<P> ValueTales is a series of simple biographical children's books published primarily by the now - defunct Value Communications, Inc. in La Jolla, California . The forty - three books were written by Dr. Spencer Johnson and Ann Donegan Johnson, and illustrated by Stephen Pileggi . </P> <P> Each book gave a simplified and fictionalized biography of a historical figure as an allegory, illustrating the value of a positive characteristic . Each volume was a white pictorial glossy hardback book around 60 pages long with a brightly colored cartoon of the figure, along with some anthropomorphic item or animal that would narrate the subject's life throughout the book . </P>

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