In order to ensure that children have a healthy social life based on effective relationships, they must cultivate empathy, which is the ability to put themselves in others' shoes, to understand and feel things in the same way as another person experiences them.

This need is fulfilled by the books in this series, which promote emotional intelligence. With the suggested approach for parents and educators, they aim to introduce children to see the world through the eyes of others, after they first learn to recognize and manage their own emotions.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]