A Call to Character: Family Treasury of Stories, Poems, Plays, Proverbs, and Fables to Guide the Deve

"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.

"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 EdelmanA

"Wonderful....A 450-page collection of 217 stories, fables, and poems using the best of children's literature...Their hope is to bring hildren and families together and they succeed fully. Highly recommended." "--Library Journal"