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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780879058623 Edition: 1st Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0879058625 Label: Gibbs Smith, Publisher Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith, Publisher Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 32 Publication Date: September 01, 1998 Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher Studio: Gibbs Smith, Publisher Related Items:
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 Rating:  - For TeachingUse this to teach what one of the biggest purposes of life are to kids. GOod jumping off point to start discussions with your own children. Rating:  - A Book to give over and overI picked up this book by chance in a bookstore not long after my brother, whose name by coincidence is Robert, passed away of cancer. I cried right there in the bookstore. This book takes the meaning of life and simplifies it to an allegory about lessons learned and why we are here in the first place without being overbearing. In a simple way, it brings life down to who do you love and who loves you. And it makes you realize that all of life is lesson after lesson. I have given it to so many friends ... Read More Rating: - The Lesson belongs in everyone's Personal Library!I discovered "The Lesson" in a candle store at the mall a couple of years ago. I gave the book as a gift to my husband and he loved it so much that we purchased ten more copies for friends. We continue to purchase copies as gifts and the recipients are always deeply touched by this wonderful short story of Robert who learns the greatest life lesson of all: How much did you love? I am an avid reader and an author - this is one of my favorite books! Rating: - A Treasure !!!The Lesson is a wonderful book for readers young and old. We follow Robert from his first day in school in Kindergarten to throughout his entire life! Robert beams with pride when the teacher first gives him a problem to solve and he solves it correctly. Yet as Robert matures, the problems keep coming, some easy and some not so easy. Some he can't wait to solve, while others he would prefer for them to go away so that he does not have to solve them. We all have had problems like that!! Robert ... Read More Rating: - A Fable About the Greatest Lesson In Living Your LifeThis is a sometimes joyful, sometimes sorrowful, but always hopeful tale of the most important lesson we can teach our children in life. Carol Lynn Pearson tells the tale of Robert, a little boy we meet on his first day of school. He is joyful as he solves his very first problem: One plus one equals what? As the years go by, the problems get bigger, but Robert manages to solve them and move on. The problems are no longer as much fun, but still must be solved. Sometimes Robert wants to run away from the ... Read More 
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