Maybe I Can Love My Neighbor Too

With colorful pictures and poignant text, this practical and helpful book shows children how to love their neighbors without being preachy.

Maybe I Can Love My Neighbor Too is a timely and powerful book that features a young, biracial girl who asks her mother, Who is my neighbor? As Mom explains, Everyone is your neighbor, the book goes on to show multiple ways people show love throughout their urban neighborhood.

Author Jennifer Grant helps children develop a worldview beyond themselves with her powerful and wise ideas around compassion, diversity, kindness, community, love, and empathy, creating an opportunity for adults to talk with children about what it really means to live out the Golden Rule. Parents, teachers and caregivers highly recommend this book and have seen behavioral changes in children after just one reading.

A wonderful companion book to the award-winning Maybe God Is Like That Too, this beautiful book outlines mutual care for one another, leaving readers contemplating how they might love others in their day-to-day lives.

Jennifer Grant is the award-winning author of picture books for children and books for adults. Her books include Maybe God Is Like That Too, Maybe I Can Love My Neighbor Too, and When Did Everybody Else Get So Old? Grant's work has appeared in Woman's Day, Chicago Parent, Patheos, and her.meneutics, and she is a founding member of INK: A Creative Collective. Grant holds a master's degree in English literature with concentrations in creative writing and critical theory from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. A lifelong Episcopalian and mother of four, she lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter.

Benjamin Schipper loves to create artwork and illustrations that have sad, spooky, and poignant emotions. He likes people in general, and animals in particular. He lives in Greenville, South Carolina with his wife, Karen, and their little black dog, Willow.