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Danie van der Merwe Diana Huss Green, Founder of Parents' Choice, called upon a group of longtime Parents' Choice friends - critics, teachers, librarians, moms and dads for help giving families some "time out" from the world. Her criteria for the group's suggested list of Read Aloud Together Comfort Books follow:
- Each book must have a sustaining skeleton of universal moral values. Kindness, truth, love, and decency -- all the life basics you learned from the one or two people you've most respected in your whole life.
- After that the stories need a beginning, middle and an end, a satisfying end. Humor of course will add to the richness but not before or even up close to fully rounded characters, a narrative voice of unwavering goodness and a tone of unwavering courage.
A tidy little world in which virtue is rewarded and evil is punished? Not necessarily. We, and our children are too sophisticated for that. But not too sophisticated for a rollicking good story to divert our overburdened souls.
We hope you enjoy the results.
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