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Title: Make Room: A Child’s Guide to Lent and Easter Author: Laura Alary Illustrator: Ann Boyajian Publisher: Paraclete Press Publication Date: 2016 ISBN: 978-1612616599 Audience: Ages 8-12 Summary:  This book creates a wonderful space for elementary children to understand the

Title: The Barefoot Book of Children Author: Strickland, Tessa and Kate Depalma Illustrator: David Dean Publisher: Barefoot Books Publication Date: October 1, 2016 ISBN: 978-1782852964 Audience: 5 – 8 years Summary: With its opening pages this book invites children (and those who

Title: The Name Jar Author: Yangsook Choi Publisher: Dragonfly Books; Reprint Edition Publication Date: October 14, 2003 ISBN: 978-0440417996 Audience: Ages 4-8 Summary:  New year, new country,  new school, the first day.  Unhei ( Yoon-hye)is nervous and excited, but for

Title: The Sandwich Swap Author: Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah and Kelly Dipucchio Illustrator: Tricia Tusa Publisher: Disney.Hyperion Books ISBN# 978-1-4231-2484-9 Audience: ages 4-9 Summary: This book shows how two friends, Lily and Salma, become closer because they make

Title: Peace Author: Wendy Anderson Halperin Illustrator(s): Wendy Anderson Halperin Publisher: Simon & Schuster Atheneum Books for Young Readers ISBN#:978-0-689-82552-1 Audience: Ages 4 and up Summary: This book explores how we can achieve peace in the world. It suggests

Title:  Living Color Author/ Illustrator:  Steve Jenkins Publisher:  Sandpiper ISBN:  978061870897 Audience:  Ages 6-9 Summary:  This is a book that shows the colors that many living creatures use each and every day in the wild.  Some of animals use colors for survival: 

As I write this, pastors, parents and church educators, are considering how to talk to their children about the events of the last few days with the murder of nine people gathered in their church sanctuary to study the Bible and pray together.  As adults, we can hardly deal with

Title: Cups Held Out Author: Judith L. Roth Illustrator: Brooke Rothshank Publisher: Herald Press (September 13, 2006) ISBN: 978-0836193169 Audience: ages 4 and up Summary: A young girl and her father cross the border into Mexico where she encounters poverty for the first time.

Title: For Pete’s Sake Author: Ellen Stoll Walsh Illustrator:  Ellen Stoll Walsh Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company ISBN: 015200324x Audience: Preschool Summary: Pete, a young alligator, worries that he is not at all like his three best friends, who are all flamingos. 

Title: Are You My Friend? Author: Janice Derby Illustrator: Joy Dunn Keenan Publisher: Herald Press (PA) (June 1993) ISBN: 978-0836136098 Audience: Ages 4 and up Summary: A beautifully illustrated story of a little boy who takes a walk in the park with his grandfather.  Along the