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Children Who Dance in the Rain: Children's Book of the Year Award, a Book about Kindness, Gratitude, and a Child's Determination to Change the World

by Susan Justice

Happiness, gratitude, and a journey to India

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Mom's Choice Gold Award Winner

    Gold Award winner.

AlbakiReads Editorial

Happiness, gratitude, and a journey to India

Sophie’s boredom with everyday life and constant attention to her tablet contrast with the contentment she observes among children living in a mud colony in India. That encounter prompts her to reconsider what happiness means. Framed as a story about empathy, gratitude, and a child’s wish to make a difference, the book connects Sophie’s personal discovery with the broader question of how people respond to lives unlike their own. The description identifies the story as based on true events.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children exploring kindness, gratitude, and empathy through a story.
  • Families seeking a book that opens discussion about differences in daily life and the meaning of happiness.

Themes

GratitudeEmpathyHappinessChildren’s determination to make a difference

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Book overview

★ Human Relations Award, 2023 Children's Book of the Year

★ Purple Dragonfly Book Award Winner

★ Firebird Book Award Winner

★ Next Generation Book Award Winner

★ Family Choice Award Winner

★ Literary Titan Gold Award Winner

★ Mom's Choice Gold Award Winner

★ Golden Wizard Book Prize Winner

★ Story Monsters Award Winner

★ Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winner


Acclaimed as the Children's Book of the Year, a captivating take that cultivates empathy, nurtures self-confidence, and inspires an attitude of appreciation in young minds.


Help foster empathy, emotional intelligence, and social skills by introducing children to diverse perspectives, experiences, and a sense of gratitude for the blessings in their lives.


Meet the children who learned to dance in the rain. Sophie gets bored quickly and won't even eat her food without looking at her tablet. She's thrilled to hear of her family's upcoming trip to a magical place called India, a land she's only heard of in stories. Once there, she quickly realizes that the underprivileged children living in the mud colony possess a joy and contentment she can't explain. Sophie sets out on a journey of discovery, but what she finds may change her world forever. This tale about the true meaning of happiness and the power of gratitude is based on true events.


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