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

William J. Bennett provides collected hundreds of stories in The Reserve of Virtues, an instructive and motivating anthology that will help kids understand and develop character — and help adults teach them. In the Bible to American background, from Greek mythology to British poetry, from fairy stories to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference stage that will assist anchor our kids and ourselves inside our culture, our history, and our customs — the sources of the ideals where we desire to live our lives. Filled with instructive introductions and records, The Publication of Virtues is usually a book everyone can read and revel in — and learn from — together.