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A True Fairy Tale
Cinderella is a great story, but after the last page is turned, little girls can’t look forward to the tale coming true when they grow up. It’s just “for pretend.” Now girls ages four to nine can unveil the reality of their royal calling! His Little Princess shows them that they are not pretend princesses…because God is for real! When a grown-up sits down to read out loud these touching love letters, girls will come to understand and embrace how much they are truly loved and adored by God, the King of kings!
A Daughter of the King
Every little girl dreams of being a princess. And for the one who trusts in God, the Word heralds a most beautiful truth: She is the chosen daughter of the King of all kings. She is a true princess!
Here is a majestic gift for that special young one in your life—personal letters written from her King. Each day a new letter will inspire her to live and act like the radiant princess she is!
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“If we can help our daughters learn from a young age that they are God’s chosen princesses, we will help them to win the identity struggles they will face as teens. While we have influence in their lives, we need to deposit in their hearts and minds how much they are loved and how important they are in God’s kingdom. This book will give girls godly confidence that they are chosen by the King of all kings. Read one each day to them and watch them grow into the princesses they are destined to be!”
—Sheri Rose Shepherd
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A WONDERFUL, "must-have" book for young girls!.......2007-07-23
Rarely do I ever just go on and on about a book as I read tons and our family/kids love to read as well, but this is the most precious book for young girls and their relationship to God you will EVER find. It is a WONDERFUL, WONDERFULLY touching book that is full of truth and may have you in tears as the love of God for your daughter just pours out of each page.
Each page is set up with God's letter from Him to her on the left side along with a verse, and her prayer in response on the right. There are quite a few pages and it is bound well and beautifully printed.
Perfect for reading at night to your child rather than just giving to them to read on their own, it's one-page 'chapters' are perfect for bedtime, or before prayers, or as a mother or dad devotional time with your child. My daughter actually asked me to read it with her at bedtime - Me reading the God portions and her the prayers in response.
You might worry that this is just another "Prncess-marketing gimmick book" to make money ala Disney, but that couldn't be farther from the truth! This is the meat of God's word and His desire to know your little girl...It will cause her to read the Bible and want to know God better. I too, worried a bit that it would follow that same, self-centered, "You are my princess" theme that we are always fighting against, but soon realised that this book offers many of it's own correctives to this kind of thinking. Good of the author to realise this and address it early on!
We are so looking forward to the boys version, "God's Mighty Warrior" that should be coming out soon by the same author. If you have boys it will probably be as good as this one! Buy it, read it, give tons of them away. It is easily the best $$ I have spent on a book in a long time.
His Mighty Warrior: A Treasure Map from Your King
Thank you Sheri for a wonderful book!!!
A Treasure!.......2007-05-09
An invaluable tool to teach a girl to love the Word of God. Each section is a letter from God (the King) to his daughter (the princess). Each is based on a scripture that teaches about Godly character and ends with a prayer. I've found it a wonderful way to teach my daughter to understand God's Word and treasure it as well. A must-read for every true princess!
EXCELLENT!!!!.......2007-03-08
What a great book! Tell your little girl that she is God's little princess. NOT A PRETEND PRINCESS! We are all God's princesses! My twin girls love it, they are 6 years old. It's almost like a bible study for little girls. A++++
His Little Princess.......2007-01-21
I would highly recommend this book for young girls. Very encouraging and uplifting.
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- A fantastic story for all ages.
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A Coach's Letter to His Son
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Baseball is a game steeped in tradition, played from backyards to major league stadiums, and cheered by millions of fans. But at its most intimate and fundamental level, baseball is a game grounded in fathers and sons: in playing catch in the twilight hours after supper, in sons standing before old fences swinging at their father's pitches. Creative Editions is proud to present
A Coach's Letter to His Son, a nostalgic tribute to the game.
The words of Mel Allen and sketches and photo-realistic paintings by John Thompson combine to convey a coach's story and regrets to his son, a baseball player not yet in his teens. Reflecting on his own baseball childhood, the importance of family, and the high-pressure atmosphere that surrounds youth sports at even the earliest levels of competition today, the narrator comes to reassess his priorities and rediscover the purity of baseball. In an age when "America's pastime" is increasingly defined by statistics, awards, and championships,
A Coach's Letter to His Son is a powerful and touching reminder of the heart of the game.
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A moving read.......2007-02-20
A Coach's Letter to His Son is a short book. I read it in one sitting but I found that its simple yet powerful message resonated with me for the remainder of the day.
Reading this book brought back memories of playing pick-up baseball at my local park, perhaps the most enjoyable time of my youth. Allen's story captures the loss of that simple joy for the game that so many kids experience when they are exposed to overzealous coaches and parents who make baseball too much about winning and not enough about having fun.
