The Book of Virtues for Boys and Girls: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

By William J. Bennett

Book Overview

Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. All of these qualities come together in an exciting collection of fables, folktales, and poems for kids. A book the whole family can enjoy.

This exciting collection of fables, folktales, and poems, collected by William J. Bennett, illustrates some of the best human values: courage, honesty, work, friendship, and loyalty.

With writings by great authors--among them Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Anne Frank, Horatio Alger, Helen Keller, and Aesop--these works, some old and some new, will always have great meaning for young people as they make their way through life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416971254
• ISBN13: 9781416971252
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

This review is not for the book itself.

I never actually received the childrens version. Instead I received the very thick adult version titled “ book of virtues”. I’d heed caution ordering this title here- they have them grouped as the same. Still dont have the correct book I purchased for my four year old who has years and years before he can read or acquire gain from the adult version

Read this with your children

This book is a wonderful resource to read with your children. You will enrich their lives and they will be grateful to you all of their adult lives.

Granddaughter therapy.

This was a Christmas gift to a fourteen year old grand daughter. When I signed the book to her I wrote "don't let the title put you off. The stories are wonderful." At last contact she was halfway thru the book and loved the stories. If nothing else it will give her another resource for decisions.

Great Stories

This book is great for kids 9 and over. I got for my son who is 8 and for his school reading he likes to read those stories. Though he likes to hear the same stories from the younger kids version of the same book when I read to his brother.

A treasure chest of wonderful stories.

A book of encouraging stories and poems for our young generation to teach them everything from self-discipline, responsibility, honesty, loyalty etc. Read when George Washington was 14 year's old he wrote 110 best ways to act around people, he called it the "Rules of Civility". Read Walt Whitman's ode to Abe Lincoln, and my favourite by Frank Crane, entittled "Boy Wanted". Though the tittle of this book refers "for Young People" I think adults can without a doubt learn as well. I certainly have and I am in my fifth decade of my life.