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The best selling "What is?" series of life concepts books for children promotes character education and positive social values. Widely reviewed, these titles offer parents and teachers interactive guides on the difficult questions and issues that children confront at various developmental stages. The following titles will be available in English and Spanish: What is Beautiful, What is Funny?, What is Right?, What is Love?, What is Death?, What is Money?, What is Peace?, What is God?

"Delightful books which try to address difficult issues in a straightforward manner, allowing for a child's questions and doubts."

-Washington Post

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What is Beautiful?
Item No: 2-BK
Provides children with ways to explore the underlying ideas of what constitutes true beauty. With issues of self-esteem and peer pressures inside and outside school, this book conveys a deeper understanding of inner values, as opposed to media hype. Encouraging a consideration on what makes a person truly beautiful...qualitites such as tolerance, generosity, bravery and peacefulness, this title is a useful tool in giving children a sense of identity and worth. Hardcover(8" x 10")

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What is Beautiful? - Soft Cover
Item No: 2-BKa
Provides children with ways to explore the underlying ideas of what constitutes true beauty. With issues of self-esteem and peer pressures inside and outside school, this book conveys a deeper understanding of inner values, as opposed to media hype. Encouraging a consideration on what makes a person truly beautiful...qualitites such as tolerance, generosity, bravery and peacefulness, this title is a useful tool in giving children a sense of identity and worth. (Soft Cover - 8" x 10")

What is Funny?
Item No: 3-BK
Addresses the subject of sensitivity and awareness in children's humor. Teasing, taunting and laughing at others lead to bullying and aggression. This title addresses a very important concern of today's educators in an amusing manner with serious subtext. Asking what is it that qualifies as being truly funny, the various subtleties of this basic human activity are investigated. Suggestions are made for the child to embrace compassion, understanding and acceptance as a response to some of the more perplexing daily social realities confronted. Hardcover (8" x 10")

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What is Funny? - Soft Cover
Item No: 3-BKa
Addresses the subject of sensitivity and awareness in children's humor. Teasing, taunting and laughing at others lead to bullying and aggression. This title addresses a very important concern of today's educators in an amusing manner with serious subtext. Asking what is it that qualifies as being truly funny, the various subtleties of this basic human activity are investigated. Suggestions are made for the child to embrace compassion, understanding and acceptance as a response to some of the more perplexing daily social realities confronted. Soft Cover (8" x 10"

What is Right?
Item No: 4-BK
helps children develop ethical thinking skills. This interactive title promotes the consideration of decisions and choices in various situations requiring integrity and wholesome social reasoning abilities. Exploring options for today's world of ambivalent morals and behavioral uncertainties, the need for examining and practicing principled assessments is directly addressed. Hardcover (8"x10")

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What is Right? - Soft Cover
Item No: 4-BKa
helps children develop ethical thinking skills. This interactive title promotes the consideration of decisions and choices in various situations requiring integrity and wholesome social reasoning abilities. Exploring options for today's world of ambivalent morals and behavioral uncertainties, the need for examining and practicing principled assessments is directly addressed. Soft Cover (8" x 10")

What is Love?
Item No: 5-BK
A way for children to discover how we all share many of the same needs and concerns in life, especially the need for love. This title communicates a message of multiculturalism and diversity as the means by which goals of understanding and tolerance may be reached. A sincere yet playful message for appreciating one of life's tenderest emotions through which children can ponder the total human experience of honest caring and brotherhood.

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What is Love? - Soft Cover
Item No: 5-BKa
A way for children to discover how we all share many of the same needs and concerns in life, especially the need for love. This title communicates a message of multiculturalism and diversity as the means by which goals of understanding and tolerance may be reached. A sincere yet playful message for appreciating one of life's tenderest emotions through which children can ponder the total human experience of honest caring and brotherhood. Soft Cover (8" x 10")

What is Money?
Item No: 6-BK
Opens up discussion on issues of financial responsibility, both practical and ethical. Encouraging children to learn more about and understand the true value of one of man's most intriguing inventions, What is Money? is a way to examine the history of money, as well as the realistic applications and moral questions associated with its use. With many questions and some gentle suggestions, What is Money? allows children to develop their own answers and facilitates their own analytical thinking in exploring this most basic and intrinsic mode of human exchange.

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What is Money? - Soft Cover
Item No: 6-BK
Opens up discussion on issues of financial responsibility, both practical and ethical. Encouraging children to learn more about and understand the true value of one of man's most intriguing inventions, What is Money? is a way to examine the history of money, as well as the realistic applications and moral questions associated with its use. With many questions and some gentle suggestions, What is Money? allows children to develop their own answers and facilitates their own analytical thinking in exploring this Soft Cover (8" x 10")

What is Peace?
Item No: 7-BK
Explores themes of non-violence and honest self-evaluation as to what makes us angry, distracted and not peaceful. With numerous openings in the text for discussions between children and adults, What is Peace? will help children cultivate the thinking required for peaceful actions. Developing the mindfulness needed to become aware of the agitations arising within ourselves and discovering how to navigate through our sometimes hostile environment, the young reader will be able to take a thoughtful and positive journey through the complex issues connected with Peace.

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What is Peace - Soft Cover
Item No: 7-BKa
Explores themes of non-violence and honest self-evaluation as to what makes us angry, distracted and not peaceful. With numerous openings in the text for discussions between children and adults, What is Peace? will help children cultivate the thinking required for peaceful actions. Developing the mindfulness needed to become aware of the agitations arising within ourselves and discovering how to navigate through our sometimes hostile environment, the young reader will be able to take a thoughtful and positive journey through the complex issues connected with Peace. Soft Cover (8" x 10")

What Is God?
Item No: 8-BK
An eloquent introduction to the ideas behind God and religion, and brings forward complex ideas in a way children will understand. It is written with a simple clarity and beautifully illustrated with just the right blend of seriousness and humor. "...a delightfully ecumenical book that answers questions straighforwardly and stresses the similarities of world religions in simple language" - The Washington Post

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What is God? - Soft Cover
Item No: 8-BKa
An eloquent introduction to the ideas behind God and religion, and brings forward complex ideas in a way children will understand. It is written with a simple clarity and beautifully illustrated with just the right blend of seriousness and humor. "...a delightfully ecumenical book that answers questions straighforwardly and stresses the similarities of world religions in simple language" Soft Cover (8" x 10")

What is Death?
Item No: 9-BK
Introduces children to the various concepts of death, grief and loss. Using a gentle and comforting tone with an honest, down-to-earth approach, the book addresses children's natural curiosity about one of life's greatest mysteries. Reflecting on themes of tolerance and understanding for various world customs and beliefs related to death and dying, children will receive a message of hope and encouragement to embrace life.

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