The longing to recapture the pure joy of the game of baseball is what makes A Coach's Letter to His Son such a meaningful book.
Beautifully illustrated by John Thompson, A Coach's Letter to His Son is a must-read for parents, players and coaches alike.
A fantastic story for all ages........2006-09-23
This book is an elegant and beautiful account of an experience so common in modern America. Childhood sports are no longer, sadly, about the kids. They are about winning, and nothing else. No longer are kids allowed to experience the game for what it really means, rather they are forced by their parents and coaches to care only about being better than others. This sort of enviroment contributes nothing to children, it only damages their capacity for enjoyment. This book gets at the core of the meaning of baseball and shows that just because the major leagues are a job, doesn't mean that little league has to also be corrupted. Reading this book made me take a step back and see that childhood sports need to be returned to their origin, an origin that was pure; sports used to be about fun, why can they no longer be?
An essential read for coaches of kids or parents, you will thank yourself for reading this book and hopefully realize the beauty of the game once again.
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Today, more grandparents are taking an active role in the lives of their grandchildren with autism. This loving book began as a series of love letters from grandfather to grandson and grew into one of the most touching and insightful books we have to offer.
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A Touching, Insightful Look at What it Means to Be Autistic.......2000-11-03
If I knew where Earl P. Martin lived, I would drive to his home and give him a fierce bear hug.
"Dear Charlie" is based on letters from a grandfather to his Autistic grandson, Charlie. As Mr. Martin shares in his letters his thoughts on what it will mean to Charlie to grow up Autistic, he paints a loving, well thought out sourcebook to accompany his grandson through life as a grandfather realizes that Autism has not made Charlie disabled, it has simply made him differently abled.
I am delighted that the publisher had the good sense to publish a book that goes beyond the one in a million miracle cures that so often form the bulk of the better selling books on Autism.
Mr. Martin's letters to Charlie provide parents a valuable resource to open a dialogue with the higher functioning autistic child which reassures him that it is ok to have Autism. For the older Autistic child who can read, I can't imagine a better tool for boosting self esteem than urging him to read this book.
This is one Autism source book I know I'll reach for again and again as I lead my two Autistic sons towards puberty and adulthood.
Thank you Mr. Martin for showing our children that they can live well with Autism. Bravo!
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The Roosevelt family, with its rambunctious father and six children, invaded and occupied the White House as no other family has since. Roosevelt was a wonderful father, writing to his children, guiding them, playing with them and loving them as do only the best fathers. Long out of print, these personal letters are warm, wonderfully wise and witty--the best things Teddy Roosevelt ever wrote. Photos.
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Delightful!.......2003-05-24
"A Bully Father" is a delightful insight into a remarkable American family. The first portion of the book is a biographical narrative of Theodore Roosevelt, with a strong emphasis on his family life. The remainder is a collection of letters from TR to his children. Although the letters are identified by topic, they are otherwise left to speak for themselves.
These letters were generally written to his children while they were away at school. The letters are treasures from the Age of Letters. Things which today would be communicated in person, by telephone or e-mail were, in TR's day, communicated and preserved in correspondence. The letters cover a wide variety of topics. Events of daily life of the Roosevelt family and evaluations, favorable and unfavorable, of the child constitute the majority of the letters. Nothing was too small for TR's attention. Horse and carriage rides, playing with children or wrestling with Japanese wrestlers, his tennis partners and White House visitors are all recorded for our enjoyment. TR also used these letters to give vocational advice as well as to comment on public events of the day. TR also expounds on his views on literature and history, as well as his views on family values. The classical literature which he and "Mother" read to the children are mind boggling!
This is a book which is enjoyable to read and also makes you think. TR's relationship with his children and his interactions with them provide a standard against which we can measure our own lives. Read this book and treasure it!
A shining light across the century.......1999-01-23
Teddy shines through as a true inspiration to all fathers. I read this book, and then "played bear" with my children.
The Essence of Fatherhood.......1998-06-28
The greatest legacy a father can leave the world is his children. Theodore Roosevelt is more popularly remembered in history as the great Trust Buster and the hero of San Juan Hill, but his greatest contribution was something that until this book, has been overlooked, the impact of a loving and nurturing father on his children.
Reading this book, one gets the unmistakable impression that Teddy Roosevelt was infinitely more concerned about the lives of his children than he ever was about the affairs of the Presidency. Readers are left with the impression that at a moments notice, he would give up everything for the welfare of even one of his kids. What a legacy to leave for history.
In an age where families are under siege and children are becoming more like trophies that are displayed, Teddy Roosevelt's letters to his children shine as a beacon pointing us to what being a parent is all about, raising, loving, and nurturing our children.
