Empathy

=Imagining themselves in another's situation in order to understand his or her reasoning and emotions, so as the be open minded and reflective about the perspectives of others.=

=Primary=

**Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale**
A big blue whale comes to live near their reef creating a misunderstanding between him and Rainbow Fish and his friends that leaves everyone very unhappy and hungry.

**The Bear's Toothache**
When he discovers a bear with a toothache outside his window, a little boy tries to think of ways of removing the tooth.

**Masai and I**
Linda, a little girl who lives in the city, learns about East Africa and the Masai in school, and imagines what her life might be like if she were Masai.

**Crow Boy**
The story of a strange, shy little boy in a Japanese village school who was ignored by his classmates until suddenly, and almost too late, a new teacher showed them that Crow Boy has much to offer.

=Secondary=

**Beauty and the Beast**
Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.

Through Grandpa's Eyes
A young boy learns a different way of seeing the world from his blind grandfather.

**Annie and the Old One**
A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.

**Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge**
Originally published in Australia by Omnibus Books in 1984"--Colophon. A small boy tries to discover the meaning of "memory" so he can restore that of an elderly friend.