The fascinating story's diverse array of characters and clear explanations of empathy inspire children to help their friends through challenging times and to be nice and sensitive toward others. The illustrations greatly enhance the story and are colorful and vibrant.

I would like to thank NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

This book was SO ADORABLE and definitely something children need to hear.

I personally think that the wording was a BIT awkward and a bit too advanced for the audience it is marking towards. I tried to read it aloud as I went along as if I was reading to my niece and nephews and a lot of it made me stumble.

I recently had the pleasure of reading "The Power of Empathy," and I must say, it's a wonderful addition to our home library. The illustrations in this book are absolutely stunning. They are vibrant, captivating, and truly bring Orbit's world to life. Every page is a visual delight that will keep young readers engaged.

What really stands out about this book is its approach to teaching children about emotions and empathy. The real-life examples used are relatable and easy for kids to understand. It's a gentle way of introducing these concepts and helping children recognize and navigate their own emotions, as well as those of others.

One aspect that I particularly appreciated is how the book enables children to see themselves in the examples. It creates a connection that fosters empathy and understanding, which is so crucial for their social development. We have been working on "I feel..." statements at home, and this really helped show my kiddo that it's important to express yourself.

Overall, if you're looking for a beautifully illustrated book that gently introduces the concept of empathy to young children, "The Power of Empathy" is definitely worth checking out. It's an engaging read-aloud experience that will spark meaningful discussions and promote empathy in your little ones.

I really enjoyed this children's book about empathy, I think it's so important for kids to have access to stories like this one where they are encouraged to show their emotions. It touched on a wide range of regular emotions for children and adults alike and the characters were very inclusive which I really enjoyed aswell! I think this book would be good for children aged 4yrs + , some of the wording used is a little advance for anyone younger I believe, but this is a perfect book that can be introduced in both a classroom or at home! Fantastic! I really enjoyed the illustrations also ☺️

This book is excellent! As an empath myself, I love the idea of letting kids know it's important and good to feel for others, including animals. The artwork is spectacular! ❤️

The Power of Empathy is one in a series by Ruth Mailke, that helps children understand their emotions and feelings. In this book, Orbit, a friendly orb who looks like the earth from far away, is teaching his friends about empathy. This “superpower” is a bit more difficult than understanding the traits of kindness and positivity as in previous books.

Orbit, is the storyteller and is visiting children in the park. He offers some examples and asks questions that allow each child to provide their own thoughts on the subject of empathy. He puts it into a practical perspective by detailing scenarios enabling them to identify how they feel in response to various situations.

The author did a good job of making the term understandable in a wide variety of situations. I particularly liked the example of a child telling a friend about her trip to the zoo, where the other child responds that he was happy his friend got to go and that they had fun. This is an area where some children naturally may feel envious instead of empathetic.

The illustrations were very cute, (especially with the two bandaids on his head) and Orbit has a friendly face. This is a really useful, well-written picture book that can be used a a tool to help children and hopefully adults to practice empathy.

I don’t see young readers reaching for this book, but as I said it is a a wonderful tool for character education.

As a teacher, librarian and mom I am always looking for books that help kids understand and navigate their emotions. I want to have this book a the school and my home. The book helps kids learn to manage new and unfamiliar feelings. When we know why we feel the way we do it’s easier to guide those feelings into the best possible responses. The books illustrations and words help kids grasp the concept and relate to it.

Empathy is such a hard phrase to learn the meaning of but this book is written in a way that helps youngsters begin to understand. It is quite wordy so we had to read it a couple of times to start to begin to understand the topic but the examples given were great for children to be able to relate to.

I loved this book! As a teacher of early elementary students, I found this book to be engaging and just the right length for students. I love how inclusive the kids were in the pictures. It made for an easy read to explain why being empathetic is so important. What a great superpower for all kids to have!

First of all, I want to thank the author and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The Power of Empathy by Ruth Mallie is coming out on October 12, 2023.

This book was great and explained empathy so well. The illustrations really brought this book to life. The book gave many examples of empathy and explained it very well for children to understand. This would be a wonderful book to add to your home of school library.
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I read this book with my daughter and it was perfect! The book explains what empathy is in a way that was really easy for her to understand. The pictures are bright and colorful and add a lot to the story. I would recommend this for every elementary reader!

