The Book of Virtues: An Audio Library of Great Moral Stories Audiobook (Free)

Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Credibility. Friendship. Persistence. Beliefs. Everyone identifies these attributes as essentials of good personality. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of bad and the good, right and incorrect. And the best locations to see them are in great functions of literature and exemplary tales from history.

William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of tales in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop personality — and help adults teach them. Through the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to British poetry, from fairy stories to contemporary fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference stage that will assist anchor our children and ourselves inside our culture, our history, and our traditions — the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Filled with instructive introductions and notes, The Publication of Virtues is certainly a book the whole family can read and revel in — and study from — together.