A Call to Character: A Family Treasury of Stories, Poems, Plays, Proverbs, and Fables to Guide the Development of Values for You and Your Children

A Varied Collection Of Readings With Selections From Novels And Short Stories To Plays And Poetry. Pt 1. Values That Relate To One's Self (courage, Self-discipline, Integrity, Creativity, And Playfulness) : Courage. The Story Of My Life / Helen Keller -- From The Last Of The Dragons. The Deliverers Of Their Country / E. Nesbit -- From Frog And Toad Together. Dragons And Giants / Arnold Lobel -- From Charlotte's Web. Wilbur's Escape / E.b. White -- Proverbs -- The Underground Railroad / Arnold Gragson -- Unlearning To Not Speak / Marge Piercy -- Fifth Chinese Daughter / Jade Snow Wong -- A Wrinkle In Time / Madeleine L'engle. Pt 1. Values That Relate To One's Self (courage, Self-discipline, Integrity, Creativity, And Playfulness) : Self-discipline. From My Left Foot. The Letter 'a' / Christy Brown -- Mother To Son / Langston Hughes -- The Man Who Planted Trees / Jean Giono -- Understood Betsy / Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Running As A Spiritual Experience / Mike Spino -- Some Advice To Those Who Will Serve Time In Prison / Nazim Hikmet -- West With The Night / Beryl Markham -- Harriet Tubman Is In My Blood / Mariline Wilkins. Pt 1. Values That Relate To One's Self (courage, Self-discipline, Integrity, Creativity, And Playfulness) : Integrity. Simple Gifts / Shaker Hymn -- Eleven / Sandra Cisneros -- The Head Man : A Fable / Mark Vecchoise -- The World Is Round / Gertrude Stein -- Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave / Frederick Douglass -- Half The People In The World / Yehuda Amichai -- Tony Went To The Bodega But He Didn't Buy Anything / Martín Espada -- Indian Boarding School : The Runaways / Louise Erdrich -- Just Like Martin / Ossie Davis -- King Lear / William Shakespeare -- Mam's Gone / Liza Rymer -- The Censors / Luisa Valenzuela -- The Republic Of Conscience / Seamus Heaney. Pt 1. Values That Relate To One's Self (courage, Self-discipline, Integrity, Creativity, And Playfulness) : Creativity. The Secret / Denise Levertov -- Fathers / Richard P. Feynman -- Metalogue : How Much Do You Know? / Gregory Bateson -- The Lost Prince / Frances Hodgson Burnett -- The Boy Who Drew Cats / Colin Greer -- You'd Better Believe Him : A Fable / Brian Patten -- Alice In Wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- The Genius Child / Langston Hughes -- Midnight Hour Encores / Bruce Brooks -- Everyone Sang / Siegfried Sassoon -- Daybreak In Alabama / Langston Hughes -- In My Craft Or Sullen Art / Dylan Thomas -- Frederick / Leo Linonni -- From Angelitos Negros : A Salsa Ballet. Prologue / Miguel Algarín -- From The Pleasantries Of The Incredible Mulla Nasrudin. Dry In The Rain / Idries Shah -- The Last Of The Dragons / E. Nesbit -- From Owl At Home. Tear-water Tea / Arnold Lobel -- Six Degrees Of Separation / John Guare. Pt 1. Values That Relate To One's Self (courage, Self-discipline, Integrity, Creativity, And Playfulness) : Playfulness. Pippi Longstocking / Astrid Lindgren -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Listening To The Music Of Arsenio Rodriguez Is Moving Closer To Knowledge / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- The Sword Of Wood / Doug Lipman -- Mary Poppins / P.l. Travers -- The Laughter / Heinrich Böll -- Lame Deer's Vision / John Fire/lame Deer, Richard Erdoes -- How The Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo / Carl Sandburg -- Metalogue : About Games And Being Serious / Gregory Bateson -- Alice In Wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- Peter Pan / James M. Barrie. Pt 2. Values That Relate To People One Knows (loyalty, Generosity, Empathy, Honesty, And Adaptability) : Loyalty. A Little Princess / Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Grandma's Cherries / Geoffrey