Benny and the Broken Pot

Great Choices, Book One. Benny breaks the honey pot when nobody is watching. His mother is singing in the garden. She did not hear a thing. Alone in the kitchen, with the honey spreading across the floor, he looks up at the empty shelf and thinks about telling a lie.

Tiki the turtle lives at the bottom of the valley, where the sky is only a thin green strip between the trees. Every evening the birds fly home talking about colors she has never seen. One night she decides to climb up and look, one evening at a time.

Two quiet read-aloud stories about honesty and perseverance, for children ages 4 to 8 and the grown-ups reading with them. A gentle social emotional learning picture book for bedtime, for preschool and kindergarten classrooms, and for any child learning about telling the truth and not giving up.

Written by a licensed child psychologist and illustrated in a soft watercolor style. Each book ends with a note for the grown-ups and five questions to talk about together.