Value Tales
by Dr. Spencer Johnson, Ann Donegan Johnson, Stephen Pileggi
Biography, History, Picture Books, Inspirational
“ValueTales” is a series of 43 simple biographical children’s books published primarily by the now-defunct Value Communications, Inc. Each book gives a simplified and semi-fictionalized biography of a historical figure as an allegory, illustrating the value of a characteristic. Each volume is 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 narrates the subject’s life throughout the book. The title of each book is “The Value of X: The Story of Y”, where X is the characteristic exemplified and Y is the exemplary person, i.e. “The Value of Determination: The Story of Helen Keller”. (Early editions of the books use a different format: “The Valuetale of Y: The Value of X”. So the first edition of the Helen Keller book is called “The ValueTale of Helen Keller: The Value of Determination”.) In October 2010, Simon & Schuster Children’s Books published anthologized five of the “ValueTales” books in an edition with new illustrations by Dan Andreason. A list of all the ValueTale books may be found on Wikipedia, more information on certain volumes may be found on Goodreads.
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