Book cover for A Call to Character: Family Treasury of Stories, Poems, Plays, Proverbs, and Fables to Guide the Deve by Colin Greer

A Call to Character

Family Treasury of Stories, Poems, Plays, Proverbs, and Fables to Guide the Deve

Colin Greer
1997 Released
480 Pages
8-12 Hours
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Harper PerennialISBN 9780060927875
A Call to Character is a unique family reader that brings together a liberal assortment of voices from novels, short stories, plays and poetry -- both the well loved and the obscure -- to enrich and enliven a child's imagination. The unusual breadth of readings illustrates lives defined by hign standards of personal character, such as courage, honesty, fairness, responsibility, compassion, empathy, generosity and love.

Colin Greer

Dr. Colin Greer has been the President of the New World Foundation, a visionary progressive democracy organization, since 1985. He wrote briefing papers on philanthropy and government for First Lady, Mrs. Hillary Clinton, and on education policy for Senator Paul Wellstone. Nowadays, he is most well-known for his contributions to Parade Magazine, his book Choosing Equality: The Case for Democratic Schooling which won the American Library Association's Eli M. Oboler Intellectual Freedom Award, and his poetry.

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