The Adventures of Mali & Keela: A Virtues Book for Children

by Jonathan Collins, Jenny Cooper (Illustrator), Janice Healey (Contributor)

Mom's Choice Award Gold Recipient
 
The Adventures of Mali & Keela is an award-winning book of adventure stories to introduce children to virtues. These engaging stories for 3 to 7 year olds help children understand 52 virtues, including kindness, compassion, integrity, courage, respect, patience, honesty, and more. Virtues are brought to life in lively, entertaining adventure stories designed to be read aloud to young listeners. Each tale is followed by clear, age-appropriate definitions of the virtues for the adult reader and the young audience to explore. Discussion questions are also provided to draw the children into a conversation, helping them to put each virtue into context within their own experience—while young and old enjoy the thrill of a well-told yarn.

Genres: Childrens

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Tim Sormin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful stories that the kids love. Good kind characters embodying admirable virtues. Great opportunities to discuss either during or after the story and to relate it to our own personal experiences. We've read every story at least once, but each story illustrates at least four virtues so you can re-read over and over again and continue to get more out of it. I would give 4.5 stars just because some definitions for the virtues are too similar and can lead to easily mixing up and confusing different virtues. I found that I could just paraphrase or expand on the definitions given to try to make them more clear without much problem.

[Christine Yunn-Yu Sun · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book of high educational values. Unusual as a children's book because illustrations are done by pencil instead of glossy colours, yet they are wonderfully admirable. The writing is very natural, about two young kids and their innocence in the process of growing up. Not so much interested in the Qs and As between parents and children, but can see the point of their design. It is a great book to read together with kids - adventures!