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by: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa McCourt
Amazon.com's Price: $3.95 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780757302817
ISBN: 0757302815
Label: HCI
Manufacturer: HCI
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 48
Publication Date: February 01, 2005
Publisher: HCI
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Sales Rank: 480378
Studio: HCI
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Product Description:
The Chicken Soup for Little Souls series (more than 400,000 copies sold) brought the magic of Chicken Soup to young readers with heartwarming stories of love, friendship, and kindness that parents could read to their young children. Now these classic books have been resized and rewritten into intermediate-level readers that kids 6 and up can read themselves. While the text has been shortened and simplified, it retains the enduring Chicken Soup message of sincere and heartfelt virtue.
The new reader series starts with two books:
In The Best Night Out With Dad, Danny can't wait to go to the circus with his dad. It's going to be the best night ever! But the night has a surprise ending when Danny meets Victor in the ticket line.
In The Greatest Gift of All, Izzy finds out that her parents won't let her go to Pine View Camp. Her summer is ruined! But things begin to change for Izzy when she starts to do Give-back Time with Grandpa Mike and meets the Braids Girl.
With a lower price point, friendly format and the power of the Chicken Soup brand, these books will inspire children as they teach the joy of reading.
Key Features
- The previous books were for parents to read to children; the new books have been shortened by approximately 25% and redesigned to make them appropriate for intermediate readers (ages 6 and up).
- The books contain 4-color illustrations throughout, including many full-page bleeds.
- The recognizable brand, along with the lower price point and smaller trim size, make this a perfect impulse purchase for busy parents.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Chicken Soup for Little Souls
Although I am a bit over the age this book was directed at, I still find this book really great. The illustrations are simply beautiful, and the story is simple but powerful.
It's about a boy who goes to his annual trip to the circus with his Dad. He meets a new friend who has never gone to the circus before. When his friend meets a problem, the boy has to help him out.
It's really an example of what we all should be like.
Rating: - One of our favorite books (and we have LOTS)
I get teary every time I read this with my children. It is a wonderful story and teaches a great lesson in sharing and giving something love so that someone else can experience that joy -- and how wonderful you feel for having given it away.
Rating: - A very nice story about sharing
On his way to the circus, Danny makes a new friend. The meeting leads up to an important decision. This tender story pulled at my heart strings as well. I'm sure it brought tears to my eyes the first time I read it.
Lively illustrations accompany the tender story. Definitely a must for any little boy or girl's bookshelf.
Rating: - Clear Values for Families of all Faiths
This set of books wonderfully illustrates the values of putting others ahead of yourself and the joy that can come from making others happy. The illustrations are engaging to children and the stories hold their attention. I have used these three books with children from three years to twelve years of age in a childcare setting and was very pleased with the way they held the children's attention and at the discussion generated during and after the story.
Rating:  - Presents Animals in an archaic manner.
Although I liked the idea of the child and the father enjoying themselves at the circus, the kind of circus displayed is slowing, thankfully dying out. Using elephants, bears and tigers to entertain humans is becoming less accepted as they are replaced with domestic animals. Presenting to the children in the 90's images of wild animals performing gives this practice a stamp of approval it shouldn't get.I feel the authors and publishers of children's books should be more responsible for the images ... Read More
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