What ever happened to writing letters? The art of letter writing has all but passed away. In T.R.'s time reading letters was a family event, something that was eagerly anticipated by the entire family. Today's family is forced to deal with the constant barrage of faxes, e-mails and cellular phones. Family conversation has been reduced to digital bytes rather than meaningful conversation. George Washington may have been the father of our nation, but Teddy Roosevelt had a far more lasting impact, he was a father to his children.
Terrifically humanistic view of one of our great presidents.......1996-11-19
Here was one of my heroes, doing the un-heroic: Writing
letters to his children (usually the older boys, Kermit and
Archie). And, what letters they are! Full of advice, careful
remonstrance and laughter. Theodore Roosevelt's love of
life and his children come through loud and clear. If you
are a serious reader of history and/or treasure the legacy
of Theodore Roosevelt, as I do, get your hands on this book.
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Letters From Palestine: A Volunteer In A Refugee Camp Writes To His Children: Second Edition
Fabrizio Galimberti
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In 2003, a self-described "sedate and white-haired Italian economist" decided to volunteer in a Palestinian refugee camp. What followed were repeated trips, documented in these letters, to Aida Camp in the West Bank to support and experience the lives of Palestinians young and old.
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Making a difference.......2006-11-06
This book takes you through the writers journey as he learns of the situation in Palestine and the lives of the children in a refugee camp. Honest and open and keen to communicate his feelings on his experiences, Fabrizio gives the reader and flavour of his time in Bethlehem. A good introduction to the conflict and some ideas for how people can get involved.
Review by New York Times best-selling author Ellen Tanner Marsh. .......2006-08-05
Review by New York Times best-selling author Ellen Tanner Marsh.
One of the great tragedies of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is that there are no real winners on either side. While much news is focused on Hamas and the actions of terrorists, not enough attention targets the desperate struggle of the Palestinian people who feel they are living in exile. Since August 2003, economist and author Fabrizio Galimberti spent time volunteering in a Palestinian refugee camp. While there, he chronicled his experiences, e-mailing them home to his grown children, as if he were "watching history through a keyhole." And now, at their urging, he has collected these experiences into a shocking, stirring, and heartbreaking book.
Through Galimberti's eyes, we see and hear and experience the grief, joy and unquenchable life force that is Palestine. He takes us to the Aida Camp, which currently holds over 4,000 people, and to the Old City of Hebron, the only place in Palestine where Israelis and Palestinians live side by side, and where suffering and injustice are rampant. Here, Galimberti reports, the Palestinians do not dare to go out at night and their children must be accompanied to school to ensure they are not attacked by settlers' kids. Galimberti believes that this is a deliberate attempt to make living so uncomfortable for the Palestinians that they will leave. But where, he wonders, can they go?
With the addition of powerful and often heartbreaking photographs, Galimberti provides an intimate look into a terrible situation. All royalties from his work will be donated to the Lajee Center of Aida Camp in Bethlehem. Meanwhile, Letters From Palestine is a brave and moving historical record of a people living with incessant flare-ups of violence and with the terrible slow trampling of their spirit.
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Dearest Chums and Partners: Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children : A Domestic Biography
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The Diary of Anne Frank taught the value of love and forgiveness and became a worldwide, enduring bestseller. In Dear Cara: Letters from Otto Frank, the story continues and expands. Through his letters, Otto, the only survivor in the family, became a treasured wise friend to thousands of young people around the world giving simple, honest responses to their questions. Cara, a young American girl, kept his letters, followed his advice, and honored Otto as her surrogate father. Nearly 20 years later, as a grown woman and mother, she journeyed to Amsterdam to see the home where Anne had been hidden in an attic for two years before her murder. Cara listened to some of the holocaust stories from the Dutch people who had sheltered the Franks, then traveled to Switzerland to fulfill a life-long dream to finally meet her mentor and his second wife in Switzerland. She embraced the tender, frail old man who had been able to live Anne's belief that "In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart." He had not forgotten those who had betrayed their wartime hiding place, nor did he wish for revenge. He had managed, through his own radiant spirit and the poignant words of his dead daughter, to embrace the best in people and forgive those who had been the worst. Cara and Otto, generations apart, know love can bloom in every culture through the most painful of times and their brief coming together was the best of times. Dear Cara: Letters from Otto Frank captures the horrors of war in Europe and the tumultuous postwar decades in America. Most of all, it shares the treasures of love in all its manifestations. Otto is a beloved teacher, and Cara really listens from her heart: each is a blessing for the other. This story tells it honestly as their private letters reveal their true selves and bridges the gap between their ages, cultures and life experiences. Dear Cara: Letters from Otto Frank is a "keeper," a book for young and old readers. PUBCOMMENTS: The Diary of Anne Frank, one of our enduring inspirational books, was written by a young girl who died in a Nazi concentration camp in World War II. Otto Frank, her father and the only family survivor, motivated people all over the world to carry on Anne's message of love and hope in their own lives. Otto never wanted Anne remembered as a victim but as a living spirit through her words. A generation later, a young American girl began conversations with Otto through letters reflecting her own chaotic teenage years and the violence in America in the 1960s and '70s. His responses helped her mature into a loving, trusting woman. Cara Weiss Wilson wrote this book from her extraordinary correspondence with Otto and the inspiration she drew from it. He validated her need to be heard and respected; he became her mentor, her wise "grandfather," as he was for so many others. He taught the importance of tolerance and true spirituality, focusing on the power of love, not revenge. He said, "If the world were ending tomorrow, I would still plant a tree today." He truly lived his message. Cara's twenty-year correspondence with Otto culminated in a memorable meeting shortly before his death, and influenced the rest of her turbulent life. Her remarkable book helps others lead fulfilling lives and renews our faith in the possibility of forgiveness and optimism.
