Buckets, Dippers, and Lids: Secrets to Your Happiness

The media could not be loaded. I’m a therapist and I’ve been using this book for years! I love it for my kids from ages 4-12.This book is super high quality with glossy pages. The size makes it easy to read to the kids and the photos keep them engaged.The story is great for getting the kids involved. I generally have them draw their buckets and dippers afterwards and write down what fills and takes from their buckets.I’ve seen such improves in my kids with using this book!

This is a wonderful book! I read it to my class and the kids loved it! It's not only good for children, adults can relate as well.

I read this book to my class a few times during the year. I especially like to concept of lids. The author does a great job with teaching abstract concepts with simple analogies.

Super cute book. Read it to my 4th graders during the first week of school to launch our kindness SEL unit!

Great concept for kids to comprehend kindness, empathy and general emotional intelligence i highly recommend

Loved the book. I read it with my 2nd graders, and it really added to our SEL lessons. It gave the kids a common vocabulary.

This is a book that every single adult should read and make part of their lives and then read it and read it to the children in their lives. I bought it for my daughter, my niece and will certainly buy it for many others.

Amazing lesson! Had a student ask to stay in from recess after we read this and clean everyone's desk tops for them. When they came in she asked if she could let them know she'd cleaned. She beamed as they said, "Thank you!" and I asked them if the could *see* her invisible bucket fill. Several of them said yes! They fully understood the lesson!

I love these bucket books, they should have them read in every school.

The concept is beautiful. 9.5 year old nephew had first read how full is your bucket and he really loved reading the concept through Felix. He liked knowing the concept of buckets, dippers and lids. Into the first few pages he was a bit disappointed as it was not in a story format. As he went through as a few examples came in, he started visualizing the story from the pictures and he could enjoy it more. He latched on to the concept very fast. Though as mentioned it's gonna need a lot of practice for us to actually make the concept habit

This is second in a series of similar books and takes the idea of filling your bucket and other people's imaginary buckets with happiness or positive messages. This book explains the next part of how those good things can be removed by a "dipper" and how to avoid this by putting the "lid" on your bucket. It leads you into conversations about strategies to avoid other people making you unhappy, not allowing them to take away your positivity. It can be read just as s story, used with children needing strategies to make them more resilient or even with adults.

I am a preschool professional. I have used the bucket filling books with ages 2-12 and everyone just seems to get it!! These resources are AMAZING.

This is a great book. My daughter loves it. It talks about kindness and about building confidence to protect yourself from those that aren't.