With the start of the new school year, young children who may be in school for the first time or in a new class may feel anxious about the environment and fitting in with the rest. Here’s a book that I thought would be appropriate to share with you at this time of the year.
It’s BLEAGH’s (pronounced BLEH) first day of school and he feels shy and homesick. For those of us who have kids who are not afraid to be in class on their own, we could use the book to teach them about Empathy:
For kids who may identify more with Bleagh instead, we can discuss with them later in the book how Bleagh eventually overcame his fear and made friends.
Leana Lyn Doray uses a lighthearted and engaging story to teach children key lessons in empathy, tolerance, creativity, cooperation, appreciation, and integrity.
My girl’s favourite part – BLEAGH eats garbage!
Instead of ostracising Bleagh for eating strange food, they asked Bleagh about his food (Tolerance) and when he was still hungry the children banded together and creatively found him more to eat.
Personally I like that each individual value is highlighted with a gold badge. This helps to make the lesson clear so children can easily grasp each concept and (hopefully) demonstrate it in their own life. Each value is also explained in simple terms which makes it easier for children to understand. And the beautifully illustrated pages are definitely a draw for children!
Want to own your own copy? Here’s the good news! A copy of Bleagh – A Book about Values is up for grabs!
You can win by simply leaving a comment on this blog post and remembering to click ‘I Commented’ in the Rafflecopter widget to qualify. The rest of the options are optional, but would render you more chances to win!
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Hi,
My Daughter started reading on her own. The book is all about basic morals & characters which are going to be with them through out their life as the Guiding angels..The book explain about this values in most simple yet catchy manner..
Thanks for the wonderful giveaway
its good as the kids goes to first day of school a couple of times in their early years..by the way can this book be used with penpal whizz?
I wish to win this book for my son as he loves reading and learn more about moral & values!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Would like to read this book to my girls as the key lessons are important and they might understand better via stories.
Thanks for hosting.
Hi, I would like to win this book for my son to teach him values
My 3 years old daughter has mild cerebral palsy. Rather than sending her to a normal pre-school, we put her in early intervention program for special need children so that she can receive extra therapies. Sadly she doesn’t like her school. I hope to help her with this book.
My daughter loves to read and also needs to bring a story book to school every day. She will like this book!
This would be a lovely book to read to my son.
My children love to read! Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
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I want to use this interesting book to teach my child values.
I can use this book to help kyle understand why he shouldn’t dislike school and go to school everyday without crying!
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Sounds like the perfect book to inculcate some early values education in my kids.
We have book 2 in this series, so I guess it will be awesome to win book 1, where it all began!! thanks for hosting this giveaway!
My daughters will love this storybook for sure!
Moral and values is something I’d like to instil in my girl’s mind. What an awesome giveaway! Thank you for hosting!
I would like to instill values in my girl. Love to win this book!
My god-daughter will love this book with her Pen Pal Whizz
This is a great book to use to teach my daughters good values
My granddaughter loves to read so much. She’ll love this book for sure!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Would love any good books that can get us discussing good moral values.
Hi Angeline
Would love to win this book to help my son who always has first day/time jitters at any new environment or class he attends.
Thank you for this giveaway.
Cheers!
Audrey 🙂
Hi, would like to share this book with my gal who started Pl this year and the stories of moral and values are in-line with her school’s values too.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Cheers, Patrina
My son just started playgroup and i want to cultivatr him to have good reading habits.
My boy is shy and I would like to use
this book to stress to him that he should
not behave this way.
would love to get the book for my boys and learn about values
Would love to win this to add to my collection! My girls will be thrilled!