Scribble Stones

This is a fun story of a stone which gave me the desire to paint on stones and I am not a child anymore (unfortunately). I love the idea. Illustration is great and it flows with the words. The characters are expressive and it reminds you of what one can do just with a few lines: there is a great universe in this book and children will get involved asap. A great idea for rainy days and a good pretext for sunny days to go looking for stones outside!

One of my all time favorite books to read to young kids. I volunteer with elementary kids a lot and love to incorporate this book and its lessons into our activities. I pair it with teaching about kindness and sharing and then they love painting the rocks and then we have them share them to each other.

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I read this book too my 4h cloverbuds group and then we painted our own scribble stones and hid them for kids to find on a hike at the following meeting. It's was a big hit with kids and parents

I like it a lot! I also like art and the story a lot! You will like it too. From, Ronin (7yo)

Cute story, fun read for my littles. Had a hard time with the formatting on my device but that's my only issue (couldn't zoom/rotate pages)

My grandson loves this book. He has more and he asked to have the covers framed for his room. He is happy with them.

There are two authors whi have written delightful stories about stones and similar objects. Many are written as poems. All have beautiful colored pictures. Each book has a gentle morale and good advice. Great fir kids up to about 12, but writing is a bit tio easy for the older kids, yet colorful and clever!

Sono una grande fan dei libri di Diana Alber e questo come tutti gli altri dalla seria è eccezionale sia come storia che come concetto artistico. Bellissimo davvero!

I am a kindergarten teacher and I stumbled across this author in the past year. She has published a few books now that all have wonderful messages about kindness, inclusivity, co-operation, being unique and growth mindset. This book is absolutely awesome, as it also has an option to purchase a created activity booklet. It compliments my social/emotional program in my classroom perfectly. The story is a great introduction to children about being the best you can be and to find your own talents and work at them. The extra benefit besides the social/emotional concepts and message in the story is that it is set in rhyme..... I can then do additional literacy lessons with the class about phonemic awareness..... Then we move onto art where the activity book is so helpful, as it shows step by step ideas on different "kindness stones" to make. I am not that "arty", so this helps to show the students some great prompts. They have all become extremely enthusiastic about the whole "kindness stones" concept that after an activity in the classroom - they all went home badgering their parents to go out and purchase river stones and paints to make them at home.... It is so cute seeing the students coming back to school and hiding these stones for their friends to find. One student even has planned a birthday party next week where the book will be read and then the guests can all create their own stone... How cool is that! So much learning has come about from one lil story book.

A lovely book! I love painting stones, and this is something the kids in my house do too. I love the idea of making others happy in life. The activity at the end of painting a rock and giving it away for someone to add to is a great idea for doing in the EYFS. It’s a great idea to make others happy by giving a beautiful piece of art to another person to add to, before they pass it on to someone else!

Used in kindergarten. The students love this series. They can relate to the feelings and the strategies are age appropriate to use.

This book made me so happy! The illustrations are very cute and the message behind the scribble stones is wonderful.