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| ISBN 978-1-421465-00-0 |
| size : 15 cm x 10.5 cm |
| 128 pages |
| Published: January 2008 |
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| Alphabetical List of Poems |
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A book within a book Acceptance Appreciation Being honest Believe in yourself Challenges Change Competition Cooperation Courage Creativity Criticism has no place Experimenting Expressing yourself Faith Focus Friendship Helping others How a person treats you If someone treats you badly Inspiration Integrity Opportunities Peer pressure Pride Progress Questioning yourself Reliability Respect Responsibility School Self-reflection Set of principles Standing up for yourself Taking advantage The path that we choose To know To mimic another Tolerance Trust What is my future? What is poetry? What others say What you need What you say |
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Welcome to The Little Book of Values.
The original motivation behind this book was interest shown by a
couple of local schools in Gary's first book titled "A nod and a
smile". This interest pleasantly surprised Gary, and at the same
time, raised a couple of concerns. First, "A nod and a smile" was
not originally designed or intended to be used in schools. Another
concern was, that "A nod and a smile" is a random book, in that, you
can literally open it to any poem and just read what is there. As
such, it does not contain a Contents page or an Index. This makes it
somewhat impractical as a reference material for a school. As a
result, it was decided to create this book.
"The Little Book of Values" consists of 46 pieces of prose over 128
pages. It is 10.5 cm (4.13") wide by 14.8 cm (5.83") long, (also
known as A6), and approximately 8 mm (5/16") thick. It easily fits
into a purse or even a back pocket.
The book contains a Contents section and an Index of Poems. It is divided
into four sections, namely, Starting Out, The Little Book of
Growing, A little deeper, and To Conclude.
The book was self-published by the Gary using his publishing name of
Outside The Square Publishing. Three print runs of 200 copies each
have been conducted. At this time, only a limited number of copies
are available.
Gary created the book on his desktop PC, and is responsible for
every word in it. The feather on the front cover was part of his
first book and is expected to be a feature on all subsequent books
that Gary may publish.
To create this book, Gary used several poems, relating to values,
from his first book "A nod and a smile". He added some other poems
from his collection to produce this book. The majority of the poems
in the first section, "Starting Out" are from Gary's first book, "A
nod and a smile".
The second section of this book titled "The Little Book of Growing"
is a collection of poems written by Gary on one day in 2004. The aim
of these poems was to give our younger friends in life, some insight
and hints on what might happen, and what they could do, to assist
themselves on their path in life.
The third section of this book titled "A little deeper" is, as the
title says, a little deeper. It is biased to characteristics that
are believed worthwhile, meaningful, and helpful for each of us in
our lives.
The final section of this book titled "To Conclude" consists of
three poems that hopefully will stimulate your thoughts on your
direction in life, where you are, where you are heading, and more
importantly, where you want to go.
As with his first book, the theme behind each piece of writing is to
stimulate your thoughts and ideas. Gary readily acknowledges that he
does not have the answers. He offers his words as suggestions and
ideas that may help you along your journey in life. In anything that
Gary does, his wish is to give the reader hope for the future.
It is hoped that this information will give you an insight into what
you will find in "The Little Book of Values." You are welcome to
contact Gary using the link below if you have any questions
regarding this book.
To order this book
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