Free To Be...you And Me (The Original Classic Edition)

by Thomas, Marlo

• ISBN13: 9780762413065
• ISBN10: 0762413069
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-11
• Publisher: Running Press Adult

Summary

We're proud to re-issue this beloved 1974 children's classic. It's the original, innovative book that celebrates diversity, challenges stereotypes, and encourages kids to be themselves in a joyful, positive manner, through a collection of songs, poems, and stories to be read aloud and shared with new generations.

Author Biography

Marlo Thomas is an award-winning actress who burst onto the Hollywood scene and gained acclaim for her role as Ann Marie on That Girl, a part for which she earned a Golden Globe® and four Emmy® nominations. Thomas is also known for her numerous publications and recordings. She conceived the New York Times bestselling book Free to Be . . . You and Me, which inspired a CD recording (to which she contributed her vocal talents) and a stage show. More recently, she published Thanks & Giving Book and CD, The Right Words at the Right Time, and The Right Words at the Right Time Volume 2: Your Turn! She and her husband, talk-show host Phil Donahue, reside in New York City. Please visit her at www.marlo-thomas.com.

Table of Contents

This is The Foreword	7	(4)
Marlo Thomas
What Buying This Book Will Do	11	(1)
Gloria Steinem
A Note to Parents and Other Grown-Up Friends	12	(4)
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Free to Be...You and Me	16	(8)
Stephen Lawrence
Bruce Hart
Boy Meets Girl	24	(8)
Peter Stone
Carl Reiner
When We Grow Up	32	(6)
Stephen Lawrence
Shelley Miller
What Are Little Boys Made Of?	38	(1)
Elaine Laron
Ladies First	39	(7)
Shel Silverstein
Mary Rodgers
Don't Dress Your Cat in an Apron	46	(2)
Dan Greenburg
Parents Are People	48	(6)
Carol Hall
Housework	54	(6)
Sheldon Harnick
Helping	60	(2)
Shel Silverstein
The Pain and The Great One	62	(6)
Judy Blume
Sisters and Brothers	68	(3)
Stephen Lawrence
Bruce Hart
The Southpaw	71	(5)
Judith Viorst
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe	76	(2)
Joyce Johnson
William's Doll based on a book	78	(8)
Charlotte Zolotow
Mary Rodgers
Sheldon Harnick
My Dog Is a Plumber	86	(2)
Dan Greenburg
Dudley Pippin and the Principal	88	(2)
Phil Ressner
It's All Right to Cry	90	(6)
Carol Hall
The Field	96	(4)
Anne Roiphe
How I Crossed the Street for the First Time All By Myself	100	(12)
Herb Gardner
No One Else	112	(2)
Elaine Laron
Three Wishes	114	(5)
Lucille Clifton
Glad To Have a Friend Like You	119	(5)
Carol Hall
Zachary's Divorce	124	(4)
Linda Sitea
Atalanta	128	(8)
Betty Miles
The Sun and the Moon	136	(3)
Elaine Laron
Afterword	139	(1)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Contributors to Free to Be...You and Me	140