad in the world? You start with one small piece and make it better. But how? Bucket and their array of clever friends come up with an idea to begin healing the sad with beauty and compassion. Join Bucket’s challenge in this warm, funny, and empowering story about seeing your way through tough times and finding bits of joy along the way.

Bucket and Friends Save (Part of) the World with a Wall by author and educator Tom Rademacher gets at the heart of what’s on kids’ minds with kindness, humor, and insight. Each book in the Bucket and Friends series shows how activism big or small can enable young people to thrive and affect positive change for themselves and others. An included discussion guide offers further suggestions for ways kids can seek and provide help navigating their world.

For ages 9-12. From the new series Bucket and Friends.

Simultaneous release:

• - Bucket and Friends Argue and Then Save (Part of) the World
• - Bucket and Friends Save (Part of) the World with a Name

About the Author
Tom Rademacher has spent the last two decades devoted to students and education as an award-winning teacher and acquisitions editor. As an editor, he acquires, develops, and sometimes writes books with the goal of helping do the hard work of teaching well. He’s the author of 50 Strategies for Learning without Screens, It Won’t Be Easy, and Raising Ollie and has written for Huffington Post, Education Post, City Pages, and more. As a teacher, Tom was named Minnesota’s 2014 Teacher of the Year, spoke at national conferences and TEDx events, and was interviewed by the BBC, Associated Press, and Education Week. Before that, he mostly wrote bad poetry and talked about Kurt Cobain. He lives too close to the Mall of America in Minnesota with his wife, son, and absolute chonk of a dog.

About the Illustrator
Esther was Born in Barcelona , where she lives with her partner, a dog and a cat. She remembers as a child , she always filled her school books with drawings and doodles in class, at home she would continue drawing. She read comics and loved watching cartoons. She hasn't changed much since then, but now loves spending her free time with her family.