What is Death? is the 3rd title in Etan Boritzer’s best selling What is? series of Life Concepts books on character education and social issues. What is Death? addresses children’s natural curiosity about this difficult subject. Introducing the concept of death with examples of customs and beliefs from different religions and cultures, the book also allows the reader to reflect on themes of tolerance, identity and generosity. Reality-based and using a gentle and comforting tone, What Is Death? takes an honest approach and encourages children to embrace the positive in life. In its 5th edition, this book has become a standard part of many grief and loss therapist’s professional resources.
What is a Friend? is the 10th title in Etan Boritzer’s best selling children’s books series on character education and social values. In this book Etan explores the themes of co-operative and supportive behavior between individuals, as well as what sometimes goes wrong in our relationships with one another. With numerous openings in the text for discussion, What is a Friend? will help children cultivate the critical thinking required for understanding the complex dynamics of personal interactions. With delightful color illustrations by Jeff Vernon, this book will become an important part of any child’s library, and a valuable resource for parents, educators and child life professionals.
What is Dreaming? is Etan Boritzer’s 9th title in the best selling What is? book series on Life Concepts on character education and social issues. Children’s dreams are a mysterious and sometimes frightening subject. Dreams can be informative in dealing with everyday problems. What is Dreaming? will help to open discussion on children’s dreams and to unravel some of the subconscious concerns which children confront in their dreams, both scary and fun dreams. Parents, educators and child life professionals will find What is Dreaming? to be a valuable resource in dealing with children’s dreams. Author Boritzer’s clear and straightforward explanations plus the delightful and playful color illustrations of Jeff Vernon will make this book an important part of any library.
What Is Beautiful? is the 4th title in Etan Boritzer’s best selling What is? series of Life Concepts books on character education and social issues. What is Beautiful? explores the underlying ideas of what constitutes true beauty in a person. Parents and teachers will welcome the book’s message of genuine self-esteem as the antidote to peer pressures inside and outside school. Etan Boritzer conveys a deep understanding of inner values to children as opposed to media and social hypes. The book is a useful tool that encourages our children to consider inner values, what makes a person truly beautiful—qualities such as tolerance, generosity, bravery and peacefulness—and thereby helps to give the reader a sense of real identity and inner worth.
What is a Family? is the 12th title in Etan Boritzer’s best selling children’s book series on character education and difficult topics. The author uses his well-known style to ask young readers serious questions that sharpen their critical thinking skills and lead to real understanding of complex issues. What is a Family? tackles difficult questions regarding the fast-changing face of contemporary families. Values of an ideal family and the problems that occur in real families are all open for discussion.
What is Right? is the 6th title in Etan Boritzer’s best selling series of children’s books on character education and values. What is Right? helps children develop critical thinking skills on the difficult subjects of ethics and integrity. Author Boritzer does not take a teaching approach. He presents children and adults with an opportunity to dialogue together in considering decisions and choices involving various situations which require wholesome social reasoning abilities. Exploring options for today’s world of ambivalent and sometimes confusing moral and social behaviors, What is Right? addresses the need for children, parents and educators to examine and start practicing principled assessments.
What is God? is the first title in Etan Boritzer's best selling What is? series of Life Concepts books on character education and social issues. What is God? is an introduction to the comparative study of major world's religions. Author Boritzer explores the different teachers and books available for trying to answer one of "the biggest question of all" in a way that teaches respect and acceptance for the diversity and the similarities of views on this difficult topic.
What is Funny? is the 5th title in Etan Boritzer's best selling What is? series of Life Concepts books on character education and social issues. What is Funny? book addresses the subject of sensitivity and awareness in humor. Laughing at others or laughing at oneself, or laughing for no particular reason at all, author Etan Boritzer approaches the various subtleties of this basic human activity asking what is appropriate and what is hurtful, while tackling issues of taunting and teasing, bullying and aggression-issues that are very much in the focus of our nation's schools today. Suggesting a gentle and conscious, multicultural message of compassion, understanding and acceptance, this book helps children, parents, educators and child professionals explore a subject too often easily glossed over.
What is Money? is Etan Boritzer's 8th title in the best selling What is? book series on Life Concepts on character education and social issues. What is Money? opens up discussion for children on issues of financial responsibility, both practical and ethical. Encouraging children to learn 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, the author attempts to let children develop their own answers and facilitate their own analytical thinking in exploring this most basic and intrinsic mode of human exchange.
What is Peace? is the 7th title in Etan Boritzer's best selling What is? series of Life Concepts books on character education and social issues. What is Peace? explores themes of non-violence and diversity helping kids, parents and teachers to discuss and cultivate the critical thinking required for peaceful actions. Young readers will be able to take a thoughtful and positive journey through the complex issues connected with the personal responsibilities inherent to peace. What is Peace? gently teaches the true essence and workings of peace.
What is True? is the 11th title in Etan Boritzer's best selling children's book series on character education and difficult topics. In this book, Author Boritzer explores how we can try to discern between facts and appearances in our world. Children are asked to carefully consider their actions and thoughts based on various types of inquiry and evaluation. What is True? provides both the child and adult reader numerous openings for discussion in order that children may cultivate the critical thinking required to travel through an increasingly complex world.
What is a Feeling? is the 13th title in Etan Boritzer's best selling children's book series on character education and difficult topics. What is a Feeling? examines how we can understand feelings and where they come from, while at the same time learning the best ways to express our feelings without hurting ourselves and others. The importance of emotional awareness and intelligence is stressed so that children have guides for allowing safe and creative expression of their feelings.
