From the bestselling, trusted team behind the Dino Tales: Life Guides for Families series comes this introductory guide that encourages young readers to become engaged citizens of the world.
This essential, kid-friendly nonfiction guide isn't just for families looking to share genuinely patriotic values during an election year -- it's for everyone. Using accessible dinosaur characters and clear language, Democracy for Dinosaurs explores key civic values on every adult's mind and helps show young readers how the things they do every single day can be guided by principles we must share in a democratic society: freedom, fairness, the rule of law, equality, respect for free speech, and respect for the truth. By modeling accessible ways to practice being a good citizen, children will understand they are part of their country and that they have an important role to play.---from the publisher
32 pages 978-0316534529 Ages 4-8
Keywords: democracy, government, dinosaurs, information, freedom, free speech, citizenship, 4 year old, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, Social Studies Curriculum
Other Dino Tales: Life Guides for Families
How to Be a Friend
Dinosaurs Divorce
When Dinosaurs Die
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"Our approach to this subject:
With this albeit little picture book, both Marc and I put our best and most ambitious efforts to work so as to contribute to the principled education of our youngest readers. I believe that young children are perfectly capable of grasping and using behavior that for example is fair, honest and respectful of others. By identifying and modeling these ideals for them, the book sets out in each chapter to help explain what they can do to practice their citizenship. For example, in the chapter Be Fair, we first define being fair, then give familiar situations where fairness comes up, such as whether the rules in a game treat all the kid players the same, i.e., fairly. Is it that different for a country to have fair rules, called laws, that tell citizens and the government what they can and cannot do? By making such connections, we hope to meet readers at the beginning of their thinking about our country and their place in it.--from the authors
