Safely Through the Night

image SAFELY THROUGH THE NIGHT
by Elena Pasquali
Illustrated by Dubravka Kolanovic

Ages: 2-5
$16.95 hard cover · 32 pages

Emily settles down to sleep with her beloved stuffed animal Cinnamon Bear, safely tucked up with Hug the quilt. When a sparkling star-beam comes tapping at the window, Emily tries to shoo it away, but she ends up winding it up like shining wool for miles and miles through and over the nighttime world, where she finds herself in the world of angels.

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Growing Green: A Young Person’s Guide to Taking Care of the Planet

imageGrowing Green: A Young Person’s Guide to Taking Care of the Planet
by Christina Goodings
Illustrated by Masumi Furukawa

Ages: 5-7
$12.95 hard cover · 32 pages

This attractive book will be appreciated for its warm exploration of an increasingly important theme. The story uses colorful pictures to illustrate the small things that underpin an environmentally friendly lifestyle-taking care of small creatures and their habitats, nurturing seeds and seedlings, picking up litter and recycling-and the whole concept is grounded in God’s command to care for all his creation.

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The Time-for-Bed Angel

The Time for Bed AngelTHE TIME-FOR-BED ANGEL
by Ronica Stromberg
Illustrated by Christina Stephenson

Ages: 2-5
$14.95 hard cover · 32 pages

This warm and funny tale is told in few words and many expressive pictures. The reader sees a busy guardian angel race around keeping a mischievous little boy safe before he finally snuggles down to sleep. This is a lovely bedtime book for all toddlers, boys and girls alike, who will reassure them of the love that encircles them all through the day and night.

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BOOK REVIEW | Journey to the Homeland

imageJOURNEY TO THE HOMELAND
by Hannah Stahlhut

Keegan is orphaned when he is only six-years-old, but a phenomenal boy, he moves from place to place, working as a servant while he seeks a permanent home. However, Keegan has a unique gift—an ability to communicate with animals—and when this ability is discovered, Keegan is usually ran out of town.

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SNEAK PEEK | There’s a Spaceship in My Tree

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Today’s Wild Card author is: Robert West and his book:  There’s a Spaceship in My Tree! (Zonderkidz - April 1, 2008)

Chapter One

Alien

Beamer was an alien. He wasn’t a ten-legged slime bag with fourteen eyes, unless, of course, you believed his big sister. Still, Beamer was an alien — no question about it. He didn’t belong here. He couldn’t even breathe here.

His mom said it was just the humidity. Sure! Methane was more like it! When they found his shriveled, oxygen-deprived body, they’d be sorry.

Now he’d been sent to some place called a cellar — clearly an alien environment. Nobody in California had a cellar.

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