Name: Empathy Is Your Superpower: A Book About Understanding the Feelings of Others
Item: Empathy Is Your Superpower: A Book About Understanding the Feelings of Others
Rating: 5
Author: Nancy Retallick

Reviewed on Mar 20, 2021

Must read 🏆

Kids are never too young to learn empathy.

As a foster grandmother, I am always looking for children’s books that are educational. My granddaughter’s eyes light up when she is told she has superpowers.

I think using the word “superpower” is brilliant. I think all kids need to know their feelings and their friend’s feelings are important. Cori Bussolari wrote a convincing book about superpowers in Empathy Is Your Superpower: A Book About Understanding the Feelings of Others

The questions in the story creates an opportunity for a caregiver and child to have discussions about who their playmates are at school and how to handle a bully.

My granddaughter defended her friend when he was picked on by a bully because he couldn’t do a summersault. So, she did summersaults with him. They were all five years old.

Kids are never too young to learn empathy.

The strong points are the questions for the kids to answer and the suggestion for the kids to look in the mirror while making faces of different feelings they have. Making faces in the mirror also makes for some great giggle time.

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I am an author, an advocate, and former foster parent. I adopted my granddaughter, and we wrote a book together called Carly Shares Her Story. We used the pen names Eve Collins and Morgan Carew. The book is about her experience as a foster child. I worked with inmates for 20+ yrs and now I'm retired