Kindness for Koalas

Kindness of Koalas 

by Zanna Davidson

Illustrated by Ged Adamson 

 

Review: 

As always from Usborne this is a wonderful book for younger learners. 

Full of beautiful and bright illustrations to animate the message, Kindness for Koalas  helps our little ones understand some big emotions. 

I particularly like how it highlights the physical ways emotions can affect us - this helps so much when young children are trying to identify how they are feeling. 

The book follows Mala the Koala on her journey to make herself feel better by doing kind things. But what is kindness and what does it mean to you?

Opening up a range of possibilities for classroom and home activities around being kind, what we could do to be kind and exploring our emotions. 

I would highly recommend this book! 

Summary:

When Mala the Koala stomps into the forest, feeling very crummy, a little mouse suggests Mala will soon feel better if she starts to be kind. But how? wonders Mala. Soon she's sharing her lunch with some emu chicks, helping a baby bat and comforting her friend, Wombat - discovering, on her way, that kindness really is what makes the world go round. This easy-to-read rhyming story, with gentle humour and gorgeous artwork, is a perfect introduction to kindness.

 

Information about the Book

Title: Kindness for Koalas

Series: Usborne Good Behaviour Guides
Author: Zanna Davidson

Illustrator: Ged Adamson
Publisher: Usborne Books
Release Date: 5th January 2023
Genre: Picture Book

 

 

 

Author Information

Zanna writes fiction and non-fiction for Usborne. Her favourite things to write about are small monsters and talking animals. She used to live in London but now lives in a cottage on the edge of some woods. She is only sorry there are no bears or witches in them.

 

Twitter: http://twitter.com/zannadavidson

Instagram: http://instagram.com/zannadavidson

 

 

Illustrator Information

Ged Adamson is a writer and illustrator. His breakthrough book Douglas, You Need Glasses! was published in May 2016 by Schwartz and Wade (Random House). Since then, he’s worked with many publishers as both author and illustrator. Self-penned titles include Shark Dog and Ava and the Rainbow (Who Stayed) for Harper Collins, A Fox Found a Box – again with Schwartz and Wade – and Bird Hugs for Two Lions. He is the illustrator of I Have To Start At School Today by Simon Philip (Simon & Schuster) and This is Not a Unicorn by Barry Timms (Nosy Crow). 2021 saw the publication of Scribbly (HarperCollins) and in 2022, his new book The Elephant Detectives will be published by Nosy Crow.

 

Twitter: http://twitter.com/ged_adamson

Instagram: http://instagram.com/gedadamson

 

We were lucky enough to receive a copy of this book as part of the blog tour.