Produced by the I-Lab at W-B-U-R Boston.

Welcome to Kind World.

I'm Yasmin Ammer.

And I'm Andrea Aswahay.

Books tend to be a popular gift during the holiday season,

and there are so many of them that talk about kindness.

So for today's bonus episode, we thought it would be fun to share

a few of these books with you, especially ones for kids. You know there's one in

particular that really caught my eye. I gave it at every baby shower I went to

this year. It's called Be Kind and it's by an author who lives in Western Massachusetts.

Her name is Naomi Schulman and she joins us today via Skype.

Hi, Naomi.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

So this is a really fun and colorful book

with 125 ideas for kids on things they can do every day to make the world a kinder place.

You know you have things like complimenting someone and you have things like

learning how to say hello in several different languages.

I want to know why you decided to write this book.

It kind of actually goes back to when my own children were in the age group

that this book is targeted toward.

They're older now, they're 15 and 18,

but around the time that they were 5 and 8, they started going to

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