Kids and Planet Books

"The Beautiful Forest is like no other place. The trees stand on their toes from the feet of many legs." That's how Toni opens My Tiny Tiger — book 2 in the Kids and Planet series. For any kid 5-9 who's ever leaned against a tree. kidsandplanet.com

A friend in Mae Sot named Gay Ah corrected us: "We are family." The work in places like Mae La doesn't belong to grandparents from Austin who fly in for a week. It belongs to him. We stand with @PartnersRelief.

Wyatt is 8. One night at bedtime he told his mom he was sad about people without enough to eat. Most kid stories end there. Wyatt's didn't — he ran a grilled cheese fundraiser, raised ~$1,700, and stocked a Blessing Box with $2K of food. (h/t ClickOnDetroit / Local 4)

A kid walked up to a Massachusetts ice cream truck with no money. He started to cry and walk away. Maddy called him back. "We don't turn kids away" — that's her rule. Kids remember who didn't make them feel small. (h/t @TODAYshow · @maddysicecreamandmore)

Cordell, 13, shows up at Second Harvest Food Bank in Orlando on his own. Packs meals. Asks who's going to eat them — not how many. *Who.* When you raise a generous kid, everyone wins. (h/t Spectrum News 13)

What if every book a kid read made another kid's life better? That's not wishful thinking. KAP books include a QR code. Kids scan it, donate $1+ to a local charity of their choice. Kids helping kids. What books shaped how you see the world? #KidsAndPlanet #ChildrensLiteracy

A small nonprofit runs on three things: the work, the records of the work, and the people who'll vouch for it. The work is the part you see — bags on shelves, mangroves in the mud, partners in five countries showing up because we showed up. The records — that's what we've been

A week after Earth Day, the hashtag is gone. A kid in the Sunderbans is still pressing a mangrove into the mud. Tuesday. Wednesday. The day after the camera leaves. That's the part we wanted to say something about — not on Earth Day, when everyone's saying it. After. When the s

When you raise a generous kid, everyone wins. That's the whole thesis. Generosity — the muscle a kid builds when they choose, in their own small way, to lift someone else up. Every kid who learns it changes the room they walk into for life.

A 5th grader in Rochester, MN made a personalized bookmark for every adult in her school — ~40 of them. One landed on a staff member's first day back from leave. Generosity, measured in time and attention. When you raise a generous kid, everyone wins. (via KTTC)

The adults are fighting. The kids suffer, and the planet groans. We believe better is possible.

Not every mission trip requires a passport. @AustinBlessings. Every week. Right here in Austin. We show up when we're home. Worth your time if you're local.

Mom #1: Spider-Man backpack. Turkey sandwich. A note. Mom #2: Plastic bag. Handful of rice. A prayer at the checkpoint. Same love. Very different weight.

She lives in a refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border. She routinely hears the bombs. When we visited, they played music and sang for us. That's who she is. #partnersreliefanddevelopment

11 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean every year. One mangrove tree absorbs 4x more carbon than a rainforest tree. We plant one for every product sold. Small math. Real math. 🌱 kidsandplanet.com

You can lecture a kid about empathy for an hour. Or you can hand them a story and let them feel it. That's why Toni writes the Kids and Planet books. Not to teach. To open a door. 📚 kidsandplanet.com

70 kids in a Sunderbans classroom. First-generation students, every one of them. Their teacher shows up to a room with a thatch roof that floods three months a year. That's the best investment we've ever seen.

We just rebranded from OceanBags to The Kids and Planet Project. Old name answered "what do you sell?" New name answers "what do you stand for." Same mission. Bigger tent. 🌱 kidsandplanet.com

Spring break in Austin: lake days and sleeping in. Spring in a Lebanese shelter: another week on a gym floor with no books. Same season. Very different spring.

Ranjit lives where the mangroves meet the sea. His courage isn't loud — it's the kind that gets up every morning when the ground itself isn't certain. My Tiny Tiger by T.C. Haas. 📚 kidsandplanet.com