I Don't Care! Showing Respect

by Brian Moses

This classic picture book, illustrated by the award-winning artist Mike Gordon, explains to young children what it means to be a respectful member of society and the importance of having respect for other people's needs. It suggests ways of doing this, such as giving up your seat in a public place so that an elderly person can sit down.

It encourages children to think about what respect means to them and looks at why it is important to have respect for library books, rules, animals, public places, as well as the concept of self-respect.

This book is part of a series called Values, which helps children to develop their own value system and make responsible decisions. Notes for parents and teachers show how ideas in the books can be used as starting points for further discussion at home and in the classroom or in school assemblies.

Other titles in the Values series: Taking Responsibility and Learning About Honesty

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Brian Moses has been a professional children’s poet since 1988.. To date he has over 200 books published including volumes of his own poetry such as A Cat Called Elvis and Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian Moses (both Macmillan), anthologies such as The Secret Lives of Teachers and Aliens Stole My Underpants (both Macmillan) and picture books such as Beetle in the Bathroom and Trouble at the Dinosaur Cafe (both Puffin).

Over 1 million copies of Brian’s poetry books have now been sold by Macmillan.

Brian also runs writing workshops and performs his own poetry and percussion shows. To date he has given over 3000 performances in schools, libraries, theatres and at festivals throughout the UK and abroad.

He is also founder & co-director of a national scheme for able writers administered by his booking agency Authors Abroad.

CBBC commissioned him to write a poem for the Queen’s 80th birthday and he was invited by Prince Charles to speak at his Cambridge University teachers’ day in 2007.

A new book of history poems: 1066 & Before That (co-written with Roger Stevens), picture books The Frog Olympics and Dreamer: Saving Our Wild World (OtterBarry Books) and his childhood memoir Keeping Clear of Paradise Street have just been published.

Forthcoming are Python - his first children’s novel, The Waggiest Tails: Dog Poems written with Roger Stevens, and a ‘Best of’ of his poems for younger children.

Reviews

[Sophie Crane · Rating 4 out of 5]

This really just explained the different meanings of respect.

[Gabriella · Rating 4 out of 5]

- Shows different types of respect: respect and admiration for others, respecting places and rules, self-respect
- Speech bubbles and pictures to accompany sentences
- Shows what not to do and what to instead to become respectful and tolerant
- Impact upon others: behaviour
- Questions suggested at the end to ask children and discuss
- Activities children can do as a result of reading the book: write a story
- Suggested books related to respect/tolerance: Sarah scrap and her wonderful heap by Wendy Lewis (respect for the environment)