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  • Kind

    Kind

    Kind is a realistically illustrated hard back picture book and is just what we all need. It is guaranteed to bring a gentleness to the reader and the listener. The softly patterned front pages prepare us for the message to come. The first page explains that ‘Kind is more than a type, Kind is how to care.”

    The first colourful double page spread shows a variety of butterflies all colours, shapes, and sizes. The short rhyming texts suggests that even beautiful butterflies were once crawly things. Each butterfly is different showing many species. The next double page spread explains why we should be kind to those who weave, and a range of spiders is drawn. The double page spreads continue with scaly things, things with fins and things with shells.

    Many of the animals, insects, and birds shown here are all given their proper names. Then we are shown an illustration of the planets. The text reiterates that we need to be kind to where we live, it is the only home we have. We are also reminded to be kind to others and save a little kindness for ourselves.

    The message is delightful; simple and charming. Children will be able to choose favourite animals and explore the wonderful and precise illustrations. This is an end of the day book which will ensure a smile and a breath after reading.

  • Be Kind, Be Cool, Be You: Inspiring Words to Live Your Life By

    Be Kind, Be Cool, Be You: Inspiring Words to Live Your Life By

    Be Kind, Be Cool, Be You is a little BIG book packed to the very edges with wonderful, colourful affirmations to be used on a daily basis to cheer up, to inspire and comes with a huge dose of happy to be injected into what can sometimes be dull, drab, grey kind of days.

    Nikki Miles loves to spread kindness through her artwork; bold, bright, cheerful pieces that she hopes will offer a sense of positivity and colour to the day. One Hundred and fifty pieces of her work have been gathered together to be used as required or desired, which are short but succinct on words, but big, bright and beautiful in colour.

    Some offer a reminder such as ‘Be kind on line’, the basic but lovely ‘Love yourself’, often the hardest thing to do; ‘Say yes to things that make you happy’, which is a prefect reminder to accept joy into your life.  Perfect for gifting to yourself firstly as an essential component of waking up every morning, and then to friends who you believe could use a spark of joy in their day, Be Kind, Be Cool, Be You makes the perfect pick-me-up in your day.

    In this increasingly complex world in which we find ourselves as 2020 draws to a somewhat cataclysmic close, a bright minute in a day is an incredibly welcome, feel good moment in time so remember, ‘You are a ray of sunshine’, so be kind, be cool and most importantly, be you!

  • Go Be Kind: 28 1/2 Adventures Guaranteed to Make You Happier

    Go Be Kind: 28 1/2 Adventures Guaranteed to Make You Happier

    Leon Logothetis is all about spreading kindness as far as he can throughout the sad, sad world in which we live, which is a truly delightful, wonderful thing, as kindness is something there is never enough off in everyday life.

    The real magic of kindness, which is free by the way, is that the giver feels a great sense of happiness in their lives and the receiver, well, that can mean so many things to many people, from a simple thanks, I needed that smile, to just about anything.

    Go be Kind is presented in a style which is pure Logothetis, zany, slightly bonkers and of course very, very kind, as he has created 28 1/2 adventures that he guarantees will make you happier. After having read through the book, I would have to agree, because even if you only read the introduction, then the ‘rules’ and then only do one of the 28 1/2adventures, you have already made a difference in your life as well as someone else’s: Pretty powerful, is it not!

    Of course, the adventures span a month, more or less, as it is a well-known and researched fact, that it takes 21 days to make and 21 days to break a habit. In this case there are a few extra days built in to make sure the new habit of kindness is there to stay.

    As a ‘journal’ into happiness and kindness, Go Be Kind is one book where you are encouraged to write on the pages, colour them in or even tear them out, but it also encourages you to take a look into yourself, your happiness levels and do something about improving them. Call it a health check for happiness which costs nothing and can be seriously life changing, for the better.

    The other side of the adventure is reaching out to people who are lonely, isolated and yet surrounded by everything life has to offer, a condition that is on the increase, which in today’s world of electronic everything, is so very important.

    Kindness is something that needs to be practiced, preferably on a daily basis but anytime will do, until it becomes a habit that is catching: a warm, happy feeling that once rediscovered becomes an intimate and wonderful part of the person we are, as we continue on our journey through the years of our lives.

    How to describe kindness, you can’t, as it is an ethereal something that comes from within, but when practiced, no holds barred, it is pure magic. So, in the words of the master himself, Leon Logothetes, ‘I created this journal for anyone who has ever felt alone. I see you’ which is of course, everyone!

    Give like the sun and the whole world grows tall. – Atticus