The Colors of Kindness
Elementary Schools - PreK through 3rd Grade
Children’s author and kindness advocate, providing schools a positive approach to encourage good behavior. PJ empowers children to be adventurers in kindness, so they can grow up to be loving, kind and respectful to themselves and to others.
PJ’s character, Sophie G Wanderlin, is a one-of-a-kind adventurer, who teaches children that they are special, that their big ideas matter and that kindness is an adventure. Sophie and her companion, BOB the Cat, along with Sophie’s friends, are on a quest to make the world a kinder place. All their adventures are centered around the “Colors of Kindness”, which is a way for schools to encourage good behaviors.
PJ has read to over 3000 children across several states, wearing her rainbow socks and spreading her influence to help change the direction of our children’s future. PJ's work is aligned with positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) set forth by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) influencing future generations to be loving, kind and respectful to themselves and to others.
Author of Sophie G Wanderlin One of a Kind, Author House, 2017
Author Events
2021 Kindness Tour
Morning Creek Elementary - March - San Diego, CA
Carillion Elementary - Literacy Week - January - Oviedo, Florida
2020 Kindness Tour
Arlington Girl Scouts - What color is your life? 10/11-11/15/2020 (Troop Invite Only)
2019 Kindness Tour
Busboys Books Presents: Children's Books 4 Peace, Washington, DC 08/21/2019
Armel Elementary School, Winchester, VA 04/01/2019
2018 Kindness Tour
Armel Elementary School, Winchester, VA 10/30/2018
Missile and Defense Agency, Take Your Child to Work, Fort Belvoir, VA 04/26/2018
B.M. Williams Elementary School, Chesapeake, VA 03/14/2018
2017 Kindness Tour
Warwick Elementary School, Jamison, PA 05/24/2017
E. Wilson Morrison Elementary School, Front Royal, VA 05/12/2017
Mountain Mystic Trading Company, Front Royal, VA 04/22/2017
St. Mary’s Nativity School, Raceland, LA 03/24/2017
California Creative Performing Arts Academy, San Diego, CA 03/17/2017
Shoal Creek Elementary School, Poway, CA 03/15/2017
Shoal Creek Elementary School, Poway, CA 03/14/2017
Shoal Creek Elementary School, Poway, CA 03/13/2017
Bay Park Elementary School, San Diego, CA 03/10/2017
Lisa Park Elementary School, Houma, LA 02/23/2017