LILLIES BIG HEART

Some children are easy to spot in a crowd. Lillie is easy to spot by her heart — it's huge.

LILLIE'S BIG HEART is a read-aloud story about a third-grader whose gift is noticing: the friend who needs a smile, the quiet classmate alone on the bench, the voice that sounds sad. When Lillie wonders what to do with a heart like that, her Lolli gives her the rule the whole story stands on: "You do not have to fix everything. Start by noticing. Then do one kind thing."

So she does — one small hello on a quiet bench. And when Lillie's own nervous moment comes, standing up to read in front of the whole class, kindness comes back around to her, the way it does. Brave does not mean never scared. Brave means "I will try."

The story closes the way Lolli closes the day — with the Big-Heart Promise your littles can say out loud: "I will notice. I will care. I will do one kind thing. And I will be kind to myself, too." — plus talk-about-the-story questions and a Big-Heart Page of their own in the back.

Made with love for Lillie, from Lolli — and for every grandmother who wants her grandbaby to know that a big heart is a gift, not a problem.

— Violet Monica

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