Kindness Rocks - by Megan Murphy (Hardcover)

About the Book

"One message at just the right moment can change someone's entire day, outlook, or even life! From Megan Murphy, the founder of The Kindness Rocks Project, comes a picture book about the power of kindness. Follow a diverse group of children, strangers to each other but each dealing with their own very bad day. When they each find a painted rock with a positive message, they pick up their paint brushes to pass along their kind message, and so the chain of kindness heals one heart after another. With sweet illustrations by JiaJia Hamner, Kindness Rocks is perfect for library and classroom reading time to inspire everyone to plant a little extra kindness in the world."--

Book Synopsis

An inspiring picture book from the founder of The Kindness Rocks Project to celebrate the power of kind words and actions

One message at just the right moment can change someone's entire day, outlook, or even life!

From Megan Murphy, the founder of The Kindness Rocks Project, comes a picture book about the power of kindness. Follow a diverse group of children, strangers to each other but each dealing with their own very bad day. When they each find a painted rock with a positive message, they pick up their paint brushes to pass along their kind message, and so the chain of kindness heals one heart after another.

With sweet illustrations by JiaJia Hamner, Kindness Rocks is perfect for library and classroom reading time to inspire everyone to plant a little extra kindness in the world.

Review Quotes

"A young boy named Sam has a bad day, but it becomes brighter when he finds a rock at school with a message painted on it, 'It's okay!' Sam decides to paint another rock with the words 'Someone cares, ' and he leaves it at school near the playground. Then, Maeve has a bad day. Walking near the playground, she finds the rock Sam painted, which cheers her up. Maeve paints another rock and places it on the track field for someone else to discover. The story shows how this pattern continues with different children finding the stones and leaving their own until one child named Jasper presents an idea to his class. Jasper tells his class about the painted rocks and encourages everyone to make one to leave for someone. Together, the class paints rocks and creates a garden of 'kindness rocks' at school to put a smile on someone's face when needed. Murphy's story depicts how one small act of kindness can alter a person's day. The book encourages children to find ways to be kind, no matter how little, because one never knows how it might impact someone else. This story should be in every elementary school classroom and creates a fantastic project opportunity for educators to do with students."-- "Children's Literature" (3/17/2025 12:00:00 AM)

About the Author

Megan Murphy is the founder of The Kindness Rocks Project, a grassroots kindness initiative that spans 90 countries and includes millions of participants around the globe--earning it a unique place in art history as one of the world's largest participatory and interactive works of art ever created. She is also a Certified Professional Coach (CPC), Women's Empowerment Coach, Business Mentor, Kindness Activist, and Meditation Instructor, as well as the creator of the BE THE "I" IN KIND community-focused installation that has been installed around the world and cofounder of a global, multimedia mental health initiative called The Kindness Rocks & Smiles Community Project.