About this title: Visiting a London nursery school, Vivian Paley observed the schoolchildren's reception of another visitor - a handicapped boy named Teddy, who was strapped into a wheelchair, wearing a helmet, and barely able to speak. A predicament arose, and the children's response offered Paley the purest evidence of kindness she had ever seen. Recounting similar stories of kindness by children, Paley's journey takes the reader into the different worlds of urban London, Chicago, Oakland and New York, and to a close-knit small town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Her own story connects those of children from ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780674503588ISBN:0674503589
Description: Good. Hardcover ex-library book with dust jacket in good condition. All usual stamps and markings. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780674503588ISBN:0674503589
Description: Very good. 1999; Hardcover; No notes/hiliting; Clean pages; No dog-ears; Strong binding; circular sticker on front of dustcover. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2000-10-02
ISBN-13:9780674003903ISBN:067400390X
Description: Good. Bookstore stamps. Some edge wear. In good reading condition. Free Tracking number with every domestic order. Shipping notification with all orders. Daily shipping! ! ! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780674503588ISBN:0674503589
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Clean and unmarked inside and out, tightly bound. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 129 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780674503588ISBN:0674503589
Description: New in new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 129 p. Audience: General/trade. Brand New-Gift Quality read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780674503588ISBN:0674503589
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Pages nice and clean, no markings. Dust Jacket has a little wear. Name on top page edges of book. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 129 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780674003903ISBN:067400390X
Description: New. Paley, a former kindergarten teacher and award-winning author, visited a London nursery school and witnessed the kindness that the children extended to a handicapped boy named Teddy. That story draws forth other tales of impulsive goodness from Paley... read more
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"I had read this before. Paley's thesis is to let children play. She links storytelling with creative dramatics to the humanizing of children. I struggled to see how I can connect this to my students, since we don't have time in the curriculum to write creative stories, and then enlist the class to act them out. One line made me sad: "Were we kinder in kindergarten?" Maybe.
I would love to translate this, and the creation of genuine empathy, to high school!"
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