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24 pp.
| Bridgestone |
January, 2000 |
LibraryISBN 0-7368-0506-0$$15.93
(4)
K-3Character Education series.
Each book comprises nine two-page "chapters" featuring a concise main paragraph and a full-page color photograph of kids exhibiting the virtue being discussed, plus a "Hands On" activity that reinforces that quality. The strengths of the series are its spare prose, civic-mindedness, and vivid, immediate images; its weakness is its sanctimonious tone, which might repel kids who learn lessons better from stories than from lectures. Bib., glos., ind.