Wonder

I recommend reading this book aloud, with people dear to you.  it is something to be experienced, discussed, delighted in and cried over.  (My boys took to pelting me with pillows every time I got weepy, which was A LOT.)

I think this book should be required reading for all children at some point in their grade school years.  And maybe all adults too.  And basically anyone who wants to be inspired and moved by a story of growth, courage and humanity that I know will stay with me for a very long time.

“‘Shall we make a new rule of life … always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?'” this book asks.  “‘Because it’s not enough to be kind.  One should be kinder than needed … We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.'”

I was sad to say goodbye to this book at the last page, but it is a story to be celebrated, so we did: with a dozen cupcakes for us and one for August Pullman, my new hero.