Cara's Kindness

Name: Cara's Kindness
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Kristi Yamaguchi
ISBN: 9781666587401

Author: Kristi Yamaguchi

Narrator: Susie Berneis

Unabridged: 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 01/24/2017

Categories: Children's Fiction, Animal Stories, Performing Arts Stories, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

Cara the Cat is struggling with picking the perfect song for her new ice-skating routine. But when a friend in need turns up at the rink, Cara drops everything to lend a helping hand. All she asks is that he pay it forward! Before long, Cara's kindness is passed all around...and might even make its way back home! Kristi Yamaguchi is an ice-skating Olympic gold medalist and world champion who knows how to lend a helping hand! As founder of the Always Dream Foundation, Kristi helps promote early childhood literacy. Through her newest picture book, Kristi inspires children of all ages to pay it forward!

About Kristi Yamaguchi

Following her figure skating victories at the 1992 Winter Olympics and World Championships, Kristi skated professionally for more than a decade. This past year, Kristi Yamaguchi's Friends and Family TV special aired on NBC for the fourth straight year and she was a winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars.

About Susie Berneis

Susie Berneis is a versatile voiceover artist with numerous narration credits to her name. She has an ear for dialect and a love for the process of developing characters, which has been cultivated through her twenty-plus years of experience as a community and regional stage actress. Based in Ann Arbor (home of the University of Michigan, where she received her BA in English and theatre), she now takes great joy in playing all the characters she encounters in her narration.

About John Lee

John Lee is an illustrator from Memphis, TN currently living in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, and MFA from SVA's Illustration as Visual Essay program. He's worked in a variety of markets including: storyboarding, advertising, editorial, book, fashion and web illustration, as well as live drawing and reportage. He has also taught illustration at the Memphis College of Art.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Prabhjot

Cara ice skates but she hasn't found the right music for her upcoming performance. When she sees someone sitting on the side and looking sad, she goes over and asks them if everything's okay. She helps him and then she says to pass on the kindness. From there on, kids help each other and tell others......more

Goodreads review by Cara

This is a lovely tale. Of course, the main character is a figure skater. I elected to read it for I was intrigued by a children's book with my first name in the title. Lee's illustrations are lovely, too. I found Cara the cat to have very expressive eyes. Cara's message is to pass kindness on to o......more