Synopsis
Explains the virtue of determination and describes ways to show it in the home, school, and community.
Wendy Glenn - Children's Literature
Part of the "Character Education" series, this text helps to define and encourage determination as an admirable character trait. It addresses determination in several contexts and settings, including at home, with friends, at school, and at play. It also features Walt Disney as a model of what can be achieved when one is determined to meet a goal. Color photographs on every other page accompany the text and show children modeling different kinds of determination, from learning to swim to caring for a pet to learning to add and subtract to beginning a stamp collection. The text also contains a hands-on section that provides an activity that young readers are encouraged to attempt as they develop determination in their own lives. In this case, the goal is to read a new book each week. Readers are given suggestions about what they might need and do to accomplish this goal. Suggestions for further reading, related Internet resources, and an index are included as well. Easy to read and visually appealing, the text meets its goal of helping kids reflect on the kind of people they would like to be. 2003, Capstone Press,
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Children's Literature
Part of the "Character Education" series, this text helps to define and encourage determination as an admirable character trait. It addresses determination in several contexts and settings, including at home, with friends, at school, and at play. It also features Walt Disney as a model of what can be achieved when one is determined to meet a goal. Color photographs on every other page accompany the text and show children modeling different kinds of determination, from learning to swim to caring for a pet to learning to add and subtract to beginning a stamp collection. The text also contains a hands-on section that provides an activity that young readers are encouraged to attempt as they develop determination in their own lives. In this case, the goal is to read a new book each week. Readers are given suggestions about what they might need and do to accomplish this goal. Suggestions for further reading, related Internet resources, and an index are included as well. Easy to read and visually appealing, the text meets its goal of helping kids reflect on the kind of people they would like to be. 2003, Capstone Press,— Wendy Glenn