Father Joe’s Six Golden Seeds

Follow along with the read-aloud and song here: https://www.kathrynthegrape.com/pages/father-joes-six-golden-seedsFather Joe’s Six Golden Seeds is a unifying story and songbook that provides six principles for experiencing goodness. Through vibrant illustrations and rhythmic storytelling, Kathryn the Grape shares how goodness grows from being compassionate, forgiving, respectful, helpful, and empowering while experiencing God in everyone and everything. All proceeds from this book support children and families in need. Father Joe - A Humble HeroThis book was inspired by Father Joe Carroll’s example of goodness. Father Joe (1941-2021) helped millions of unhoused neighbors in need have access to meals, housing, education, job training, medical care, and more. Author Kathryn Cloward created the six golden seeds concept from life lessons she gained from Father Joe during her over 150 hours of recorded conversations with him while gathering information for writing his memoir, Father Joe: Life Stories of a Hustler Priest. In this book, readers learn about the true story of how Kathryn the Grape’s signature purple outfit came from the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store in downtown San Diego, California, when Kathryn’s mom worked alongside Father Joe in the early years of his work with unhoused neighbors in need.Kathryn the Grape SongbooksKathryn the Grape Songbooks are learning tools for children. Since speech and language processing happens in different hemispheres of the brain, when a child sings along to a song while seeing the words they are singing, they activate both areas simultaneously. This dual activation assists with comprehension, memory retention, sight word recognition, phonemic awareness, and overall cognitive development. Kathryn the Grape Songbooks support diverse learning styles and abilities with entertaining and educational songs, illustrated books, and engaging videos.Award-Winning Children’s SeriesKathryn the Grape has earned over 60 awards for excellence in positive family-friendly media. Adults appreciate Kathryn the Grape’s books because the narrative of every story has a real purpose and features illustrated characters representing diverse abilities, ages, and ethnicities. Kathryn the Grape provides a trio of media options in books, songs, and videos to support various learning styles and abilities.About Kathryn the Grape-Purple-Powered PositivityKathryn Cloward was inspired to bring her 'Kathryn the Grape' childhood nickname to life as an illustrated character to be a messenger of love through heart-centered mindful stories and songs featuring positive, empowering, and inclusive topics. She is passionate and purposeful in her desire to provide people of all ages with simple and relatable tools for navigating life while providing educational and entertaining content. Dressed in the replica of her favorite purple outfit from childhood, Kathryn the Grape is engaging for children as an illustrated character in books and on-screen, plus as a real person in videos and at concerts.