**2015 New York Book Festival Honorable Mention****2015 Southern California Book Festival Honorable Mention****2016 Great Southeast Book Festival Honorable Mention****2016 New England Book Festival Honorable Mention**"The Full-Fillment" series of children's books, beginning with The Little Bucket, are meant to help children have a sense of their own inner wonder and connect to their own imagination. "WOW! The universe exists in a bucket?!" As a beginning place for self-awareness, children learn to set healthy boundaries, identify their feelings (mad, sad, glad, afraid) and learn to safely express all of their feelings appropriately, and even be a good listener in the process. We also learn in the Full-Fillment series that there is a pernicious "hole" in our bucket that seeks to get other children and other people to fill us up. The painful whines and complains about what others are or aren't doing. When the hole gets a hold of us we look into other buckets, complain about them, and even try to get them to fill us up. We do this instead of looking into our own bucket. When we can make the distinction between what is happening on the inside of us with what is happening on the outside of us (over which we have no control) we can find our happiness. Teaching children to do this, at a young age, will help them practice it as they grow up. This is the "WHAT" that The Little Bucket shows children: how to locate themselves within. With practice, we can learn to identify our own "hole" and have a sudden realization that we also have the "universe" (our creativity, imagination and curiosity) at our disposal. Many adults function out of the "hole" because they have forgotten the "universe" and as a result they live from the outside in, not the inside out. As children practice living from the inside out, together with other children, they feel happier and gain self-confidence and self-control. What better goal could we have to help children develop this inner competency, to take them through the rest of their lives. The practice of this in a classroom, for instance, will help students feel mutually affirmed and supported. A robust TEACHERS GUIDE is also available to help the teacher use this book as a model and practice in the classroom.

This bridge book in the bestselling Bucket Fillers line takes the concept of bucket filling one step further by adding the idea that we also have an invisible lid. We "use our lid" to protect and keep the happiness inside our bucket. Offering charming illustrations with personified buckets, dippers, and lids, readers learn what gives happiness, what takes it away, and what protects it. This concrete concept helps children of all ages grow in understanding, kindness, self-control, resilience, empathy, and forgiveness. A valuable teaching tool for home, school, and life, this is a stand-alone or companion book to the other award-winning books by Bucket Fillers.

"Here's a delightful little book to warm the hearts of young children and teach them how to experience the joy of giving and receiving. Just think of all the little buckets this book will fill with love and encouragement." - Dr. Kevin Leman, author of Have a New Kid by Friday While using a simple metaphor of a bucket for happiness, authors Carol McCloud and Katherine Martin, M.A. show young children how our positive behavior and interactions increase happiness. This sweet book shows how we can fill each other's buckets by being kind, loving, and caring. It also teaches the importance of filling other people's buckets as well as our own. Fill a Bucket is perfect for children, parents, grandparents, teachers and people who want to teach empathy, nurture kindness, and create a positive environment in their home, classroom, and community. Fill a Bucket is a successful followup to the bestselling book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? (3 million copies sold worldwide!) Fill a Bucket introduces the bucket filling concept in simple ways that makes it easy to understand for younger children. &​ Publications by Bucket Fillers: ·Have You Filled a Bucket Today? ·Fill a Bucket ·Growing Up with a Bucket Full of Happiness ·My Bucketfilling Journal ·Will You Fill My Bucket? ·Bucket Filling from A to Z ·Bucket Filling from A to Z Poster Set ·My Very Own Bucket Filling from A to Z Coloring Book ·BABY'S BUCKET Book ·Buckets, Dippers, and Lids

An illustrated adaptation of the long-running bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? (more than 400,000 copies sold) for kids — told through the story of a boy who learns a valuable “bucket filling” metaphor and watches it come to life as the day unfolds. Every moment matters. Each of us has an invisible bucket. When our bucket is full, we feel great. When it’s empty, we feel awful. Yet most children (and many adults) don’t realize the importance of having a full bucket throughout the day. In How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids, Felix begins to see how every interaction in a day either fills or empties his bucket. Felix then realizes that everything he says or does to other people fills or empties their buckets as well. Follow along with Felix as he learns how easy it can be to fill the buckets of his classmates, teachers and family members. Before the day is over, you’ll see how Felix learns to be a great bucket filler, and in the process, discovers that filling someone else’s bucket also fills his own.

Eli the dog has been with Astrid since her parents brought her home from the hospital as a baby. Now Astrid is getting older, and so is Eli. Before he slows down too much, Astrid wants to make fun memories with him. So she makes a bucket list for Eli, which includes experiences such as eating with him in a restaurant, and taking him down a slide at the playground. But in the end, what is most important to Eli is the time he spends with Astrid, whom he loves dearly. In Stay, sisters Kate and M. Sarah Klise have created a story that reminds readers of all ages that time with our loved ones is the most precious gift of all.

Grandmother tells the story of carrying buckets of food as a child to an elderly neighbor, who rewards her with the gift of a crystal figure with a guardian angel attached.

A simple question, Will You Fill My Bucket?, is fervently asked by children from twelve different countries. Sweet rhyming prose and vividly captivating illustrations delight the senses and express the deep joy and love we hope for all children. Will You Fill My Bucket? and the responses given will touch the heartstrings of people young and old around the world. Bucket filling, the essence of being loved and loving others, occurs in those little moments in a day when you stop and just listen, cuddle, play, or spend time with a child

New brain research shows that a parent is a baby's most important and necessary 'bucket filler'. Every time a parent or other caregiver smiles, kisses, soothes, cares for and plays with a baby, they are fulfilling essential human needs. They are creating brain pathways and building a solid foundation for future learning, health and happiness. In addition to the known benefits of time spent bonding and reading to baby, this book uses brilliant colours and joyous faces to entertain baby and explain to adults their baby's needs for security, love, belonging and fun.

This heartwarming book encourages positive behavior by using the concept of an invisible bucket to show children how easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation and love by "filling buckets." Updated and revised, this 10th anniversary edition will help readers better understand that "bucket dipping" is a negative behavior, not a permanent label. It also explains that it's possible to fill or dip into our own buckets.