title: Eagle Eyes: A Child's Guide to Paying Attention
author: Jeanne Gehret  MA
description: This book is suitable for ages 6 to 10 years. Like a river overflowing its banks, Ben wreaks havoc until he learns to recognise and control his Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). By the end of Jeanne Gehret's encouraging tale, Ben's family wonder how they could have got along without his special way of seeing the world. Susan Covert's expressive illustrations with a nature theme enhance this tale for reluctant readers.
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  These teaching stories 
  can be experienced on 
  many levels. A child may simply 
  enjoy hearing them, an adult may 
  analyze them in a more sophisticated 
  way. Both may eventually benefit 
  from the lessons within. 
  Lynn Neary "All Things Considered," 
  NPR News, Washington 
  The Old Woman and the Eagle 
  by Idries Shah 
  In this amusing story, an old woman 
  encounters an eagle for the first time. 
  Perplexed by its unfamiliar appearance, 
  she decides to change it to suit her own 
  ideas of what a bird should look like. 
  Her efforts mirror a common pattern of 
  human thought: altering the unfamiliar 
  to make it acceptable. 
  This tale is specially presented for 
  children by Afghan author Idries Shah, 
  who, for more than 30 years, collected 
  stories from the Sufi tradition and 
  adapted them to contemporary Western 
  culture. Told since ancient times through¬ 
  out Afghanistan, Central Asia and the 
  Middle East, such tales are used b