This is a truly worthwhile book.  It’s clear, useable, often funny, passionate and even sensible?  It’s important for all of us to do whatever we can to make life better for kids.  This book goes a long way to helping us do that. Paul Newman

When ‘kids take the stage’ we are all taken somewhere important — on a journey of personal, social and ethical discovery; and so we have reason to be grateful for this book, for its offer to guide us on that journey, an important one, indeed. Dr. Robert Coles, child psychiatrist and Harvard University professor