The Coffee Bean for Kids: A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change (Jon Gordon)

I do SEL lessons and this book is a great one. I’m going to try and start a coffee bean club at school. Be cautious with object lessons and 10-11 year olds. I gave them each a coffee bean to put in their pocket like the example in the book. By the end of the day I heard a kid ate their coffee bean and threw up. Coffee beans were crushed in the floor of other teacher’s rooms. I should have known, but I am hoping the majority of them took t her lesson to heart. I’m currently reading the one for adults.

This book has a positive message for our children. It is a good book to read to your kids or grandkids. It was recommended by school staff.

Showing kids the power of being positive is not an easy task. But Authors Jon Gordon and Damon West nailed it with their new children’s book The Coffee Bean for Kids, marvelously illustrated by Korey Scott. A spin-off of their adult book The Coffee Bean, the children’s version hits the mark on showing our youngsters the value of spreading their positivity around. I love that the emphasis is that “it all starts with you kid!” Being a coffee bean and positively transforming those around you can lead to awesome leadership skills when we get older.I can’t wait to read Coffee Bean for Kids to my grandkids and kids at school. Great job Jon, Damon and Korey!

Great book! Used it in my classroom - we all need to be coffee beans in this environment!

This book has such a wonderful message for children! It is a fun read and even gives you ideas for a Coffee Bean club at the end of the book. It’s a great conversational piece for parents, teachers or anyone working with kids!

Very enlightening book needed for individuals of all ages especially during the negative pandemic world that we live. Each of us is different. How has the environment changed you? Carrot, egg or Coffee Bean? A very simple lesson told in a very powerful way.

This story is so dull and bizarre that loses all meaning of the supposed feel-good message of...being kind - I think. It's based on a pessimistic world view that life is a "pot of boiling water...a harsh, stressful, and difficult place" and that without this book it is currently "cool to be negative or mean". Then it blabbers on repeating the word "coffee bean" at least 74 times within the thinly texted pages. I know because my 4th grader read aloud while his buddy kept a tally. They couldn't stop laughing at how nutty it sounded. I said they should read it again and do a push up every time they use the word coffee bean and my son's friend said he'd rather do 100 push ups just to never have to read it again.

Such a great book! Used this to teach positivity in my classroom and the kids really enjoyed the metaphors