Responsibility

Lucia Raatma

Book - 2009

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Published
Ann Arbor, Mich. : Cherry Lake Pub c2009.
Language
English
Main Author
Lucia Raatma (-)
Physical Description
24 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 23) and index.
ISBN
9781602793217
  • What is responsibility?
  • Being responsible
  • Being responsible in your community.
Review by School Library Journal Review

Gr 2-4-Written with clarity, these slender volumes all begin by defining their specific topics and then offer many concrete examples of children exhibiting the featured behavioral characteristic on a personal level and then within the context of a wider population. Bullying describes how bullies hurt others and ways to stop them, but this book is more limited than Addy Ferguson's Are You a Bully?, which includes reasons people might behave as bullies. Citizenship examines good citizenship but does not distinguish between a native-born citizen and a naturalized citizen, as Leslie Harper does in What Is Citizenship? (both Rosen, 2013). Respect details how children can show respect; however, Cynthia A. Klingel's Respect (The Child's World, 2008) goes further by organizing ways of respecting into precise categories. Responsibility discusses individual as well as community responsibility, while Sportsmanship, in comparison to Kelly Doudna's Play Fair! (ABDO, 2007), is targeted to an older primary level audience. Consistent in layout, Raatma's books all have large, captioned color photos of active children. These photos, paired one per page opposite the dry narratives, showcase other examples of the character traits not always mentioned in the corresponding texts. Related questions and recommended activities invite children's responses to the material. These titles offer acceptable basic material for primary-level character-education lessons and provide educators with specific applicable questions and activities to augment them.-Lynn Vanca, Freelance Librarian, Akron, OH (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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