This booklet has been made possible with help from the following people who reviewed early drafts, provided materials and suggestions, and generously contributed from their own experience: Ruth Pilsbury, Steven Tigner, Mary Sears, Miriam Marecek, Anne Ilacqua, Lee Delattre, Julie Boothby, April Supple, Judith Schickedanz, Joan Dee, Thomas Culliton, Scott and Victoria Stripling, Roselmina Indrisano, Richard Chambers, John Burkett, Roger Shattuck, Leon Kass, Maria Brisk, William Bennett, Jayne Karsten, Myles Striar, William and Jan Russell, Andrew Oldenquist, Edward Styles, Peter Losin, Betsy Speicher, Charles Glenn, Victor Kestenbaum, Charles Griswold, Jane O'Hern, David Kahn, Sydney Eisen, Kevin Ryan, Carolyn Gecan, Gary Edwards, Robert Fullinwider, Charles Karelis, James Herbert, Mary Minner, and many individuals within the Office of Educational Research and Improvement.

Mark Travaglini and Mamie Brown copyedited this book with production assistance from Torey Evans. Jaine Shattan reviewed the bibliography and Michael Patrick Hearn advised on the use of artwork that is in the public domain.

Edwin J. Delattre is Dean of Boston University's School of Education, Olin Scholar in Applied Ethics, and Professor of Philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts. He is President Emeritus of St. John's College in Annapolis, MD, and Santa Fe, NM, and the author of two books and numerous articles on ethics in education, business, government, and law enforcement. He holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Alice B. Dellatre has worked as a cataloguer at the Tompkins(McCaw Library of the Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University and in the Catalogue Department of the Main Library, University of Texas at Austin, and she has served as a volunteer in the Concord Free Public Library in Concord, Massachusetts. She holds a B.A. form Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia, and did graduate study in library science at The University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio.

Nancy Ione Young drew the cover illustration.

Illustrations from classic children's books include: pages 3, 5, and 9 by W.W. Denslow in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and pages 20, 26, 30, and 44 by Arthur Rackham in Sleeping Beauty.

The illustration of the book on the inside cover is by Brian A. Griffin.

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