Peacefulness

Children's Literature - Susan Hepler

Each title in the useful "Character Education" series explains a quality as a virtue, discusses how it appears in the family, with friends, at school, or in the community, and presents a well-known figure who exemplifies that quality. Five or six sentences per page give the book a spacious look and multicultural faces appear in the photographs. Martin Luther King, Jr. demonstrates peacefulness in his civil rights leadership and a hands-on project has children cutting peaceful and angry stories from the newspaper to discuss how fighting could be peacefully resolved. Endmatter has "Words to Know" which reviews vocabulary, other information is suggested in a short bibliography and the listing of several websites. An index is also included.