ValueTales is a series of simple biographical children's books published primarily by the now-defunct Value Communications, Inc. in La Jolla, California. The forty-three books were written by Dr. Spencer Johnson and Ann Donegan Johnson, and illustrated by Stephen Pileggi.
Each book gave a simplified and fictionalized biography of a historical figure as an allegory, illustrating the value of a positive characteristic. Each volume was a white pictorial glossy hardback book around 60 pages long with a brightly colored cartoon of the figure, along with some anthropomorphic item or animal that would narrate the subject's life throughout the book.
The title of each book would be The Value of x: The story of y , where x is the characteristic being exemplified and y is the subject (i.e. The Value of Determination: The Story of Helen Keller). Early editions of the books used a different format: The Valuetale of y: The value of x . So for instance the first edition of the Helen Keller book was called The ValueTale of Helen Keller : the value of determination
The books were quite popular in homes, elementary school libraries, pediatrics offices, and sunday schools across North America. Most of the ValueTales books are out of print. In October 2010, Simon & Schuster Children's Books published anthologized five of the ValueTales books in an edition with new illustrations by Dan Andreason.
There are 43 books in all
ISBN: | 978-0916392369 |
Год издания: | 1979 |
Издательство: | Value Communications |
Серия: | ValueTales |
Язык: | Английский |
A biography of the Chinese philosopher and teacher emphasizing his ideas about the value of honesty.
ISBN: | 978-0916392062 |
Год издания: | 1977 |
Издательство: | Value Communications |
Серия: | ValueTales |
Язык: | Английский |
Retells the story of Louis Pasteur, whose unwavering belief in the concept of germs led to a cure for rabies.
ISBN: | 978-0916392178 |
Год издания: | 1978 |
Издательство: | Value Communications |
Серия: | ValueTales |
Язык: | Английский |
A brief biography of the outstanding 18th-century printer, inventor, and statesman, emphasizing the value of saving in his life.
ISBN: | 978-0916392154 |
Год издания: | 1977 |
Издательство: | Value Communications |
Серия: | ValueTales |
Язык: | Английский |
A biography of the nineteenth-century English novelist, Charles Dickens, emphasizing the value of an imaginative mind.
ISBN: | 978-0916392093 |
Год издания: | 1977 |
Издательство: | Value Communications |
Серия: | ValueTales |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 978-0916392062 |
Год издания: | 1977 |
Издательство: | Value Communications |
Серия: | ValueTales |
Язык: | Английский |
Presents a biography of Albert Schweitzer who based his philosophy on what he called "reverence for life" and dedicated his life to serving humanity.
ISBN: | 978-0916392437 |
Год издания: | 1980 |
Издательство: | Value Communications |
Серия: | ValueTales |
Язык: | Английский |
A brief biography of the 19th-century Danish author of many well-known fairy tales, which stresses the value of personal fantasies and imagination.
ISBN: | 978-0916392055 |
Год издания: | 1977 |
Издательство: | Value Communications |
Серия: | ValueTales |
Язык: | Английский |
One in a series of works which demonstrate the importance of various values. In this work a biography of Will Rogers illustrates the value of humor.
ISBN: | 978-0916392376 |
Год издания: | 1979 |
Издательство: | Value Communications |
Серия: | ValueTales |
Язык: | Английский |
A biography, stressing the understanding and tolerance, of an anthropologist who did extensive studies of primitive cultures.
ISBN: | 978-0916392284 |
Год издания: | 1978 |
Издательство: | Value Communications |
Серия: | ValueTales |
Язык: | Английский |
The Mayo brothers, knowing the importance of sharing, enter a career in which they can share their knowledge, skills, and money with sick people and other doctors.
ISBN: | 978-0916392123 |
Год издания: | 1977 |
Издательство: | Value Communications |
Серия: | ValueTales |
Язык: | Английский |
A biography, stressing the courage, of the first black player in professional baseball.
ISBN: | 978-0916392130 |
Год издания: | 1977 |
Издательство: | Value Communications |
Серия: | ValueTales |
Язык: | Английский |
Demonstrates the value of curiosity in the life of Christopher Columbus
ISBN: | 978-0916392086 |
Год издания: | 1977 |
Издательство: | Value Communications |
Серия: | ValueTales |
Язык: | Английский |
Describes the patient efforts of the Wright brothers to build a flying machine.