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 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 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 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.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The late, beloved Rachel Held Evans answers many children's first question about God in this gorgeous picture book, fully realized by her friend Matthew Paul Turner, the bestselling author of When God Made You.
Children who are introduced to God, through attending church or having loved ones who speak about God, often have a lot of questions, including this ever-popular one: What is God like? The late Rachel Held Evans loved the Bible and loved showing God's love through the words and pictures found in that ancient text. Through these pictures from the Bible, children see that God is like a shepherd, God is like a star, God is like a gardener, God is like the wind, and more. God is a comforter and support.
And whenever a child is unsure, What Is God Like? encourages young hearts to "think about what makes you feel safe, what makes you feel loved, and what makes you feel brave. That's what God is like."
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 Love? is the 2nd title in Etan Boritzer’s best selling What is? series of Life Concepts books on character education and social issues. What is Love? is 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 book communicates a message of multiculturalism and diversity as the means by which goals of understanding and tolerance can 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 good will.
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 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.
In this addition to the New York Times bestselling series, learn how incredible activists made the public aware of AIDS and spurred medical breakthroughs.
In the early 1980s, the first cases of a devastating and fatal new disease appeared, a disease that at first struck only gay men and was later identified as HIV/AIDS. It was the beginning of what became a worldwide health crisis that the US government ignored for years and that unfairly heightened prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community. To this day, the AIDS Crisis continues to disproportionately affect both the LGBTQ+ community and people of color. Nico Medina has written an accurate and affecting history of a terrible time, spotlighting the heroic efforts of AIDS activists who fought for medical research and new medicines, for proper health care for patients, and for compassionate recognition of people with AIDS.
