Portraits of Integrity: A Family Treasury: Real People Who Demonstrated Godly Character, Volume 1

by Marilyn Boyer, Grace Tumas

One of the most powerful ways to inspire young people to greatness is through the stories of great people from the past. In Portraits of Integrity you and your children will be challenged to strive for excellence through the examples of 45 people in all three volumes who did just that. In Volume 1, they will meet:

--Jake DeShazer who was a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. He was tortured and kept in solitary confinement for many months, but when a Bible came into his hands he became a Christian and later went to Japan to share the gospel with his former enemies.

--Lieutenant Adrian Marks, the brave young Navy pilot who set his seaplane down on a heaving, shark-infested ocean to pick up survivors of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis at the risk of his own life

--Lydia Darrah, the Quaker woman who overheard British plans to attack George Washington's unprepared army and cleverly took a secret warning to him, saving the army and the War of Independence.

And many others!

Sure to be an all-time family favorite, Portraits of Integrity will be treasured as a centerpiece of family devotions or as a part of Character Concepts Curriculum. Portraits of Integrity will inspire young people and their parents as well, with the examples of people who dared and did great deeds that have gone down in history.

Each of the 45 stories found in Volumes 1-3 illustrates a different character quality as demonstrated in inspiring true stories.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, History, Spirituality, Amazon, Ebooks

132 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 11, 2013

Reviews

[Richard Fitzgerald · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is terrible; I'm tempted to say that this book is vile. The target audience is the young homeschool market. I'm not opposed to homeschooling or using history to teach values or a biblical faith. However, this book uses a preponderance of warmongering and violence-glorifying images and people to teach what the author calls integrity. The malleable minds that read this book are likely to grow up becoming "might makes right" believing adults, which is a lie. There is nothing Christian or positive character-building about this book. Further, the book's educational value is questionable because the questions at the end of each reading, presumably with the intent of helping the student process the lesson, are surface and fact-oriented instead of higher-level questions assisting the reader in processing the implications of what they've just learned.

[Jennifer Leo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyed the stories of historical figures that showed godly character but it got very wordy for my boys to listen to and it was a REAL stretch on some of them to connect the character trait to the story.

[Ruth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rated it low only because it is not my style of reading. :( Trying to broaden my reading style and it was a freebie. :)

[Quinn Wright · Rating 2 out of 5]

not what I was expecting but could be a great tool for teaching your children with history and the word of god.

[Maggie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Will be reading this over Summer with a 10 year-old. Great source for learning and discussion.