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Reviewed by Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite
'The Locket Lesson' by Terri Kelley is a story that teaches small children values and ethics. The story is about a little girl who goes for shopping with her mother. She likes a locket in the store and while nobody is watching, she slips it into her pocket. She starts feeling guilty and she she confesses about the theft to her mother. She is then made to go through the consequences of her actions. This little girl learns a valuable lesson from the incident.
What is right and what is wrong should be taught at an early age to children and in this book, the author puts across the concepts very beautifully and in a manner that is easily understandable by kids. This book is helpful for people dealing with children and child behavior, to teachers and parents. It helps them in analyzing the behavior of children and teaching them moral values and ethics. Like all Terri Kelley books, the illustrations in this story are also top class. The illustrator complements the author's writings and breathes life into the characters and the situations.
The author knows how to attract children to stories. She makes it bright , colorful and depicts the scenes with the help of big pictures. It is an excellent bedtime story book and it is also good as a read aloud story book. School libraries and children's libraries should have these kind of story books that is interesting to read but at the same time conveys a good moral to children.