Canada -- Ramona Quimby, Age 8 / Beverly Cleary -- Pinocchio / Carlo Collodi -- My Mother's Mother / Annette Kennerly -- The Last Day Of A Condemned Man / Victor Hugo -- Man'yoshu / Yamanoue Okura -- Death Of A Salesman / Arthur Miller -- The Return Of The Indian / Lynne Reid Banks -- Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë -- My Children! My Africa! / Athol Fugard -- Complicity / Denise Levertov -- Joe Hill / Alfred Hayes -- The New Colossus / Emma Lazarus. Pt 2. Values That Relate To People One Knows (loyalty, Generosity, Empathy, Honesty, And Adaptability) : Generosity. Pollyanna / Eleanor Porter -- Heidi / Johanna Spyri -- The House At Pooh Corner / A.a. Milne -- Little Women / Louisa May Alcott -- From Native American Proverbs. Soul Would Have No Rainbow If The Eyes Had No Tears / Guy A. Zona -- From Proverbs Of Africa. The House Of The Heart Is Never Full / Guy A. Zona -- From When We Were Very Young. The King's Breakfast / A.a. Milne -- The Autobiography Of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- The Trumpet Of The Swan / E.b. White -- The Gift Of The Magi / O. Henry -- The Builders / Sara Henderson Hay -- The Endless Steppe / Esther Hautzig -- Ann Of Avonlea / L.m. Montgomery -- A Day No Pigs Would Die / Robert Newton Peck. Pt 2. Values That Relate To People One Knows (loyalty, Generosity, Empathy, Honesty, And Adaptability) : Empathy. The Grateful Sparrow / Anonymous -- One More River / Lynne Reid Banks -- Flowers And Freckle Cream / Elizabeth Ellis -- The Wizard Of Oz / L. Frank Baum -- Canisy / Jean Follain -- Rainbow Valley / L.m. Montgomery -- The Pioneers / James Fenimore Cooper -- Orange Cheeks / Jay O'callahan -- Mary Poppins / P.l. Travers. Pt 2. Values That Relate To People One Knows (loyalty, Generosity, Empathy, Honesty, And Adaptability) : Honesty. Fathers / Alice Walker -- Pinocchio / Carlo Collodi -- From Giving Birth To Thunder, Sleeping With His Daughter. Coyote And The Skunk Kill Game / Barry Lopez -- The Emperor's New Clothes / Hans Christian Andersen -- Shooting An Elephant / George Orwell -- The Constitution Of The United States : Article I, Section 2 -- The Slaves Speak -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- The Constitution Of The The United Sates, Amendment Xiii -- Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens. Pt 2. Values That Relate To People One Knows (loyalty, Generosity, Empathy, Honesty, And Adaptability) : Adaptability. Sky Diving / Ishmael Reed -- All Things Bright And Beautiful / James Herriot -- The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe / C.s. Lewis -- Now That The Water Presses Hard / Yehuda Amichai -- Catherine, Called Birdy / Katherine Cushman -- Understood Betsy / Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- The Wizard Of Oz / L. Frank Baum -- The Lion And The Boar / Aesop -- The Scotty Who Knew Too Much / James Thurber -- Izzy, Willy-nilly / Cynthia Voigt -- Jaguarandi / Virginia Hamilton -- Catherine, Called Birdy / Katherine Cushman -- Katori Maru, October 1920 / James Masao Mitsui. Pt 3. Values That Relate To People One Doesn't Know And Nature (idealism, Compassion, Responsibility, Balance, And Fairness) : Idealism. I Hear It Was Charged Against Me / Walt Whitman -- Tell All The Truth / Emily Dickinson -- Peter Pan / James M. Barrie -- John Henry / Julius Lester -- The Candle / Hans Christian Andersen -- Listen For The Singing / Jean Little -- The Diary Of Anne Frank / Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett -- Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison -- Gospel Of Mark, 5 -- My Philosophy / Albert Einstein -- Antigone / Jean Anouilh -- For Poets / Al Young -- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / James Agee -- Lincoln's Famous Beard / Lucille And Bren Breneman. Pt 3. Values That Relate To People One Doesn't Know And Nature (idealism, Compassion, Responsibility, Balance, And