A Call to Character: A Family Treasury of stories, poems, plays, proverbs, and fables to guide the development of values for you and your children

Title

en_US A Call to Character: A Family Treasury of stories, poems, plays, proverbs, and fables to guide the development of values for you and your children

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Colin Greer & Herbert Kohl, editors

Creator

en_US Greer, Colin See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:29:44Z

en_US 1997-12

en_US 1995

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:29:44Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US This book has four sections, dealing with values relating to 1) oneself, 2) known others, 3) unknown others and nature, and 4) love. Fables are scattered about. They include morals from student fables collected by Kohl (34; e.g. Better to be old than bold!); eighth-grader Mark Vecchoise's parody The Head Man (72); Brian Patten's delightful You'd Better Believe Him: A Fable (102); Leo Lionni's Frederick (109); Aesop, The Lion and the Boar (269) retold by Ann McGovern; Fable reported as anonymous (333; really Perry #36 with an oracle instead of the old man here asked whether what two young people hold in their hands is dead or alive); Aesop's OF (360) retold by William Caxton; and Leonard Jenkin's Birds, Beasts, and Bat (382; a very nice updating of Aesop). The book represents a noble effort to engage parents and their children in the discussion of values well depicted in classic literature. See the pair of audio cassettes of the same title.

Identifier

en_US 60173394

en_US 3094 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78501

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US HarperCollins Publishers

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PN6014.G72 1995 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole