Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed, paperback

by Emily Pearson, Fumi Kosaka (Illustrator)

Overview

Now available in paperback!

Celebrate the fifteenth anniversary edition of this feel-good story that continues to inspire and celebrate a world full of ordinary deeds!

Can one child's good deed change the world? It can when she’s Ordinary Mary—an ordinary girl from an ordinary school, on her way to her ordinary house—who stumbles upon ordinary blueberries. When she decides to pick them for her neighbor, Mrs. Bishop, she starts a chain reaction that multiplies around the world.

Updated illustrations and endpapers are now paired with this beloved storyline as it stirs a whole new generation on to more random acts of kindness—proving one child's compassion and empathy really can change the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781423648871
Publisher:	Smith, Gibbs Publisher
Publication date:	09/05/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	74,963
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 10.30(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	4 - 12 Years

About the Author

Emily Pearson is the co-author of Fuzzy Red Bathrobe: Questions from the Heart for Mothers and Daughters. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Read an Excerpt

Ordinary Mary was so very ordinary that you'd never guess she could change the world. This ordinary kid? She did! She changed the world!


One ordinary day, skipping on her way from her ordinary school to her ordinary house, she passed an ordinary vacant lot filled with ordinary bushes growing ordinary berries—ordinary blue and juicy, luscious lovely berries.


Well, Ordinary Mary picked the ordinary berries and brought them in a big brown bowl to Mrs. Bishops porch.


What? Left berries in a big brown bol on Mrs. Bishops porch?


That sneaky kid! She did!

Introduction

Can one good deed from an ordinary girl change the world? It can when she's Ordinary Mary - an ordinary girl from an ordinary school, on her way to her ordinary house - who stumbles upon ordinary blueberries. When she decides to pick them for her neighbor, Mrs. Bishop, she starts a chain reaction that multiplies around the world. Mrs. Bishop makes blueberry muffins and gives them to her paperboy and four others - one of whom is Mrs. Stevens, who then helps five different people with their luggage and so on, until the deed comes back to Mary. It's a feel-good story that inspires and celebrates a world full of ordinary deeds!

About the Author:
Emily Pearson is the co-author of Fuzzy Red Bathrobe: Questions from the Heart for Mothers and Daughters. She has worked for years as a professional actress both on the stage and in television and film. Most recently she received a double nomination for Best Actress in a Musical by the Connecticut Drama Critics' Circle. This is her first children's book.

Editorial Reviews

An ordinary girl from an ordinary school does a seemingly ordinary good deed, but in doing so she changes the whole world. This book has inspired real-life acts of kindness all around the world and will leave you inspired to join in.

Sarah Lloyd-Jones

Someone shared this story at an education conference I attended and I immediately ordered the full book for my daughter. It begins with one ordinary girl’s kind gesture to a neighbor—and follows along as the first kind gesture begets another one, and another one, and another one, and so on. It’s a fantastic lesson in how small gestures can have a huge impact.

Book Riot - Steph Auteri