Through simple prose and vivid illustrations, this heartwarming book encourages positive behavior as children see how rewarding it is to express daily kindness, appreciation, and love. Bucket filling and dipping are effective metaphors for understanding the effects of our actions and words on the well being of others and ourselves.
Winner of Fifteen Awards:
2007 – Best Children’s Picture Book, Behavioral, Mom’s Choice Awards
2007 – Best Children’s Picture Book, Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards
2007 – Best Children’s Picture Book, DIY Book Festival
2007 – Best Children’s Picture Book, Books-and-Authors.net
2007 – Top 10 Children’s Books, Best You Can Be Foundation
2007 – Honorable Mention, Children’s Books, London Book Festival
2008 – Silver Medal, Children’s/Young Adult Non-Fiction Books, Nautilus Book Awards
2008 – Best Children’s Interest Book, NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards
2011 – First Place, Educational/Instructional Books, Purple Dragonfly Book Awards
2012 – Winner, Children’s Books, Southern California Book Festival
2012 – Winner, Children’s Books, 9th Annual Learning Magazine’s Teacher’s Choice Awards
2013 – Honorable Mention, Children’s Books, The Great Southwest Book Festival
2013 – Honorable Mention, Children’s Books, The Great Northwest Book Festival
2013 – Winner, Children’s Books, The Great Southeast Book Festival
2013 – Honorable Mention, Children’s Books, Hollywood Book Festival
Additional Honors:
2012 – Top Ten Most Inspirational Children’s Book, Children’s Book Guide
Product Features
- Through sweet, simple prose and vivid illustrations, children learn the meaning of the terms, bucket filling and bucket dipping and discover that when they fill someone’s bucket, they fill their own.
- winner of 15 Awards!
- “Awesome anti-bully book!”

A fun and engaging way for children (and adults) to learn how to treat others 0
Okay, but not as good as “How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids” 0