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What Is a Feeling? examines how we can understand feelings and where they come from, while at the same time learning the best ways to express our feelings without hurting ourselves and others. The importance of emotional awareness and intelligence is stressed so that children have guides for allowing safe and creative expression of their feelings.

In this book, author Boritzer explores how we can try to discern between facts and appearances in our world. Children are asked to carefully consider their actions and thoughts based on various types of inquiry and evaluation. What Is True? provides both the child and adult listeners numerous openings for discussion in order that children may cultivate the critical thinking required to travel through an increasingly complex world.

In this book Etan explores the themes of co-operative and supportive behavior between individuals, as well as what sometimes goes wrong in our relationships with one another. With numerous openings in the text for discussion, What Is a Friend? will help children cultivate the critical thinking required for understanding the complex dynamics of personal interactions. This book will become an important part of any child’s library, and a valuable resource for parents, educators, and child-life professionals.

What Is Right? helps children develop critical thinking skills on the difficult subjects of ethics and integrity. Author Boritzer does not take a teaching approach. He presents children and adults with an opportunity to dialogue together in considering decisions and choices involving various situations which require wholesome social reasoning abilities.

What Is Peace? explores themes of non-violence and diversity helping kids, parents, and teachers to discuss and cultivate the critical thinking required for peaceful actions. Young listeners will be able to take a thoughtful and positive journey through the complex issues connected with the personal responsibilities inherent to peace. What Is Peace? gently teaches the true essence and workings of peace.

What Is Money? opens up discussion for children on issues of financial responsibility, both practical and ethical. Encouraging children to learn about and understand the true value of one of man's most intriguing inventions, What Is Money? is a way to examine the history of money, as well as the realistic applications and moral questions associated with its use.

What Is Love? is a way for children to discover how we all share many of the same needs and concerns in life, especially the need for love! This book communicates a message of multiculturalism and diversity as the means by which goals of understanding and tolerance can be reached. A sincere yet playful message for appreciating one of life's tenderest emotions through which children can ponder the total human experience of honest caring and good will.

What Is Funny? book addresses the subject of sensitivity and awareness in humor. Laughing at others or laughing at oneself, or laughing for no particular reason at all, author Etan Boritzer approaches the various subtleties of this basic human activity asking what is appropriate and what is hurtful, while tackling issues of taunting and teasing, bullying, and aggression - issues that are very much in the focus of our nation’s schools today.

The author uses his well-known style to ask young listeners serious questions that sharpen their critical thinking skills and lead to real understanding of complex issues. What Is a Family? tackles difficult questions regarding the fast-changing face of contemporary families. Values of an ideal family and the problems that occur in real families are all open for discussion.

Children’s dreams are a mysterious and sometimes frightening subject. Dreams can be informative in dealing with everyday problems. What Is Dreaming? will help to open discussion on children’s dreams and to unravel some of the subconscious concerns which children confront in their dreams, both scary and fun dreams. Parents, educators, and child-life professionals will find What Is Dreaming? to be a valuable resource in dealing with children’s dreams.

What Is Death? addresses children’s natural curiosity about this difficult subject. Introducing the concept of death with examples of customs and beliefs from different religions and cultures, the book also allows the listener to reflect on themes of tolerance, identity, and generosity. Reality-based and using a gentle and comforting tone, What Is Death? takes an honest approach and encourages children to embrace the positive in life.

What Is Beautiful? explores the underlying ideas of what constitutes true beauty in a person. Parents and teachers will welcome the book’s message of genuine self-esteem as the antidote to peer pressures inside and outside school. Etan Boritzer conveys a deep understanding of inner values to children as opposed to media and social hypes. The book is a useful tool that encourages our children to consider inner values, what makes a person truly beautiful.

What Is God? is an introduction to the comparative study of major world’s religions. Author Boritzer explores the different teachers and books available for trying to answer one of “the biggest question of all” in a way that teaches respect and acceptance for the diversity and the similarities of views on this difficult topic.

What Is Respect? is Etan Boritzer’s 14th title in the best-selling "What Is?" series on life concepts and difficult topics that help our children develop critical thinking skills and emotional intelligence. This book helps our children in learning respect, both self-respect as well as respect for friends, schoolmates, and family. Learning respect for religious and cultural diversity, and even respect for planet Earth are examined.

What Is Healthy? is a guide to tackling issues that parents, educators, and child-life professionals will appreciate in helping to steer our children through the risks of modern unhealthy lifestyles. What Is Healthy? suggests the means to holistic mind-body health for children, and even expands the concept of health into social and global arenas.