A Celebration of You

PreS-Gr 3–This exuberant book is all about gratitude and celebration—not for big things like birthdays and holidays, but for the ordinary wonderfulness of life. Using lyrical, rhyming text, this book extolls the virtues of small things: a few minutes alone, the beauty of the outdoors, and gratitude for the usual things that fill each day. The carefully chosen text offers some terrific teachable vocabulary for young readers, with words like mundane and domain amid more simple rhymes like sniff and whiff. Highly graphic, vivid artwork shows a mom with two young children engaged in their daily activities, like having lunch and painting and playing outside. The book would be an excellent mentor text for social-emotional learning goals like gratitude and appreciation or as a Thanksgiving story with a similar theme.