With faith and patience, you will see that you can do anything. The book: A large stone, swept away by the swollen river, forcefully embeds itself in the most beautiful plane tree on the riverbank and opens a hole in its trunk. The tree loses the graceful stature that people, animals, and birds admire. After a while, the wound is about to close, and the plane tree seems to regain its magnificent beauty. However, it decides to sacrifice it to fulfill the dream of the stone that wounded it and with which it has since become friends. Animals and birds insist that it will not succeed and will sacrifice its enviable trunk in vain. However, it turns out they were wrong because, with faith and patience, the tree achieved something it really wanted. The series: To ensure children have a healthy social life based on effective relationships, they must cultivate empathy, the ability to put themselves in others' shoes, understand, and feel things the same way another person experiences them. This need is addressed by the illustrated books in this series, which promote emotional intelligence. With the approach suggested for parents and educators, they attempt to initiate children into seeing the world through the eyes of others, after first learning to recognize and manage their own emotions. The author: Yolanda Tsoroni-Georgiadis is a graduate of the Law School, the Pedagogical Academy, the Department of Pedagogy of the University of Athens, and has further trained at the Marasleio Teaching School. She worked for many years in public education, writes for pedagogical magazines, is an active member of the Women's Literary Society, and has published many children's books, novels for adults, and studies of folklore content.