Understanding that this is an ARC and not the completed work necessarily, I still have to mention that the text is all a jumble. Out of order, so that it is nearly unintelligible. I’m sure this will be fixed before it goes to print or is released as an ebook. At least I hope so.

That said, once I pieced it together, I could see that the book would be a good stepping stone for anyone who works with young children to get the, thinking about empathy, what it is and how to cultivate it. There are excellent examples from many different perspectives.

The illustrations are vivid, like animation, and do a good job of extrapolating on the text.

The Power of Empathy is a delightful little book that helps children to understand what empathy is, as well as why it is important enough to be a superpower that anyone would like to have!

Orbit, who is the storyteller visiting children in the park, gives some examples and asks questions that allow each child to provide their own thoughts on the matter, thereby enabling them to identify how they feel in response to various situations.

I particularly like how concepts such as being happy for others were broken down in a way that a young child would be able to grasp. Emotions such as anger, disappointment and sadness were also illustrated by discussing particular situations that every child will have experienced at one time or another.

The illustrations were very cute, and the open ended way that Orbit interacted with the children provides an example of how any adult could initiate a discussion like this with the children in their life. This is a really useful, well-written and nicely illustrated children's book.

Being a homeschool mother of 6 kids I really enjoyed this book! I highly recommend it for parents, homeschoolers, and to be read in the classroom as well. Even counselors can use this when they need to talk to kids about their feelings.

I love how it started off calling empathy a superpower. Being a mother myself, I felt classifying it has a superpower instead focusing solely on it being just a feeling allows children to want to show their superpowers to the world.

My kids and I really enjoyed the beautiful illustrations of the book. With the book giving many examples on the definition on empathy in a way for kids to understand if from different perspectives and points was very smart. I felt like my youngest with him being 5 years old, he was easily able to understand what it means while my older kids did as well.

It didn’t focus on the bad things but how empathy can be about happy times too. When the kids in the book listed all the different feelings. I was able to ask my kids if they felt that way too. It made the experience not only reading together as a family but turned it into a discussion too.

This would be a wonderful book to add to a home or school library to read on a regular basis to reinforce the power of empathy.

It was easy to read and the story was easy to follow along. There were several different examples given in language easy for children to understand and relate to.

Thank you Netgalley books for the free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

"today I'm going to tell you about a superpower called EMPATHY". What an amazing way to start the book, offering the big word we want children to pull from this and relating it to a superpower (which it is).
The book illustrates a variety of settings and circumstances in which empathy can be found, seen, and felt. It shows how empathy is found through understanding, by putting yourself in someone elses shoes and feeling what they feel too. There are many situations described where the kids in the book identify with times they have empathized with their friends and families in a variety of emotional settings, whether their friends were happy or sad, angry and mad, how they came from a place of understanding and validation.
I really enoyed reading through this copy with my daughter, the book is overall illustrated very nicely, we liked the color pops of each page (although a handful of pages we thought the planet Earth character was a bit "creepy" looking). There were a lot of conversations surrounding emotions and emotion identification throughout the book which allowed for a good discussion at the end of the book.
This would be a good addition to an empathy and understanding unit of learning.

Such a fun book to teach kids about empathy. Definitely think it was explained in good ways for the younger ones who are just learning about the different emotions and how to describe them. And I love the illustrations! Some great representation in there.

This was a cute book! I love books that teach kids about how they're feeling and that it's okay to feel a lot of different things. I think it might be a little hard for my toddler to understand yet, but this would be a perfect book for kids just starting preschool/kindergarten/etc. The pictures were also great at showing what was going on!

What a great story about empathy! I am planning to ask my students to grab one copy. It will help them to understand the concept in depth and in a fun way. Love it!

The Power of Empathy is a sweet storybook tool to teach young ones about empathy, and to help them better understand their myriad emotions. Through the story, it portrays empathy as a superpower- which it could be argued, it very much is.

A delightful, beautifully rendered picturebook for children’s emotional development.