Growing Up with a Bucket Full of Happiness: Three Rules for a Happier Life

by Carol McCloud, Penny Weber (Illustrator)

Overview

Do you know you have an invisible bucket which is filled with all of your good thoughts and feelings? If you're new to the concepts of bucket filling and bucket dipping, then this award-winning book is for you. This sequel to Have You Filled a Bucket Today? features easy-to-read chapters, colorful illustrations, and daily questions to help readers become better bucket fillers and give them the tools to live a life filled with happiness
 Winner of:
2010 DIY Book Festival, Honorable Mention, Young Adult
2010 London Book Festival, Honorable Mention, Teenage
2010 Los Angeles Book Festival, Honorable Mention, Young Adult
2010 New England Book Festival, Honorable Mention, Young Adult/Teenage
2011 Mom's Choice Awards, Gold Recipient, Juvenile Level 2 Books (Inspirational/Motivational)
2011 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards, Best Book, Children's Interest
2011 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Grand Prize
2011 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, First Prize: School Issues, Charity/Making a Difference
2011 Young Voices Foundation Book Awards, Gold Recipient, Juvenile/Young Adult Nonfiction
2011 USA Best Book Awards, Finalist, Children's Mind/Body/Spirit
2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold, Juvenile/Teen/Young Adult Nonfiction
2012 San Francisco Book Festival, Runner-up, Teenage
2012 Southern California Book Festival, Runner-up, Young Adult
2013 Great Southeast Book Festival, Runner-up, Young Adult
2013 Great Southwest Book Festival, Runner-up, Young Adult
2013 Paris Book Festival, Honorable Mention, Young Adult

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933916576
Publisher:	Bucket Fillers
Publication date:	11/01/2010
Edition description:	First edition
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Since her first book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids, was published in 2006, Carol McCloud has authored or coauthored seven additional books on “bucket filling.” With a small team of educators, she travels around the world with one goal in mind: to help create happier lives. Carol is a graduate of Oakland University School of Education (Rochester, MI), a certified Emotional Intelligence Trainer, and long-time member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

Editorial Reviews

". . . illuminating to children trying to figure out their responsibilities to others—and will clarify the thinking of adults as well. An inviting guide for children (and their parents) to cultivating happiness and helping others.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-07-06
An illustrated manual focuses on seizing happiness.

McCloud and illustrator Weber reissue on its 10th anniversary the sequel to their 2006 book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? The work lays out three rules for readers—children as well as adults—to find happiness in their lives. All three revolve around the author’s concept of people having buckets they can either fill for themselves or others. Rule 1: Be a bucket filler. “Every time you say or do something caring or thoughtful, you add good thoughts and feelings to someone’s bucket,” McCloud writes, adding a crucial detail: “This makes your bucket fuller.” Rule 2 stems directly from this: Don’t dip into buckets, your own or others, because “while bucket filling adds good stuff to buckets, bucket dipping takes the good stuff out.” And Rule 3 is a bit counterintuitive: Use the “lid” on your bucket, because “if you haven’t learned how to stop others from dipping into your bucket, how will your bucket ever stay filled?” In all cases, the author elaborates on the rule in question, giving dozens of variations and examples of how it applies in everyday life. Opportunities to fill buckets abound. As McCloud points out, every instance of simple kindness helps to fill buckets. And likewise, dipping into buckets can be common: Are you complaining? Are you selfish? The author’s valuable reminder throughout this section is that engaging in these kinds of dipping behaviors depletes your own bucket—and ultimately diminishes your happiness. The section on the third rule—being aware of the lid on your bucket—is the book’s most intriguing and nuanced part, assuring readers that using their lids isn’t an act of selfishness but quite the opposite. The manual, featuring Weber’s colorful images, will be illuminating to children trying to figure out their responsibilities to others—and will clarify the thinking of adults as well.

An inviting guide for children (and their parents) to cultivating happiness and helping others.

Kirkus Reviews