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The Caring Kids Series by Dr. Irma Ghosn

A childrens story - The Dragonfly Surprise

Mystery of the Missing Mosaic

Kids book - Children Who Hugged the Mountain Story for Kids - The Old Key

Caring Kids is an award-winning series of contemporary realistic fiction and fantasy for children ages 8-12 by Irma K. Ghosn. The stories are set mainly in the Middle-Eastern context and feature themes of environment, ecology, human rights, tolerance, peace and social responsibility. The stories aim at raising children's awareness about social issues, instilling in them the idea that individuals can make a difference and nurturing emotional intelligence. The characters are mostly average children (or animals in situations that children can easily identify with), who experience problems and conflict, both universal and regional. Some of the stories in the series are fantasy where the characters and events will reflect real life situations in symbolic form. The use of animal characters in human-like situations allows the reader wider interpretation options and fosters more creative reading. However, there will be no magical solutions offered; no fairy godmothers with magic wands, but creativity and responsible problem-solving that all children are capable of and examination of feelings and relationships.

The stories will address the need for belonging, achievement and adventure while offering a motivating and meaningful context against which the children can examine current social issues and explore the underlying values. The discussion opportunities provided by the stories invite the teacher to listen to the children, their experiences and feelings and help them reflect on these.

A message from the author: I am very excited and quite proud of my first published series. I would like to thank you for showing interest in the series and I hope you and the children who read will enjoy it as well as benefit from it. I did all the illustrations on my own, except for the cover illustrations. The covers were done by Maggie Brand. I think the covers are delightful and tie the series together, visually. I will try and get Maggie to do ALL the illustrations in my next series. Irma K. Ghosn

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The available teacher's guide describes the philosophical and theoretical rationale for the benefits of literature for the developing child in general and the use of stories in the second language class in particular. It also provides some basic guidelines for language teachers who have not used unsimplified stories in their classes. The literature link activities connect the local issues to global context and enable the teacher to develop thematic units around the stories.

Caring Kids received the 1998 Mary Finocchiaro Award for Excellence in the Development of Pedagogical Materials from TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) and is published in Beirut by Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, P.O.Box 1085, Beirut, Lebanon. Tel +961-1-306666 e-mail: malayin@malayin.com

If you are looking to purchase the stories, please contact the publisher mentioned above ...
... if you have any questions or comments about the series, please don't hesitate to contact me Irma Ghosn, Ph.D

The series contains these 10 stories:

  • Mystery of the Missing Mosaics
  • Children who Hugged the Mountain
  • The Old Key
  • The Dragonfly Surprise
  • Abul, the True Hero
  • Baz and the Baby
  • Mr. G. Reed Makes a Deal
  • The Smoke Patrol
  • the slow little snail
  • The Little Brown Sparrow Who Could
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