Chicken Soup for the Little Souls Reader: The Greatest Gift of All

By Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

In The Greatest Gift of All, Izzy finds out that her parents won't let her go to Pine View Camp. Her summer is ruined! But things begin to change for Izzy when she starts to do Give-back Time with Grandpa Mike and meets the Braids Girl.

The Chicken Soup for Little Souls series (more than 400,000 copies sold) brought the magic of Chicken Soup to young readers with heartwarming stories of love, friendship, and kindness that parents could read to their young children. Now these classic books have been resized and rewritten into intermediate-level readers that kids 6 and up can read themselves. While the text has been shortened and simplified, it retains the enduring Chicken Soup message of sincere and heartfelt virtue.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul
• Release date: Oct 23, 2012
• ISBN: 9781453274804

Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield, America's #1 Success Coach, is the cocreator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers, and coauthor with Gay Hendricks of You've GOT to Read This Book! An internationally renowned corporate trainer, Jack has trained and certified over 4,100 people to teach the Success Principles in 115 countries. He is also a podcast host, keynote speaker, and popular radio and TV talk show guest. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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CHICKEN

SOUP

for

LITTLE

SOULS

READER

The

Greatest

Gift Of all

Story by

Lisa McCourt

Ilustrated by

Tim Ladwig

Based on the story The Braids Girl also by Lisa McCourt

Backlist, LLC, a unit of

Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC

Cos Cob, CT

www.chickensoup.com

For Karen Baliff, my ever-awesome Little Souls partner,

and for all the other amazing people at HCI

—L.M.

For Makayla

—T.L.

For Christopher, for truly understanding the meaning of selfless giving

—J.C.

This book is dedicated to inspiring you to be the greatest giver in the world

—M.V.H.

For my wife, Anne, and our children, Melinda and Hayley

—P.V.

For my daughter, Mandy, and my sons, Oliver and Robert,

in the hope this will inspire them to open and turn the pages

of this precious volume

—G.S.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: MAD!

CHAPTER 2: GIVE-BACK TIME

CHAPTER 3: WORRIES

CHAPTER 4: THINGS

CHAPTER 5: SUSAN

CHAPTER 6: THE NEWS

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CHAPTER 1

MAD!

I was mad.