The Children's Book of Virtues

Good selection of stories & illustrations. High quality construction. 5 year old enjoyed it & was able to understand the stories.

Beautiful book! The stories are virtue based. They are part of the classic literature adapted for children. Some stories are short poems and some are longer stories. The pictures are beautiful. This book is perfect for younger children when a parent reads to them and then later for children who can read on their own.With this book you can discuss virtues with your children. Under each virtue section, there are about 6 stories highlighting the virtue. Courage/Perseverance, Responsibility/Work/Self-Discipline, Compassion/Faith, Honesty/Loyalty/Frienship are the main virtues of this book.From the cover: this book is "an enduring treasury of literature and art that will help lead young minds toward what is noble and gentle and fine."I love this book and so do my children. A must have and must keep book!(Recommended for children 3 to 9, then move to the similar book, Book of Virtues for young people.)

Wonderful stories & lovely artwork to help little ones learn some life lessons. I purchased this for my daughter to read to my grandson. I wish they lived closer so I could read it to him. Very happy with my purchase.

I used this book to teach a Virtues & Etiquette course in a summer enrichment program for Grades 3-6. Excellent poems and stories that hold the students' interest; I would read one poem and story each class to highlight a particular virtue (e.g. kindness, courage, patience, perseverance), then have a discussion with the students about ways to show/act out the virtue. Students would write down 3 examples/ideas in class and perform one (with parents' permission) for homework, then write a report about what they did and the results. I'd call on 2 or 3 students to read their reports aloud the next class and briefly discuss. It was the perfect book to use! This would also be an excellent book for parents to read aloud to their children, as raising children with a moral code - regardless of culture or religion (or lack thereof) - is sorely needed in our society today.

My children and I just adore this book. What a lovely collection of stories all heavily demonstrating solid virtues that are Biblically rooted, not worldly. My children, ages 5 and 4, request that several stories be read time and time again. This book will grow with us through the years; they are no where near growing out of it.Bennett compiles the stories and poems in 4 categories: courage/perseverance, responsibility/work/self-discipline, compassion/faith, and honesty/loyalty/friendship. There is a nice selection in each category of 1 paged poems, to several paged stories. There is a solid virtue to be taken from every single work.I recommend this book highly. Fill those little minds with things that are good, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable. Also recommended by the same author are The Children's Book of Faith and The Children's Book of Heroes. Both also have wonderful collections and wonderful illustrations.

We got this book for our 7 yr old granddaughter for Christmas. She lives to read the stories to us. Beautiful illustrations

I'm a big fan of Bill Bennett and once again he's produced a gem (I know, it's several years old, but I just bought it).I have four children, the oldest being about 4½ years old. Both he and our 3 year old son love to "read" books; they insist on going to bed with them every night and they often stay up later than they're allowed to, flipping through the pages. Unfortunately there aren't many stories in this book that hold their attention, and the ones that do seem to be over too quickly. My personal opinion is that this book is probably more suited for girls of 4+, and boys of 5+.The book is a very nice quality and the illustrations (every page) are marvelous. The stories are grouped by virtue, but each one is independent of the next, so there are many different ways to navigate this book. I would suggest this book for anyone with young children.Physically, this book has a large footprint (from memory, it's probably 12" wide and 14" tall).

I have been looking for a great collection of stories that convey important values for quite some time. I had not been able to find anything good enough (or easy enough) for my 5 year old son to find interesting...until now.The Children's Book of Virtues is a compilation of short stories and poems, many of which I remember from my youth. The book is well organized, with stories/poems grouped by the virtue they represent (courage, perserverence, etc.). So if I want my son to think about a particular virtue, maybe due to what happened that day, I can easily find an appropriate story in this book.The illustrations are also so well done. They are colorful and expressive, catching my son's attention as I read to him.Thank you for this book. I hope additional volumes may be developed.