3rd Sunday of Lent Year B: March 8, 2015 First Reading:  Exodus 20:1-17 Press Here  by Herve Tullet (Written for ages 2 and up) Comment:  While the Ten Commandments are rules for life, they are not rules with explicit consequences, although we so often portray them as such in...

Title: Wangari’s Trees of Peace Author: Jeanette Winter Illustrator: Jeanette Winter Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers; First Edition (September 21, 2008) ISBN: 9780152065454 Audience:Ages 4-8 (preschool – grade 3) Summary: Wangari Maathai was born in 1940 in Ihithe, a small...

Title: The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough Author: Katie Smith Milway Illustrator: Sylvie Daigneault Publisher: Kids Can Press (September 1, 2010) ISBN: 978-1554534883 Audience: Ages 8-12 (grades 3-7) Summary: Maria Luz and her family are poor...

2nd Sunday of Lent Year B: March 1, 2015 First Reading:  Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Whoever You Are by Mem Fox (Written for ages 3-6) Comment:  God covenanted with Abram/Abraham to make him exceedingly numerous, and the father to many nations. Abraham was a faithful follower of God...

Title:  Anna’s Heaven Author:  Stian Hole Illustrator:  Stian Hole Publisher:  Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2014 ISBN:  978-0802854414 Audience: Ages 7 – 10, particularly those dealing with loss of parent. Summary: “And Anna,” Dad says, “Hurry up now or we’ll be late.”...

1st Sunday of Lent Year B: February 22, 2015 First Reading:  Genesis 9:8-17 The Worry Stone by Marianna Dengler (Written for ages 6-8) Comment:  The Worry Stone is a beautiful book with three interwoven stories that pay homage to the Chumash Indians in Ojai Valley. In the story...

Title: That Book Woman Author: Heather Henson Illustrator: David Small Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers ISBN#:978-I-4169-0812-8 Audience: Ages 6-9 Summary: Cal and his family live on a remote farm in the Appalachian Mountains where, as the oldest son, he helps his...

Transfiguration of the Lord YEAR B:  February 15, 2015 First Reading: 2 Kings 2:1-12 Nana in the City by Lauren Castillo (Written for ages 4-8 ) Comment: In Nana in the City, a little boy goes to visit his grandmother in New York City, which is full of large buildings, big...