Buckets, Dippers, and Lids: Secrets to Your Happiness

by Carol McCloud, Glenn Zimmer (Illustrator)

Buckets, Dippers, and Lids is a well-constructed, inspirational self-help book for young readers. Carol McCloud offers practical tools and tips for happiness . . . Taking a clever and abstract approach to self-help, the book uses imaginary buckets, dippers, and lids to represent the tools that are necessary to attain and maintain happiness. The engaging, instructional text is also conversational and organized. Short, teachable statements are punctuated by questions related to challenging circumstances, including family issues like sibling rivalries and school issues like bullying. . . " - Anita Lock, Clarion/Foreword Reviews This bridge book release in the bestselling Bucket Fillers line takes the concept of bucket filling one step further by adding the idea that we also have an invisible lid. We "use our lid" to protect and keep the happiness inside our bucket. Offering charming illustrations with personified buckets, dippers, and lids, readers learn what gives happiness, what takes it away, and what protects it. This concrete concept helps children of all ages grow in understanding, kindness, self-control, resilience, empathy, and forgiveness. A valuable teaching tool for home, school, and life, this is a stand-alone or companion book to the other award-winning books by Bucket Fillers, Inc.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

48 pages, Hardcover

Published August 1, 2018

About the author

Carol McCloud, the "Bucket Lady," is the author of ten books, which began with the ever-popular "Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids" in 2006. By trade, Carol is a speaker, author, and certified emotional intelligence trainer. Her books have sold more than three million copies and have been translated into many different languages and in different formats. A champion for bucket filling, Carol works with a powerful presenter team who strive to help people of all ages and occupations lead happier lives by growing in kindness, self-control, resilience, and forgiveness.

For more information, visit bucketfillers101.com or on your favorite social media channel at @BucketFillers1.

Reviews

[Sandy Richardson]

This is a great read for both children and adults alike. The colors are amazing and the illustrations are so creative.

Carol McCloud has taken her original book one step further with the content in this new book. My 10 year old loves it. As a parent, I appreciate the author's acknowledgment that there will always be inevitable "dips" in our lives, but we can learn to control how we react to them. This book teaches self awareness and self control and stresses that you need to use your lid to keep your own bucket full. It's a great message to nurture resilience in our children but also shows that ultimately, we are most happy as people when we are kind to others. Great message for adults as well!

[Tessa Maguire]

This is such a great child appropriate book for teaching children that they have an active role in their responses to situations they do not enjoy. By introducing the concepts of lids, children learn that they own their feelings and can protect their own peace. It's a great next step in the bucket filling series, especially for intermediate grades children.

[Pam]

McCloud explains the three important pieces of keeping your bucket filled. The illustrations clearly show the character reactions and how buckets get filled; dippers empty them, and lids protect the buckets. Clear way to help younger readers understand how to nurture others and themselves and protect themselves from unkind/mean comments and people.

[Tiffany]

Loved this book! It really helped my elementary age children understand how their words and actions can affect others. The best part is that I'll be able to use the bucket/dipper/lid analogy throughout the day to help them adjust their behavior.

[Kim]

Everyone has a bucket that is filled with happiness, a dipper to remove happiness and a lid to help protect your bucket. I love the lesson, but the illustrations and delivery are a difficult sell. Good for K-2 especially if you read/discuss a section at a time.

[Moyra Duckmanton]

This book is great to illustrate how we can be happy, make ourselves happy, other people impacting our happiness and the all important introduction of boundaries, and protecting our happiness.
I love this idea of an invisible happiness bucket, and how we can fill it, and keep it full.

[Ms.Theisen]

This story has a great concept of buckets, dippers, and lids. However, my students were very checked out and had a hard time understanding what the book meant. I often found myself explaining to them what most pages meant which took up a lot of time.

[Heather]

The concepts introduced in this book are great. However, the book itself reads and looks like an elementary school textbook--I wish there was a little more imagination interwoven into the book.

[The Bookies Bookstore]

We love everything Carol puts out! And she'll be with us in-store in July! How excited we all are!

[Jillian]

Cute idea. Seems like it would work well for little kids, but I'm far too old and cynical now to really have it work for me. :-p
Good diversity in the illustrations!

[Alison Slyman]

All of the books in this series are excellent!

[Chris Peck]

Phenomenal resource for SEL but it reads too much like a resource to give all 5 stars. I'll still gladly have it in my classroom.

[Patricia Gmitrovic]

Secrets to happiness