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They are watching and listening…
By the time this message posts, the country will have been dealing with a virus outbreak and a violence outbreak. News and radio reports, social media and conversations between family, friends and...
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Lucy and la petite nouvelle by Judith Grimme
Title: Lucy and la petite nouvelle (The Newcomer) Author: Judith Grimme Illustrator: Leslie Turner Pages: 125 Publisher: Encourage Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-9985592-0-9 Reviewed By: Janice D Green...
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Book Review: How to Defeat the Icky, Filthy, Creepy, Slimy Corona Monster by...
■Author: Robert F. DeFinis, Ed.D. ■Pages: 16 ■Publisher: Robert DeFinis, Ed.D. ■ASIN: B088NFNFTM ■ISBN-13: 978-0463072202 ■SRP: $1.99 ■Reviewed By: Cheryl Malandrinos Rating: How to Defeat the Icky,...
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Writers’ Conferences
Do you write for children and/or young adults? If you do you can’t beat writers conferences for growing in your writing life. Last weekend I attended the Online Kentucky Christian Writers Conference....
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Honoring People who Serve Us
With riots and struggles people sometimes forget to show respect and kindness. We know some people do bad things and that’s wrong. Sometimes people we trust also do bad things. God wants us to choose...
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Free Cut and Paste Bible Verse Fun: Verses About Patience
Children aren’t usually known for their patience. OK, neither am I, but I digress. Nevertheless, patience is an important virtue that we all need to foster and grow in our lives. We read in Exodus...
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Do You Know What Spiritual Gift You Have?
Holy Fourth of July Holy Fourth of July! It’s a time to celebrate our wonderful nation’s independence with parties, picnics, and fireworks. Our independence is a gift from God. So how can we show our...
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Breakfast with Jesus: A Cultural Experience
My Breakfast with Jesus I am honored to share my author friend, Tina Cho, and her latest book, My Breakfast with Jesus. It’s always been important to understand and appreciate other cultures, but...
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You’re Invited to a Virtual Book Launch!
These strange days of Covid19 present a real challenge to any author releasing a new book. With most bookstores closed or operating on limited hours of business, the challenges of launching a book into...
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Hope During Challenging Days
Yes, we are living in challenging days. Nobody in the entire world is exempt. Everyone is affected in some way, even if it isn’t directly. Many have found it difficult to focus, hard to find enough...
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Listening to the Lost Sheep
Massive heat wave, globe-trotting Saharan dust cloud, murder hornets, ongoing global pandemic, Great Depression-Era unemployment rates, nationwide protests and unrest in both small and large cities;...
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Far From Home
My friend Sarah Parker Rubio is an editor at Tyndale Publishing house. She is also a children’s author, and I had the privilege of asking her a few questions about her new picture book Far from Home....
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Magazines for Children
Grandson Rowan enjoys looking at books. He is almost three years old and is fascinated with dinosaurs, cars and trucks, animals and more. His collection of books is amazing. There are favorite stories...
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Opening Windows of Learning
Are your children daydreaming, staring out the window, never finishing their studies in the time allotted, just plain bored? Is it their fault or is there another way to approach learning that is more...
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Book Review: DIFFERENT LIKE ME by Xochitl E. Dixon
Different Like Me Different Like Me is a wonderful new picture book written by Xochitl E. Dixon and illustrated by Bonnie Lui. It will release August 4, 2020 by Our Daily Bread. This book invites us to...
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Know any Struggling Teens? Hope and an Exciting New Read
You’ve all heard the phrase, ‘When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.” Today’s post is about a young woman who has turned life’s challenges into writing projects. Her latest, Den: If You Don’t Want...
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Book Review: Jane Austen for Kids
This book provides a great way to introduce children to biographies because of the fun elements included. Enjoying a regency tea party, making a sextant, playing with puns, let children experience some...
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Raising Children to Celebrate God’s Intentional Diversity
I surrendered my life to Christ three months after I turned thirty, two years after studying the Bible and becoming a part of a church family. Yet, I still struggled with genuine relationship-building...
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Free Cut and Paste Bible Verse Fun: Verses About Knowing Jesus
Nothing in this world or the next is as important as knowing Jesus, but we must not ever confuse knowing about Jesus to knowing Him. Neither can we confuse teaching the children in our lives about Him...
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Book Review: The Hidden Village
The Hidden Village is a tender story about Manju and his discovery of an unknown village near his home in India. Pastor Dandak just gave Manju his very first Bible and showed him where to find the...
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