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Published:
Oliver Owl’s Character Tales, The Bear Cubs Learn About Obedience
Oliver Owl’s Character Tales, The Otter Learns About Responsibility

Book Dedication:The books are dedicated to my children Kristina, Daniel, Kimberly, Kerri-Lynne, David, Kathryn, Dominic and Kassandra for the inspiration that I received from spending time reading to them and training them on the value of their character and the importance of ones character in life.

Motivation for writing the Books:   When my children were younger, I tried finding books for them that would provide encouragement to teach them to develop good character qualities.  I could not locate any so I thought, why not try to develop stories, write them and then see what they thought.  I wrote the first 2 stories to see what they thought of them and they enjoyed them so well that I decided to see if I could have them published. 

Where did the idea of Character Tales come from?A number of years ago, I attended a seminar entitled “Institute for Basic Life Principles” and at the seminar purchased a volume entitled “Character Sketches”.  The individual sketches teach about the character traits of an animal and then tie it to a Biblical character with the same character trait.  I thought, children love animals therefore why not create stories using animals to teach about character building.

Intention for writing the books:To place reading tools in the hands of parents and grandparents enabling them to teach their children and grandchildren about character traits.