Manners Can Be Fun

By Munro Leaf

Book Overview

Through stick figure drawings and a brief text, beloved and bestselling children's author, Munro Leaf explains why good manners are important. Kirkus believes Manners Can Be Fun to be the author's "best, both in idea and execution. Manners books are perennials--hardy ones at that--and this makes first steps in etiquette easy and fun." The children's classic begins: "Having good manners is really just living with other people pleasantly." This pleasant book will explain to children why good conduct is essential in the household, on the playground, and beyond. Munro Leaf is best known for How to Behave and Why and The Story of Ferdinand , which was an overnight international sensation upon its release in 1936.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789310619
• ISBN13: 9780789310613
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Rizzoli Universe
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Munro Leaf Where Are You When We Need You?

Oh joy! I have searched for this book and here it is again, back in print. I broke the record for checking it out of the Mission Hills, San Diego library as a child. It worked. 50 years after reading it, I'm one of the politest people I know!

great book but you will have to scale down for toddlers

munro leaf's books in this series are excellent but before i bought it i checked it out at the library and i am glad i did. the concept is great but even for my 3 yr old daughter who will sit still for a book with great patience, she was losing interest. So i am just reviewing to share with others that you may have to shorten it as you read it to toddlers but it is a terrific series and would be perfect for children age 4 and up.

Manners CAN be fun (and funny!)

Oh, how I have missed this book. My grandmother passed my mother's edition on to me when I was little, and its illustrations and funny stories have stayed with me all this time. I was heartbroken when I lost it, but as I didn't know the title or the author, I wasn't able to find it anywhere. This reprint has made me SO happy!

Excellent and poignant look at how kids can learn manners.

Mr. Leaf's book was one of the cornerstones of our household, and my brother and I were constantly instructed to "sit down and read the manner's book." This book is very easy for children to comprehend, and it is an excelent way for parents to get their kids to a more "civil" state. I still love this book!

The only antidote to psychobabble

Lost in a sea of new-age mumblings, half-congealed PC semi-truths and "value-neutral" nonsense? Then, if you never do anything else for your kids, find a copy of this and Leaf's other gems and use them as often as you use the TV's remote control. They're full of the no-nonsense, boiled down "rules to live by" that so well defined the simpler ages gone by. To agree with another reviewer, this and the others probably would be banned today. But, when you consider who it is that bans books along with what's acceptable and what isn't by today's standards, it might be time to resurrect ol' Munro and let him have another go at our kids. Until somebody with the wisdom and resource to do that comes along and does, a well-used copy suits me just fine, thank you.