Sophie and the swans
2024 Family Choice Award Winner
2024 Purple Dragonfly Award
2024 Literary Titan Gold Award
2024 Bookfest Award
Sophie is a little girl who lives beside a lake and makes friends with a pair of swans who visit her every day. One day, when a bully starts to torment the swans, Sophie rushes to defend them not by attacking the bully, but by showing him kindness when he gets into trouble on the lake.
I hope the story illuminates the problem of bullying and shows how the power of kindness can sometimes diffuse that behavior. I also hope the advice Sophie’s mother gives her will resonate with readers of all ages:
“Always try and treat others with kindness, even if they aren’t kind to you."
--Holly Peppe
ALSO by Holly peppe
Edna St. Vincent Millay: Early Poems
(Penguin Classics, 1998) Introduction
Collected Poems: Edna St. Vincent Millay
(Harper Perennial, 2011) Foreword and Critical Essay
Touch the Sky: My Solo Flight Around the World
(Scholastic, 2012) Barrington Irving and Holly Peppe
Mum's the Word: The High-Flying Adventures of Eve Branson
(AuthorHouse, 2013) Eve Branson and Holly Peppe
Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay: An Annotated Edition
(Yale University Press, 2016) Timothy F. Jackson (Editor), Holly Peppe (Introduction)
Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
(Yale University Press, 2022) Daniel Mark Epstein (Editor), Holly Peppe (Foreword)
Into the World’s Great Heart: Selected Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay
(Yale University Press, 2023) Timothy F. Jackson (Editor), Holly Peppe (Foreword)