A Call to Character is a unique family reader that brings together a liberal assortment of voices from novels, short stories, plays and poetry -- both the well loved and the obscure -- to enrich and enliven a child's imagination. The unusual breadth of readings illustrates lives defined by hign standards of personal character, such as courage, honesty, fairness, responsibility, compassion, empathy, generosity and love.
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"Greer and Kohl callus to return to such values as courage, integrity, honesty, generosity, compassion, idealism, and love....It is these values that I hope my children and yours will internalize and live by." -- Marian Wright Edelman
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Colin Greer is president of the New World Foundation and a regular contributor to Parade magazine. He lives in New York City.
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This review is from: A Call to Character: Family Treasury of Stories, Poems, Plays, Proverbs, and Fables to Guide the Development of Values for You and Your Children (Paperback)
9/24/03 editors Greer and Kohl in taking from Courage(pg 15) to Love (Pg 411) and quotes from various source(s) on all conceivable character traits give a spontaneousness and charisma to characteristics that oft time appear to be "robotic"(e.g. 1.courage(Pg 15) :poet Shirley Kaufman "It's not what I wake up to but what I dream")or(e.g. 2. generosity (Pg 177): Eleanor Porter's Pollyanna "..of course you're glad to help Dr. Clinton;I should think being a doctor would be the gladdest business there was") or (e.g. 3:Compassion:"Our house has character,their's is rundown";"we are cautious,they are chicken";"our friend is the life of the party,their friend always makes a fool of himself after a few drinks"; "Our friend has written a book with a plot as light as a souffle,their friend has written a book with a flimsy plot".
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The selections in this section explore different aspects of courage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sausage skewer, hat ashes, crooked hat, dragon poison, straight hat, orange cheeks, pretty ball, genius child, more dragons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Poppins, Christopher Robin, Charles Wallace, Skin Horse, Tin Woodman, Uncle Henry, United States, Harriet Tubman, Little Bear, Sister Gabriel, The Dairymaid, Elizabeth Ann, Langston Hughes, Lookout Mountain, Mister Mansfield, Peter Pan, Uncle Mark, Hans Christian Andersen, Joe Hill, Snoo Foo, Yehuda Amichai, Aunt Carrie, Bon Soir, Boy Scout, Called Birdy New!
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The selections in this section explore different aspects of courage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sausage skewer, hat ashes, crooked hat, dragon poison, straight hat, orange cheeks, pretty ball, genius child, more dragons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Poppins, Christopher Robin, Charles Wallace, Skin Horse, Tin Woodman, Uncle Henry, United States, Harriet Tubman, Little Bear, Sister Gabriel, The Dairymaid, Elizabeth Ann, Langston Hughes, Lookout Mountain, Mister Mansfield, Peter Pan, Uncle Mark, Hans Christian Andersen, Joe Hill, Snoo Foo, Yehuda Amichai, Aunt Carrie, Bon Soir, Boy Scout, Called Birdy New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Mary Poppins by Dr. P. L. Travers on page 128, page 232, and Back Matter
- Mary Poppins (Odyssey Classics) by Dr. P. L. Travers on page 128, page 232, and Back Matter
- Twenty and Ten (Puffin Story Books) by Claire Huchet Bishop on page 383, and Back Matter
- Amos & Boris by William Steig on page 155, and Back Matter
- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren on page 119, and Back Matter
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- The Moral of the Story: Content, Process, and Reflection in Moral Education through Narratives by John H. Lockwood on 14 pages
- The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil by James Davison Hunter on 6 pages
- Falling upwards: essays in defense of the imagination by Lee Siegel on page 20, page 23, and page 24
- The Parenting Skills Treatment Planner (PracticePlanners) by Sarah Edison Knapp on page 59, and Back Matter
- Quotation Marks by Marjorie Garber on page 235, and Back Matter
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