Former Marine Squeezes Animals Into Books

Over 140,000 copies have been sold in this award-winning Character education Series. Two new titles are being released in July 2003, It's Not Fair! and Noise! Noise! Noise! Carl Sommer writes from over 72 years of life experiences to build character children.

Former Marine Squeezes Animals Into Books

It's not as bad as it sounds. Especially when the former marine is now a devoted educator committed to teaching basic skills and enduring values to young people. And, his method is by transforming animals into books - and these books are winning awards.

Carl Sommer is a man who has taken a stand. After a decade of personal research in Americas classrooms, he developed an unerring sense of what's missing from our educational system. His extensive findings are summarized in his book-entitled Schools in Crisis: Training for Success or Failure?-credited with influencing school reform in many states. But he didn't stop there...

Unlike the members of the Dilly Dally family, characters he invented who always put play before work, Sommer got right to the task of developing other creative approaches to achieving better education. Offering powerful solutions for the many ills he identified in his research, he wrote Another Sommer-Time Story, an award winning series of 20 illustrated books for children.

Like the magician that turns balloons into animals, Sommer transforms animals and other simple characters into teachers of great wisdom, imparting such values as responsibility, tolerance, honesty, friendship and forgiveness.

For example, Tombo, the self-proclaimed biggest, fastest, and strongest tadpole learns that having friends is better than being a bully and King of the Pond. In all, over thirty different values are depicted in an engaging approach that both adults and children love, and that schools need.