Moses by Carole B. Weatherford The book, Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. by Carole Boston Weatherford, should be on everyone’s reading list. Harriet Tubman was so brave to try to run away from slavery all alone. But she wasn’t all alone, because God was with her. She could talk to God when she was afraid and God always answered with words that helped her to be strong. She was helped along the way by Christian people, especially from
The Donkey’s First Christmas by S. T. Schroder is a fun tale about a stubborn donkey that carried baby Jesus’ mother to Bethlehem the night Jesus was born. The rebel donkey is easy to love because he is portrayed so well, both in the text and in the illustrations. On the cover the illustrations portray a winter scene with falling snow, though this is not carried out throughout the story. I am a little confused as to whether the illustrator intended
by Deborah Hopkinson, il. by James Ransome One of my favorite children’s picture books is Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Clara, a very young slave girl was separated from her family and sold to another plantation to work in the fields. She learned to sew and used her talent to create a quilt that helped many slaves escape to freedom. I feel a connection to Clara with my vision for Bible quilts for children’s beds. Just as Clara’s quilt pointed
My friend, Kathryn Frasier, just posted in her Facebook notes something I wish I had written. With her permission I am posting it here for my readers. What a great book for summer (or anytime) reading! This Summer’s Must-Read Non-Fiction (book review by Kathryn Frazier) I just finished this summer’s must-read nonfiction: true stories of ordinary men and women of faith whose lives intertwined with abusive priests and religious hypocrites. The book opens with a depressed woman, scorned because she does not live up
Ahhh! A day after my own heart. As a child I loved to listen to my mother read from a favorite children’s book of poetry. Later I recall her reading Tom Sawyer to us. She read like she loved what she was reading. The first year I taught school I fell in love with reading aloud to my students. I subscribed to the Weekly Reader Book Club and read the books to my second grade class. Another year I bought a