A Smart Girl's Guide: Manners: The Secrets to Grace, Confidence, and Being Your Best (American Girl(r) Wellbeing)

This series of books is wonderful and I have bought lots of them for my almost 12 year old daughter. Although they are written for the USA market and some of the words or phrases aren't necessarily what we would use in the UK, the advice is sound, appropriate and there is a strong emphasis on respect and kindness toward yourself, your friends and your parents throughout the series. I cannot recommend them enough. This book covers basic manners, why people tell white lies to avoid hurting others feelings, how to say please and thank you properly and how to take a compliment.

Excellent book for young girls, the language is pitched just right, my granddaughter loves it. Extremely useful book and the price is well balanced.

This book will help your child. Good manners are essential and it provide all that any child needs to know.

Very nice book, every girl must have!

Let's see... Manners are perfect now! This book really helped my girls to decide when to use manners. This is the perfect book to help children have impeccable manners.

Great for giving pre teen advice

My daughter read this. She is a fluent reader and excels at backchat. There is no improvement in manners whatsoever and apparently all she has learnt is that by “using please and thank you either side of a swear word they makes it polite”She is still rude and this book clearly does meet its claims.

Bought for my daughter and it has bit about committing suicide in it so have taken it back from her. Not suitable for children!

I really liked this book for my nine year old daughter. It talks about why manners are important and the language is very accessible and kind. It talks about how manners are not just some rules about right and wrong but they help people know what is expected of one another. And help society function because they are agreed upon customs and expectations of productive adults. It makes manners about being a grown up. Like it makes manners seem like something you want to learn!

Bought this for my daughter and she loved it.

Love it. Highly recommended

Good book, worth its price. Bought for my 9 year old.

I bought this for my 11 year old to help her understand how to be more aware of herself as she interacts with other children and adults in terms of having manners. Of course, children will also learn from what they see, so parents must display these same manners towards others. It was a fun book to read together.