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I am looking for a Children\u2019s book, from the 70\u2019s or 80\u2019s. It does have pictures. It may be a Golden book, but that is just a stretch of my memory.<\/p>\n
The book is about a Kingdom in strife. Lords and Ladies are backstabbers and no one is happy. The King is fed up with it<\/p>\n
The King comes up with a plan: He summons a page. He tells the page he is concerned about the state of the kingdom. He instructs the page to go out (on his horse) into the kingdom and find all that wrong. Find that which has sharp thorns, plants that are poisonous and so forth.\u00a0 Collect as much as he can (for show & tell) and bring it back in a week.<\/p>\n
When the 1st<\/sup> page has left the castle grounds he summons a 2nd<\/sup> page. He tells the page he is concerned about the state of the kingdom.\u00a0 He instructs the page to ride forth into the kingdom and find all that is beautiful. Collect as much as he can (for show & tell) and bring it back in a week.<\/p>\n The first page comes back. He is cut by thorns and has rashes from the poisonous plants. The King asks: \u201cWhat is the state of the Kingdom?\u201d The page replies that the kingdom is in terrible shape. It is covered with ugliness and poison plants everywhere he searched.<\/p>\n Shortly thereafter the second page returns. The King asks: \u201cWhat is the state of the Kingdom?\u201d The second page replies that \u201cthe Kingdom is covered with nothing but beauty\u201d. He has the flowers with him to show it.<\/p>\n The King somehow make the point to those in the court that we see that which we seek; not only in nature but in each other. Of course that changed everything and from then on (as I recall) the Lords and Ladies interacted respectfully with each other, seeking to see the best in those around them. Great story. Applicable to today. Hope you can help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am looking for a Children\u2019s book, from the 70\u2019s or 80\u2019s. It does have pictures. It may be a Golden book, but that is just a stretch of my memory. The book is about a Kingdom in strife. Lords and Ladies are backstabbers and no one is happy. The King is fed up with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,3,19],"tags":[107,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6924,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}