Treasured Wisdom: Celebrate! Wise Words

by Sophia Day, Megan Johnson, Stephanie Strouse (Illustrations)

Whether they live near or far, grandparents share a special role?in imparting legacy, culture, and wisdom. Make special memories, learn proverbs of wisdom from various cultures, and apply them to real-life situations. Rhythmic story-telling is a fun way to learn, enjoy, and respect your elders. Helpful teaching tips provide ways to take the information of the book one step further by incorporating grandparents or "adopting" grandparents into your child's life and suggestions for celebrating Grandparents Day. This book features a range of children, including children with Cerebral palsy. Diversity is shown in positive ways with characters that span various cultures, ethnicities, family situations, physical challenges and more. Readers of all backgrounds will see themselves in these pages while learning to value the diversity within their own community and being exposed to differences from around the world. About the Celebrate! Paperback series Celebrate everyday moments of childhood with MVP Kids paperbacks books for children ages 4-8. Sophia Day interacts with children through memorable verse and inviting illustrations. Topics include appreciating diversity, building self-esteem, learning wisdom from grandparents to learning number sense. Young children follow the MVP Kids as they learn important life lessons. Helpful Teaching Tips sections are included in each book to equip and guide you toward a deeper understanding of each subject. Join the MVP Kids and celebrate growing up! About MVP Kids Families with a diverse range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds drive the inspiration for child education and social emotional learning. MVP Kids enables real-world kids to address the challenges in their lives through story-based character lessons where the kids interact at school, in social situations, and in their communities. MVP Kids board books enrich preschool readers while hardcovers and paperbacks focus on school-aged children. Each MVP Kids book includes extensive coaching information for parents and educators that promotes character education, wise decision-making skills, and social and emotional learning.

36 pages, Paperback

Published May 7, 2019

Reviews

[Tonja Drecker · Rating 4 out of 5]

In a lovely dedication to the older people in young listeners' lives, this book weaves with respect, words of wisdom and illustrates how precious connections with elders can be.

Each page brings along a new message, opening up to an array of talking points. And that's what this book is about—getting kids to discuss and discover more about their relationships with the more elderly generation. With warmth and love, wonderful moments kids have with their grandparents are introduced. Some young readers will easily identify with. But even for those situations which aren't as close, the idea is still clear. Grandparents and elders offer more than loving comfort, they have words of wisdom too.

The rhymes flow relatively well, and while some vocabulary might be a bit difficult, it's about learning and discovering. Each rhyme flows with a colorful illustration to help make the situations clear, and are sure to open up thoughts, questions and memories. The questions down in the corner of the pages offer the perfect prompts.

This is a great book for caretakers and parents. I received a complimentary copy and enjoyed the poetry and thoughts enough to want to leave my honest opinion.