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Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in the book of virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character and help adults teach them. Its the perfect combination of things to create memorizing sensory bottles for your little learners. From the bible to american history, from greek mythology to english poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions. It contains familiar childhood stories such as the fox and the crow.
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