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2. Swimmy (book) - Wikipedia

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   Karen Coats uses Swimmy as an example of how children's books can be as intellectually demanding as writings for adult audiences. She posits that a book like Swimmy is a simple hero story to children, but adults are able to see additional messages about society and relationships that go beyond the surface story. [4]

3. Mockingbird (Erskine novel) - Wikipedia

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   Common Sense Media found the book to be "sensitive, captivating, and, just put simply, a great read." [4] Simon Mason of The Guardian thought that the author's "evocation of 'Asperger thinking' is impressive and sensitively managed, but such narrowing of the focus reinforces the story's programmatic nature" and concluded, "In the end, like Caitlin's drawings, Mockingbird is a neat outline in ...

4. Empathy in literature - Wikipedia

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   Mar et al., in a study of 94 participants, identified that the primary mode of literature that increases empathy is fiction, as opposed to non-fiction. [5] Other studies verify these results and go on to specify that active fiction in particular engages with the reader and affects the reader’s empathy, at the very least in adults, rather than passive, entertainment fiction. [6]

5. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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   Children's books also benefit children's social and emotional development. Reading books help "personal development and self-understanding by presenting situations and characters with which our own can be compared". [180] Children's books often present topics that children can relate to, such as love, empathy, family affection, and friendship.

6. Sweet Pickles - Wikipedia

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   A Sweet Pickles book. Sweet Pickles is a series of 40 children's books by Ruth Lerner Perle, Jacquelyn Reinach, and Richard Hefter and published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, which have sold over 50 million copies. [1] The books are set in the fictional town of Sweet Pickles and are about anthropomorphic animals with different personalities and ...

7. Mary Gordon (child advocate) - Wikipedia

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   Gordon's 2005 Canadian non-fiction bestseller, Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Child, [1] concerns child development and empathy and outlines the philosophy behind the Roots of Empathy program. It was ranked as one of the Top 100 Books of the Year in the category of "Ideas" by The Globe and Mail in 2006.