Somewhere Today: A Book of Peace

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Summary: A wonderful book for children and their parents to read!
Review: It is time that we got back to teaching our children the basics of life -- love and kindness! This is a great book for parents to read WITH their children. What a better way to teach your children about life, than to read and learn with them.

You should read her first book -- "Putting the World to Sleep"

This is a wonderful author!

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Summary: Makes the concept of nonviolence accessible to young kids.
Review: This is an excellent and accessible book for young readers which makes the concept of nonviolence a personal thing. Given the recent frightening episodes of violence in our schools and communities, this book contains a valuable lesson for us all, and has a thought-provoking ending which gives the text a real immediacy. The photographs are beautifully done and fully complement and extend the text. What a good job the author and photographer have done in bringing us this gentle and useful book!

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Summary: Teaching children simple ways of bring about peace
Review: When I picked up "Somewhere Today: A Book of Peace," I assumed it was a recent publication, one of many focusing on helping children cope with the aftermath of September 11th. But this book by Shelley Moore Thomas with photographs by Eric Futran was published in 1998. Of course, it is so easy in these present times to forget that peace was a good idea way back then as well.

This book provides simple examples of ways in which both children and adults can bring about peace by doing things to help and care for one another and their world. It begins with the simple idea that "Somewhere today...someone is being a friend instead of fighting." Futran's color photographs reinforce the simple gestures that make peace possible, from making sure children do not get sick to fixing old toys to give to new friends. Young readers will certainly be able to relate to these simple ideas and incorporate them into their own lives. To underscore this idea the last pages shows a young boy reading "Somewhere Today" while the text adds "someone is reading a book about peace and thinking about making the world a better place." These simple proscriptive ideas are well worth sharing with your children or young students, who will probably have some equally good ideas to add to this list.

Rating:
Summary: Teaching children simple ways of bring about peace
Review: When I picked up "Somewhere Today: A Book of Peace," I assumed it was a recent publication, one of many focusing on helping children cope with the aftermath of September 11th. But this book by Shelley Moore Thomas with photographs by Eric Futran was published in 1998. Of course, it is so easy in these present times to forget that peace was a good idea way back then as well.

This book provides simple examples of ways in which both children and adults can bring about peace by doing things to help and care for one another and their world. It begins with the simple idea that "Somewhere today...someone is being a friend instead of fighting." Futran's color photographs reinforce the simple gestures that make peace possible, from making sure children do not get sick to fixing old toys to give to new friends. Young readers will certainly be able to relate to these simple ideas and incorporate them into their own lives. To underscore this idea the last pages shows a young boy reading "Somewhere Today" while the text adds "someone is reading a book about peace and thinking about making the world a better place." These simple proscriptive ideas are well worth sharing with your children or young students, who will probably have some equally good ideas to add to this list.