Having good manners is more than saying “please” and “thank you.” Good manners are displayed by everyday actions, such as holding the door for someone or shaking someone’s hand when you meet them. Readers will learn all about being polite through common situations and colorful photographs. Relatable examples will help them understand the different times it’s important to be polite, as well as complement character education curriculum standards. Readers learn that it's fun being polite!

Find out what it means to be honest, polite, caring, and how to play fairly.

Simple text and photographs show various ways children can be polite.

When children are kind, courteous, and respectful, people enjoy being around them and reciprocate with the same behavior. This book helps kids understand the importance of showing politeness, speaking kindly, using basic courtesies (“please,” “thank you,” “excuse me”), and respecting the feelings of others. Scenarios and role-play activities help adults reinforce the book’s lessons.

Twelve essays by a Japanese-American writer about being caught between past and present, old country and new. In this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delves into her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both graceful and stirring. From her unhappy childhood in Japan, weighted by a troubled family and a constricting culture, to the American Midwest, where she found herself free to speak as a strong-minded independent woman, though still an outsider, Mori explores the different codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives: the ties that bind us to family and the lies that keep us apart; the rituals of mourning that give us the courage to accept death; the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and second nature to Americans. In the sensitive hands of this compelling writer, one woman's life becomes the mirror of two profoundly different societies.