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Robert Coles

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Robert Coles is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor emeritus at Harvard University.

Boston, United States
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A TALL, THIN, WAN LADY with light skin, wide blue eyes, and black hair, she had a distinct presence on the psychiatric ward of the Massachusetts General Hospital, an institution otherwise devoted to medicine and surgery, where I began work early in July 1956.

— from The call of stories, 1989

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#1

The Story of Ruby Bridges

2000

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For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

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Lives of moral leadership

2000

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" ... Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership -- what it is, and how it is achieved -- through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical school, and elementary school, among others ..."

#3

Their eyes meeting the world

1992

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This book distills the author's insights into the ways children from all over the world disclose their deepest convictions, feelings and dreams with crayon, paint, and pencil.

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