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New Board Book ~ God Loves Mommy & Me

April 10, 2017 By Michelle

New from TommyNELSON Publishers is this cheerful board book, God Loves Mommy & Me by Bonnie Rickner Jensen. The book is illustrated by Laura Watkins. This children’s board book is illustrated with two long ear bunnies, and cheerful colors. Young children will find the story delightful, and will likely recognize activities they do illustrated on the pages. This is a good book for stimulating conversation between the child and the loved one who is reading to her.

” God put love in Mommy’s heart, and I can feel it too…”

“God’s great love is endless – it reaches to the sky, like when I’m on the swing and Mommy helps me fly so high!”

Aren’t those words sweet and true?! As mothers, we do want the love of God to be evident in us, to flow through us to our children, husbands, and the world around us. This is another book affirming the love and purpose God has for the different roles in family life. And in this case, the role of Mommy in the raising and nurture of children. I think it is important and good that these books are being written, and that the family is being esteemed by authors and publishers at this time.

If you are interested in adding God Loves Mommy & Me to your family’s library, you can do so here. There is also a giveaway happening for the book, HERE.

This complimentary copy of God Loves Mommy and Me was provided by FrontGate Media, in exchange for my review.

What Does God Really Promise? A New Book from Tyndale

November 9, 2016 By Michelle

“What Does God Really Promise” by Carolyn Larsen and illustrated by Amylee Weeks is a simple introduction and explanation on some of the foundational promises of God found in Scripture. In the book you will find 101 questions and answers regarding God’s promises, the purpose of the church and regarding the future.

This book is laid out simply, and could be used for a daily devotion for families, for young people or for new believers. Thinking ahead to working in children’s ministry I think a book like this could be used as a springboard for additional conversations, and answers to deeper questions that kids so often bring up.

This is a new book from the Tyndale House Publishers. Check here for more information or to purchase a copy of the book for yourself, a young person, or your church library.

Thanks to Tyndale House Publishers for providing me with a complimentary copy of this book.

Favorite Board Books

April 22, 2015 By Michelle

Books are among my favorite things, so it makes sense that with a grand child, I have some favorite board books, right?! It is a habit of mine at the library, to check out the board book shelf and the picture book shelves to bring home a stack of “new” stories and old favorites. That is how I discovered Global Baby Girls. Readers of By Quiet Waters probably know, I am an all girl mom, and am starting out as an all girl Nana!

My granddaughter is definitely taken in by the beautiful photographs of baby girl faces, children from all over the world. The photographs are beautiful, for sure. What I also like is the message of this little book. Baby girls are beautiful, strong, capable, smart and can change the world! I love reading this book to Joyness, and I get tickled when her aunties are also in the room to hear the true words. Usually one or two or three “big girls” will gather around and the spirit of affirmation grows!

After I returned this book to the library, I promptly placed an order for our own copy. We keep stacks of books for sweet baby girl in a couple different rooms and I often find Global Baby Girls on the top of the stack! If you have baby girls in your life, I encourage you to take a look at this book! Global Baby Girls is also available in Spanish at Amazon!

Reading in April, Reading with Grandkids Edition

April 27, 2017 By Michelle

Have I mentioned before how fantastic it is to be a grandmother? Well it is truly fantastic in many ways. This month I introduced my 4 year old grand daughter to two old favorites, James Herriot’s Animal Stories and also, Brambly Hedge.

Those are two books I delighted in reading to my kids when they were young. And it is a treat to share these stories with Miss Joyness.

Now, of course not all my reading is of the children’s book genre. But sometimes I wonder if it isn’t better to stay on that side of the library!

In March I began listening to A Walk In the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson. Just last week I actually returned the book to Audible (did you know that you can do that? You can.). There is coarse language throughout the book, and after the chapter with the laundry mat lady I realized that I am not the audience for this book.

And as soon as I made the decision that I could stop listening to A Walk in the Woods, Tsh Oxenreider’s new book was next in the queue. At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider is a travel memoir, and I am loving the descriptions of the places and people. I love that people are as much a part of her family’s world travels as the places they visited.

Crazy Love by Francis Chan is on my kindle app and I am slowly reading this book while waiting in various lines and offices.

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave is the impulse buy when I visited Powell Books in Portland over spring break. The book is not holding my attention, but I am not thinking of abandoning it.

Ruthless Grace by Brennan Manning was mentioned by my mentor recently and I found it at the library. Brennan Manning has a way of sharing his life with Christ that breaks it down in ways that I relate so well. His books are always slow reads, as I like to roll his words around and hold them up to the Gospel. I think it is really good to get outside the Christian vocabulary, and really have to think through what is said. For example in the few chapter of this book I have been challenged with the idea that the need for clarity from God is a holdout from trust.

Reading in April has been a delightful return to some favorites for bedtime reading with my grand daughter when I get the opportunity. It has also be a month of unfinished reading. And I am good with that.

What have you been reading this month?

Reading in March 2016

March 30, 2016 By Michelle

Oh, reading in March has been delightful, deep and at times challenging. It has been a little bit of light-hearted fiction, along with some encouragement and some admonition to consider the truth in “all is grace.’ It really is fantastic how a good story can get a mind thinking, bring direction to a life, and minister to a heart. I hope that you have experienced some of that this month!

I just realized that I don’t have any photos of the books I actually read this month. The photo above, that I took in February, was of a stack of books I thought I would read in March. But that only partly happened. Only a couple of these books were read. Others were returned to the library, as renewals were not available. Those library fines sneak up on me too often!Continue Reading

The Beauty and Value of Different

September 29, 2015 By Michelle

The Prince Who Was Just Himself by Silke Schnee is a lovely children’s book that I am so pleased to have in our family’s library. Once upon a time there lived a king and a queen… so the story goes. When baby number 3 is born the family notices that he is different. This story is a gentle conversation about the beauty and value of different, of a child born with down syndrome. Over the years I’ve met several families who have experienced the sad surprise of a having a new baby, with down syndrome. And I’ve had the blessing to watch these families, as love and delight in their precious bundles grow in body and in their hearts. It is good to find authors and illustrators creating beautiful and joyful books to affirm the fact that each child is a wonder and worth life, our time and our love.

Silke Schnee is a journalist and works as a TV program maker at a public broadcaster in Cologne . She is married and has three sons . Her youngest son Noah was born in July 2008 with Trisomy 21 ( Down syndrome ) She lives in Germany with her husband, the king, and their three sons. The youngest, Noah, is the inspiration for this book.

Illustrations are by Heike Sistig is an art therapist, and was trained in special education and art. I hope that you have the opportunity to find this book at your local library, or are even inspired to purchase a copy for your family’s library. It is a treasure, one of those books to enjoy and learn from. Thank you to Plough Publishing for this complimentary copy of “The Prince Who Was Just Himself.”

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