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In the Midst of Chaos: Caring for Children as Spiritual Practice

In the Midst of Chaos, by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, explores parenting as spiritual practice.

Both honest about the difficulties and attentive to the blessings present in everyday life, it explores how parents might use seven daily practices, such as play, reading, chores, and saying goodbye or goodnight, as rich opportunities to shape both parent and child morally and spiritually.

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Hal and the New Kid: A Book about Making Friends

Hal the hedgehog is shy. When a new kid comes around, he'll have to learn how to make a new friend so they can all have fun together.

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Uri and the Busy Day: A Book about Feeling Overwhelmed

Uri has a fun day ahead and doesn't want to miss anything. Sometimes the fun gets to be too much! Children learn ways to calm down on too-busy days.

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Maybe God Is Like That Too

A young boy asks where God is in his city. His grandma shows him that where love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are, there too is God.

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Water Come Down: The Day You Were Baptized

The sun, the cloud, the wind, the rain - all of God's creation - lend their voices to the story of how a child joins the family of God.

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Jonah and the Whale

Jonah doesn't want to obey God's call to go to Nineveh. But when he tries to run away, he ends up in the belly of a big whale!

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The Story of Christmas: A Spark Bible Story

Based on the award-winning Spark Story Bible, the story of Jesus' birth is told with colorful illustrations. Includes activities and questions to help preschoolers engage with the story.

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The Girl with Big, Big Questions

In a world that doesn't always welcome big questions, a persistent and inquisitive girl keeps asking them anyway--because asking questions is how we learn and grow.

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Jesus is Risen!: An Easter Pop-Up Book

The story of Jesus' resurrection and ascension is told with vibrant pop-ups by renowned paper artist Agostino Traini.

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So Big and So Small

A tale of how kids are both big and little--just the right size to be exactly who they're meant to be.

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In the Beginning: A Creation Story Pop-Up Book

In the Beginning combines kid-friendly text, adapted from the book of Genesis, with a colorful pop-up treatment by world-renowned paper artist Agostino Traini, whose work celebrates the earth and reminds kids of God's presence everywhere.

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The Bedtime Bible

Turn bedtime into an exploration of God's word. Featuring 46 stories retold in child-friendly language and colorful illustrations, The Bedtime Bible will become a treasured addition to your bedtime routine.

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How to Train Your Pet Brain

With humor and heart, How to Train Your Pet Brain invites kids to explore how their bodies and minds work together to process emotions. Lighthearted illustrations paired with grounded language help kids understand why their brain does what it does, teaches that big feelings are okay, and offers a strategy to help children feel calm.

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You Are So Wonderful

Featuring a diverse cast of children and adults, this joyful picture book celebrates and affirms that every child is unique and deeply loved by God.

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Finding Beauty

Beauty is far more than something you can have. It's also something you have to find. In other people. In nature. In acts of kindness. In math, and art, and music, and sports.

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Teaching Eddie to Fly

Eddie is a bird, but he can't fly! His friend Ernest, a bear, decides he's going to help Eddie learn to fly--with hilarious and unanticipated results! Along the way, both Ernest and Eddie learn some valuable lessons. Is Eddie even meant to fly? Or is there something else he's even better at?

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Stay Through the Storm

A moving meditation on the power of friendship to carry us through dark times.

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It's Not Fair!: A Book About Having Enough

Roxy Ramirez has saved up for weeks to buy a chemistry set, and now she's headed to the toy store to buy it! There's only one problem: along the way, she keeps running into friends who are in trouble, and need her to dip into her savings to help. Will she have enough money left over to buy something for herself?

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The Family Time Bible

A story Bible with devotional content at the end of every story--perfect for families to read together any time.

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Ava and the Skimpy Picnic: A Book about Sharing

Ava throws a picnic, but nobody brings enough food to share. What could make this picnic better?

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