Book Resources

The mother sings to her sleeping baby: "I'll love you forever / I'll love you for always / As long as I'm living / My baby you'll be." She still sings the same song when her baby has turned into a fractious 2-year-old, a slovenly 9-year-old, and then a raucous teen. So far so ordinary--but this is one persistent lady. When her son grows up and leaves home, she takes to driving across town with a ladder on the car roof, climbing through her grown son's window, and rocking the sleeping man in the same way. Then, inevitably, the day comes when she's too old and sick to hold him, and the roles are at last reversed. Each stage is illustrated by one of Sheila McGraw's comic and yet poignant pastels. (Ages 4 to 8)

While How to Build the Grandma Connection provides practical information, Susan Bosak's bestseller Something to Remember Me By is in many ways a companion book that offers inspiration. With richly-detailed watercolor art by Laurie McGaw, this 32-page picture book about love and legacies across generations has won six national awards and sold over 150,000 copies. It tells the moving tale of the special relationship between a grandmother and granddaughter over the years. The book has touched the hearts of young and old across the country and is a bestselling gift book for children, mothers, and grandmothers.

Tony thinks it's dumb to have a picnic in October every year. He thinks it's dumb to go all the way to Liberty Island for a birthday, too. It's too far. And it's too cold. And it's just plain embarrassing. But that's what he thinks before he helps the lady who can't speak English--and before he begins to understand what the Statue of Liberty means to Grandma.

"We will make a quilt to help us always remember home," Anna's mother said. "It will be like heaving the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night. And so it was. From a basket of old clothes, Anna's babushka, Uncle Vladimir's shirt, Aunt Havalah's nightdress and an apron of Aunt Natasha's become The Keeping Quilt, passed along from mother to daughter for almost a century. For four generations the quilt is a Sabbath tablecloth, a wedding canopy, and a blanket that welcomes babies warmly into the world. In strongly moving pictures that are as heartwarming as they are real, patricia Polacco tells the story of her own family, and the quilt that remains a symbol of their enduring love and faith.

When little Maurice is brought home for the first time, his family is excited to find out who he will grow up to be. Will he become a baker like Papa? A writer like Mama? A taxi driver like Uncle Eddie? Or a gardener like Grandmother Marcela? Everyone wants to find out, but as Maurice begins to grow, his family soon discovers that he has a special gift of his own -- a beautiful voice. This is a gentle, pleasing read that will strike a chord with every child who has ever wondered about his future, and every parent who has been wonderfully surprised by it.

Retaining the original feel and poetry of the Bible, an easy-to-understand retelling presents more than one hundred of the best-known stories from the Old and New Testaments, accompanied by photographs, maps, and illustrations.

Display the new Visual Edition and the Reference Library CD-Rom along with the updated classic editions. With over 4,000,000 copies already sold, this could be the most profitable space in your store!

The classic work on the techniques, language and interpretation of icons in the context of theology and faith. Commentary and analysis of the main types of icons. Lavishly illustrated, with 160 pages of text with drawings, 13 b/w and 51 color plates.

The Young Falcons is, perhaps, the best magazine for young people in the Orthodox Church (or anywhere for that matter) that I have come across. It is produced by the Serbian Orthodox New Gracanica Metropolitanate and edited by V. Rev. Fr. Thomas Kazic. It is always a pleasure to report another step forward taken by Orthodox Christian people. This short revue of the magazine, "Little Falcons" is a record of just such a step. The magazine claims to be "bringing our Orthodox Faith and heritage together." How is this to be done? By being fun, educational, interesting, while teaching the traditional Orthodox piety. We're sure that Little Falcons is so interesting that parents, grandparents, older brothers and sisters, all will find themselves caught up in all the "goodies" this magazine has to offer. It is no wonder. Little Falcons is so well organized from the front to the back cover, that it almost seems to have just "fallen off the press!"  For more information, please write to: Little Falcons P.O. Box 371 Grayslake, IL 60030

This charming, beautifully illustrated story for children and adults demonstrates how small acts of kindness, in this case a boy hugging his mother, can lead to great acts of love.

The classic Christmas tale in an elegant new vertical trim size, with completely new notes from the author and the illustrator and a CD narrated by James Earl Jones. Jonathan Toomey is the best woodcarver in the valley, but he is always alone and never smiles. No one knows about the mementos of his lost wife and child that he keeps in an unopened drawer. But one early winter's day, a widow and her young son approach him with a gentle request that leads to a joyful miracle. The moving, lyrical tale, gloriously illustrated by P.J. Lynch, has been widely hailed as a true Christmas classic.

The prophets are some of the most revered figures in the Hebrew and the Old Testament Bibles. In this beautifully illustrated book for the whole family, Marianna Mayer explores the life and prophetic messages of each of the major and minor prophets, offering a picture of the historic time in which they prophesied, along with a sampling of their words and visions. This handsome book was carefully researched and written so that it can be appreciated by Jewish and Christian readers alike, and a treasure trove of classic paintings adds greater inspiration to these prophets' timeless message.

A superb tool to help parents explain in a child's language how Orthodox Christians pray, make the sign of the cross, light a candle, kiss an icon, and receive Communion. Preschool and up. Paperback. 32 pages.