They will learn the proper use of the telephone, and the ins and outs of being a welcome guest and a gracious hostess. There are also ideas for having a special party oneself. This beautifully illustrated book is special enough to give a young lady as a birthday gift when she enters her teens. Hardcover, issued without jacket. Aliki takes on the topic of manners in her famous visual comic strip style.
Some pages feature a single large panel.
Some picture lessons show children demonstrating good manners or learning them from another child. Children greeting and saying goodbye to guests politely. Even older children might be tempted to pick it up and learn a thing or two on their own. The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace by Richard Brookhiser. These precepts are the very ones that George Washington copied out by hand in his own notebook.