Abbey & Friends M is for Manners

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Summary: How good manners promote pleasant interactions
Review: Abbey & Friends M Is For Manners is the latest in a series of picturebooks especially designed to teach children about positive behavior through providing examples and presenting clear stories with Mary Jesse's simple prose style of storytelling enhanced with the colorful illustrations of Jennifer Cherif. Abbey & Friends M Is For Manners tells of a young girl's day and how good manners promote pleasant interactions and help everybody have a better time. Abbey & Friends M Is For Manners is a highly recommended addition for any school or community library collection for young readers.

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Summary: M is for Marvelous!
Review: Abbey & Friends is a great book, with language that will grab and keep a kid's attention. The story is entertaining and is illustrated with adorable drawings that contain details that kids will continue to discover long after their first reading of the book. I have already purchased two copies as gifts for friends with children. I am a particular fan of the ladybug.

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Summary: politeness can be fun
Review: Abbey is a straight arrow -- plays soccer, enjoys school & is observant, with a gentle sense of humor.

Rebeccasreads recommends M IS FOR MANNERS as a good book for families, reading groups & teachers. Hopefully, by reading it enough times, some of the ways to be polite will become embedded!

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Summary: A book with a LOT of Grace and Charm!
Review: As an etiquette instructor who has read nearly every book on the shelf in this category, I must say that I found this delightfully illustrated story fresh and inspiring.

I think that what struck a chord with me particularly is that the characters are REAL children...in the way that they're NOT fairy princesses, Victorian school children, or living some other seemingly un-attainable lifestyle to most kids today.

It's time to take the fish forks and white gloves OUT of manners and etiquette...bringing manners into the mainstream!

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Summary: Great read aloud for kids
Review: ISBN: 0-9729958-0-3
Title: M is for Manners
Author: Mary Jesse
Illustrator: Jennifer Cherif
Publisher: Hexagon Blue
�M is for Manners� is a delightful debut picture book introducing us hopefully to a new read aloud series titled � Abbey and Friends.
Abbey is an enchanting third grader with a brother named Max, great family and friends and a loveable dog. Jesse has penned a simple tale focused on show casing examples of positive behavior for Abbey�s young readers and listeners.
Jesse and Cherif blend their talent in this colorful picture book sure to please readers and listeners alike. Jesse�s narrative is a subtle teaching tool of manners with out a hint of preaching and Cherif�s illustrations are bright and filled with surprises that will have youngsters searching out lady bugs and blue hexagons hidden throughout each and every glorious page. Congratulations Mary Jesse and Jennifer Cherif on the first of what looks to be a needed and successful new series for the younger set. Good job!
Beverly J Scott author of �Righteous Revenge� and �Ruth Fever.� Reviewer for Intriguing Authors and Their Books at http://www.funeralassociates.com/authors.htm

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Summary: Delightfully entertaining!
Review: M Is For Manners tells of Abbey (a third grader) and her family, as they go to dinner at Sarah's house. This is a wonderful book, which can be used to teach children positive behaviors, no matter what the circumstance. The beautiful illustrations will surely entertain, but most importantly -this whimsical story will appeal to children of all ages.

I highly recommended this enchanting book as an addition for any school, reading group, community library. Although I would like to see this as required reading for pre-school's.

Betsie
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