Noah Zarc Teaches Kids Their Parents Love Them
D. Robert Pease, author of YA novel Noah Zarc, shares his interview with Character Building Counts Book Awards. Using time travel and spaceships to save animals from extinction, Pease teaches children...
View ArticleWhat is Honor?
To determine to safeguard and cherish our core beliefs and never, in any way, abandon those beliefs. To attain victory and pass on worthwhile values, ethics, and character traits to our successors. To...
View ArticleDolls Teach Anti-Bully Lesson
Describe your book’s character-building message. Pretty Dolls is a story about Gracie—a purple-eyed, one-armed, spiky-haired doll—who’s won the heart and snuggly arms of a little girl named Tasha. But...
View ArticleA Mother Worthy of Honor
In honor of my mother I write to you an ode, Something to relate to, no matter what is told. Once so close and now so far, we live in different lands. I long to see her once again and hold onto her...
View ArticleCrime Drama on Recovering from Tragic Loss
From CBC Book Awards interview with David W. Huffstetler, author of Blood on the Pen: 1. Describe your book’s character-building message. Jack Harden is a modern-day Texas Ranger who lost his wife to a...
View ArticleWho Do You Honor?
When you think of someone to Honor, what is the first image that jumps into your mind? Is it a veteran who merits special mention for helping a wounded comrade from the battlefield? Or perhaps a man in...
View ArticleHonor Ascending
Angle of decent … ill-prepared phase … blinded by Greed, to disregard … creeds of Honor sleep. Irreverence breeds separation and speeds castration of Empathy. Results daily can be seen … of failure to...
View ArticleBarack Obama’s Children’s Book Joins Awards
Character Building Counts Book Awards (CBC Awards) celebrates honor, integrity, honesty, and decency in all genres of books. We pay tribute to authors who weave a character-building message into their...
View ArticleThe Bullied Deserve Our Support
My friend was noticeably troubled when she told me how her grandson had been bullied on his junior high school campus. The tormentor had slammed a locker door into her grandson’s head—for the fun of...
View ArticleCharacter Building Counts Book Award Winners 2012
What does a young boy with a facial disfigurement have in common with the true story of a young girl who was gunned down in Tucson, Arizona? Both youngsters are featured in award-winning books that...
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