Great Lessons in Virtue and Character

by Kilpatrick, William K.

• ISBN13: 9780801012433
• ISBN10: 0801012430
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Baker Pub Group

Summary

The popularity of books like William Bennett's The Book of Virtues is solid evidence that parents and educators are clamoring for reading material that teaches as well as entertains. William Kilpatrick's collection of beloved animal stories from the best of children's literature will appeal to readers because it gives, first of all, the pleasure of a good read. On a deeper level, it offers stories that illustrate and inspire strong moral character.Excerpts are taken from a variety of children's classics such as C. S. Lewis's The Horse and His Boy, Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins, and Rudyard Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Each section of the book illustrates one of nine virtues: courage, compassion, responsibility, loyalty, perseverance, self-sacrifice, self-discipline, honesty, and faith. An introduction to each section explains the virtue and how to develop it. Without being preachy, the stories demonstrate what it means to have-or not to have-the virtues they characterize.Endearing animal stories appeal to adults and children alike. These carefully c

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	11	(2)
Introduction	13	(6)
Courage
The Black Stallion	19	(6)
Walter Farley
The Horse and His Boy	25	(8)
C. S. Lewis
Call It Courage	33	(6)
Armstrong Sperry
Compassion
Beautiful Joe	39	(5)
Marshall Saunders
Anna Higgins
Black Beauty	44	(10)
Anna Sewell
Androcles and the Lion	54	(9)
Louis Untermeyer
Responsibility
All Alone	63	(8)
Claire Huchet Bishop
A Dog on Barkham Street	71	(9)
M. S. Stolz
Old Yeller	80	(8)
Fred Gipson
The Yearling	88	(9)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Glove and the Lions	97	(4)
Leigh Hunt
Loyalty
Zlateh the Goat	101	(6)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
A Secret for Two	107	(5)
Quentin Reynolds
``Rikki-Tikki-Tavi''	112	(17)
Rudyard Kipling
Perseverance
A Rare Provider	129	(8)
Carol Ryrie Brink
Island of the Blue Dolphins	137	(6)
Scott O'Dell
Lassie Come-Home	143	(18)
Eric Knight
Self-Sacrifice
Stone Fox	161	(5)
John Reynolds Gardiner
North to Freedom	166	(9)
Anne S. Holm
The Dog of Pompeii	175	(8)
Louis Untermeyer
Lad: A Dog	183	(12)
Albert Payson Terhune
Self-Discipline
The King and His Hawk	195	(3)
James Baldwin
Shiloh	198	(8)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Apprentice	206	(13)
Dorothy Canfield
Honesty
Little House in the Big Woods	219	(1)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Dog of Flanders	219	(8)
Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee)
Gun Shy	227	(18)
Edward Fenton
Faith
Ten and a Kid	245	(6)
Sadie Rose Weilerstein
So Dear to My Heart	251	(13)
Sterling North
Sounder	264	(4)
William H. Armstrong
Lead Not Forth, O Little Shepherd	268	(9)
Eric P. Kelly
Permission Acknowledgments	277