What Is Beautiful?

by Etan Boritzer

What is Beautiful? is the fourth title in Etan Boritzer’s best selling “What is?” life concept series on character education and values. What is Beautiful? provides parents, educators and child life professionals with ways to begin an interactive dialogue with children on what constitutes real beauty. Confronting issues of self-esteem and the social peer pressures which lead children toward self-abuse and eating disorders, this book conveys a deeper understanding of inner values, as opposed to media hype. Encouraging a consideration of what makes a person truly beautiful—qualities such as generosity, bravery and peacefulness, What is Beautiful? will give children a deeper sense of true identity and self-worth.

Genres: Childrens

40 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2002

Reviews

[albin james · Rating 4 out of 5]

Né en 17 à Leidenstadt {Born in 1917 at Leidenstadt}

If I 'd been born in 1917 in Leidenstadt
On top of ruins, in a battlefield
Would I have behaved better of worse than those people
If I'd been German?

Born into humiliation, hatred and ignorance
Fed on dreams of revenge
Would I have been one of those unlikely beings with a conscience
Like some teardrops in the midst of a flood?

If I'd grown up in the docklands of Belfast
Soldier of a faith, of a class
Would I have had the strength to withstand and fight against my Own kind: to betray, to hold out a hand in friendship?

If I'd been born white and rich in Johannesburg
Between the power and the fear
Would I have heard the cries carried by the wind?
Nothing will be like it was before.

One never knows what one really has in one's guts,
Hidden behind our appearances
The soul of a brave man, an accomplice, an executioner?
The worst or the best?
Would we be one of those who resist or just those who follow like sheep
If it was a question of more than just words?

(Refrain)
If I 'd been born in 1917 in Leidenstadt
On top of ruins in a battlefield
Would I have behaved better of worse than those
If I'd been German?

- Jean-Jacques Goldman

[Halina Hetman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Книжка про красу, що фокусується на внутрішній, духовній красі, на красі поведінки та думок, що, на мій погляд, важливо для дітей. Ілюстрації не відповідають моїм естетичним вподобанням, але вокабуляр, який українською та англійською пропонує текст, досить глибокий та насичений, надихає на нові думки й допомагає при душевній розмові.

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

is good in fun i

[Etan Boritzer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a wonderful children's tale that delicately helps children to question modern-day stereotypes about how we judge beauty in others. The author explores inner beauty, self esteem, real values like being brave, or peaceful, or generous as what makes a person beautiful.

[Jenni Holland · Rating 5 out of 5]

The entire series on God, death, and love opens up discussion with your children.