Fairness) : Compassion. A Bargain For Frances / Russell Hoban -- Psalm 133 -- From A Life Of Poetry. The Courage Of Plants-- / Yehuda Amichai -- [untitled] / Anonymous -- [untitled] / Basho -- From The Way Of Life. A Sound Man's Heart-- / Lao Tzu -- Among The Tribes-- / Mary Kay Boyd -- Book Of Songs / Traditional Japanese -- Smith / Leon Garfield -- Promised Land / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Hunger / Si Kahn -- A Raisin In The Sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- Ojibway Prayer -- The Hundred Dresses / Eleanor Estes -- The Wisdom Of The Jewish Sages -- Black Beauty / Anna Sewell -- Birmingham, 1963 / Raymond R. Patterson -- I Have Words To Spend / Robert Cormier -- Pig Earth / John Berger -- In Memory Of Our Cat, Ralph / Garrison Keillor. Pt 3. Values That Relate To People One Doesn't Know And Nature (idealism, Compassion, Responsibility, Balance, And Fairness) : Responsibility. Fable / Anonymous -- The Growing / Mongane Wally Serote -- My Friend Flicka / Mary O'hara -- Just Above My Head / James Baldwin -- To All My Wars-- / Yehuda Amichai -- Isabel / Ogden Nash -- Strong Men, Riding Horses / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Not Coming Too Late / Abraham Joshua Heschel -- I Cannot Predict / E.f. Schumacher -- Spoon River Anthology / Edgar Lee Masters -- From Local News. The School Plays / Gary Soto -- A Fairy Tale About God And Kings / Carl Ewald -- Gospel Of Luke, 15 -- How The Children Stopped The Wars / Jan Wahl -- Long Walk To Freedom / Nelson Mandela. Pt 3. Values That Relate To People One Doesn't Know And Nature (idealism, Compassion, Responsibility, Balance, And Fairness) : Balance. Allegiances / William Stafford -- From Elderberry Flute Song. Coyote, Coyote, Please Tell Me / Peter Blue Cloud/aroniawenrate -- Shawno / George Dennison -- The Human Cycle / Colin Turnbull -- The Frog And The Ox / Aesop -- Pictures Of The Gone World / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- A Childhood Story To Treasure / Ge Vue -- What I Have Lived For / Bertrand Russell -- The Immense Journey / Loren Eiseley -- Rascal / Sterling North -- The War Of The Bells / Gianni Rodari -- The Acorn People / Ron Jones -- The Story Of The Hungry Elephant / Karen Kennerly -- Miss Rumphius / Barbara Cooney. Pt 3. Values That Relate To People One Doesn't Know And Nature (idealism, Compassion, Responsibility, Balance, And Fairness) : Fairness. The Ten Principles (abbreviated) From The United Nations' Declaration Of The Rights Of The Child, 1959 -- The Jacket / Gary Soto -- The Way Of Life / Lao Tzu -- Birds, Beasts, And Bat / Leonard Jenkin -- Twenty And Ten / Claire Huchet Bishop -- The Grapes Of Wrath / John Steinbeck -- Race Politics / Luis J. Rodríguez -- Ourika / Claire De Duras -- Farewell To Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston -- Poem / Muriel Rukeyser -- Psalm 15 -- I Have A Dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. Pt 4. Values That Relate To Love. The Velveteen Rabbit / Margery Williams -- The Magic Locket / Elizabeth Koda-callan -- Love After Love / Derek Walcott -- Letters From A Man In Solitary / Nazim Hikmet -- Splendor / Lois Lowry -- First Memory / Louise Glück -- More Adventures Of The Great Brain / John D. Fitzgerald -- The Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man-in-the-moon Marigolds / Paul Zindel -- A Tree Within / Octavio Paz -- Behold, My Brothers / Sitting Bull -- The Hunchback Of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo -- Song For A Banjo Dance / Langston Hughes -- Barter / Sara Teasdale -- The Glove And The Lions / Leigh Hunt -- The Wisdom Of The Jewish Sages -- The Little Prince / Antoine De Saint-exupéry -- A Wrinkle In Time / Madeleine L'engle -- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley -- The Patched Pants / Bruno Schönlank. Colin Greer And Herbert Kohl. Includes Index.