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From Girl to Woman (With a Very Special Mentor).......2001-04-01
"I received your kind letter and thank you for it. It was very nice of you to send me your photo, so that I have a better impression of you as a person..."
So begins Otto Frank's first letter to a young American girl in 1957, a suburban California girl named Cara as much in the mainstream of American society as the pop songs she listens to on the radio. That girl had read Anne's diary, had been deeply moved by it, and had written to Anne's father.
He wrote back.
Cara wrote to him again. Otto wrote back. She wrote again. He wrote again. And so on and so forth...for decades. They grew close. Cara faced all the same questions we face, about school, love, marriage, child-rearing, politics, family. But she had a very, very special mentor.
This book is her story of that relationship. Yes, it's a remarkable pairing. But it's also a remarkable tour through the last half of the 20th century, through the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam, the Watergate days, too many wars in the Middle East; all reflected in a single woman's coming of age. The letters back and forth are always revealing and quite often gripping. They are about private troubles and public issues. And when Cara, as a woman, goes to visit an ailing Otto, by now an old man, it would take a reader with a hard heart indeed not to feel a lump in the throat, at least. Then, when Otto her a collection of something that takes us, the reader, completely over the edge, in the best possible way.
We recommend this book to anyone, of any age. It is just special.
Dear Cara Offers Inspiration and Shares a Story of Love.......2000-10-16
Dear Cara is a book about a man and a woman, across the world from one another, both in miles and the lives they lead. Otto Frank, who survived the death camps of the Holocaust but lost his daughter there, shares his hope and inspiration with a young American woman whose life is unfolding. His shares his unfailing human spirit and his love with Cara, a young woman who first wrote to him at the age of 13. Throughout her life, from her teen-age years, to college to marriage to motherhood, Otto Frank is there with her, offering his support and his inspiration. He listens to Cara's dreams, her troubles, her worries and through their correspondence, she feels the joy that a young person feels when someone is listening. A young woman's voice is heard. When, as an older woman, Cara's world is turned upside down, the wisdom and hope that Otto Frank gave her for twenty years, sustains her through her pain and provides her the support she needs to endure and accept, and ultimately, to grow from her own experiences. This book is must-read for young people and for adults who believe, or want to remember, through pain and turmoil, how important and precious hope, and love, is.
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1919. This is a wonderful collection of letters Theodore Roosevelt wrote to his children and a few other individuals. Throughout all the letters runs his inexhaustible vein of humor. No matter how busy Roosevelt was at the time, this devoted father and wholehearted companion found the time weekly to send a long letter of delightful character to his absent children.
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More than Words.......2001-03-20
Theodore Roosevelt not only wrote to his kids, but also drew great pictures. One of his best in here is a drawing of TR playing tennis. Before widespread telphones, and certainly prior to cell phones, people seemed to dash off notes to each other more frequently. One school of TR thought says Teddy simply loved writing to his kids in profusion. The revisionist school says, of course he did, since he was so frequently away.
TR's letters to his son Quentin are especially touching, since later on Quentin took a German gunner's bullet through the head over France, driving TR into inconsolate murmerings lamenting the loss of his "Quentee-Quee." The development of these nicknames is chronicled in these letters.
For whatever reason TR wrote them, they read very movingly. TR's own namesake, Ted Jr., tried to pull off the same thing with his kids, documented in another out-of-print book written by Ted Jr (before his early heart attack during WWII) called "All in the Family." Wherein little Ted's mistake is to too slavishly imitate big TR's way of organizing walks, going camping, and dashing off notes. So there is something inimitable here, which should also caution the modern reader from hankering too quickly to start writing letters-a-plenty. But the picture drawing might be OK. What kid wouldn't like a few more scribbled pictures from their dad?
So at least look at the pictures here. Unlike Ronald Reagan's, these were done to and for TR's own kids. Not to dump on Ron, but to perhaps establish a reference point among competing versions of family dysfunction.
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