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Anne Elizabeth Neuberger grew up in a small house in a little river town in
She likes to do "homey" things, like bake bread, plant a garden, and make huggable dolls. Still, her stories are often set in places far away. One of Anne’s strongest desires is to help children in the
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To Walk Humbly: Teaching Compassion and Justice through Stories and Activities for Ages Ten through Thirteen Here Anne Neuberger offers fifty-five wonderful stories from around the world to help young Catholics connect with the social, environmental, and economic problems of children around the globe. It encourages them to accept and think of these children as family, as sisters and brothers. This is a great resource for catechetical leaders, catechists, parents, and Catholic school teachers. |
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To Love Tenderly: Teaching Compassion and Justice Through Stories and Activities for Ages Five through Nine When people reach out to others whose lives are very different form theirs, understanding and appreciation begin. This child-and-adult book is designed to begin this process. Forty-four stories of children from all over the world (Pakistan, Guatemala, Latvia, Germany, Sudan, the United States, Brazil, China, and others) help readers come to feel a bond of friendship and care with their peers in faraway places. For grades k-4. |
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Big Book of Catholic Customs and Traditions Who is Kateri Tekakwitha? Why do some people toss each other into swimming pools on June 24? How can you host a guardian angel tea party? Learn answers to these questions and many, many more ideas for sharing Catholic history, traditions and activities with children. |
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Blessed Kateri and the Cross in the Forest How did a little Mohawk child born in the 1600’s in North America, weakened, scarred and orphaned by small pox, growing up in an wilderness away from any formal education, become a great mystic and holy woman? This book tells the curious and touching story of Kateri Tekakwitha. |
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St. Therese in Jesus' Garden St. Therese of Lisieux is one of the well-known and most beloved of saints. This story tells of her childhood with four big sisters, her pet rabbits and chickens, tea parties with her father, wild tantrums, and even a fall into a pail filled with water. |
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St. Francis and His Feathered Friends Saint Francis of
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To Act Justly: Introducing Catholic Social Teaching to Children with Stories and Activities Catholic social teaching is not an extra or a frill, but an essential part of the faith, and therefore a necessary part of children’s faith formation. This child-and-adult book is filled with stories of real people who acted justly and helped change the world and real situations of children struggling in unjust situations. These stories teach the Beatitudes, and introduce the teachings of Vatican II, and seven social justice principles. Many activities and resources complete the book. |
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Welcome Jesus: an Advent Storyboard Bible Stories That Stick: Colorful storyboards and figures that cling to them, along with stories, make learning these important stories tactile, visual and fun! Includes the stories, “The Angel’s Announcement,” “Mary’s Visit to
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Jesus' Journey: a Lenten Storyboard Bible Stories That Stick: Colorful storyboards and figures that cling to them, along with stories, make learning these important stories tactile, visual and fun! Includes the stories, “Calling Jesus’ Friends,” “The Sermon on the Mount,” “Helping the Blind Man to See,” “Zacchaeus,” “Palm Sunday,” and “The Resurrection.” |
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Puppets + Kids + Bible Stories = a Creative Way to Learn Children learn best when their creativity, hands and hearts work together. This book offers them this opportunity through sixteen Old and New Testament stories and the craft of puppetry. Each story is written as a script for a puppet show. The scripts can easily be performed by children as young as seven, and creating the puppets is equally simple, by photocopying the figures in the book. Have fun creating backdrops and puppets as simple or elaborate as you choose, and then enjoy fun and educational performances. |
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Christian Beginnings: 3 Volumes Volume 1: 2000; ISBN 978-0-87973-076-5 Volume 2: 2001; ISBN 978-0-87973-076-5 Volume 3: 2002; ISBN 978-1-931709-38-5 These volumes are chockfull of stories, craft patterns, art projects, and program plans. |
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St. Nicholas the Wonder Worker On dark and cozy December nights, gather to read and savor the stories of the man who eventually became Santa Claus. Meet an extraordinary boy named Nicholas, born in
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Stories of Saints Through the Centuries: Mystics and Martyrs, Healers and Hermits, Soldiers and Seekers Throughout twenty centuries of Christianity, the world and its peoples evolved in fascinating and various ways. This book touches on some of these ways, concentrating on one century at a time. It weaves Christianity’s roles throughout these times and places with stories of saints and corresponding activities. Reflecting the great variety of cultures and eras, the saints represent many places, many temperaments, many social levels and many approaches to loving God. |
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Jane Gibbs: Little Bird That Was Caught In 1834, five-year old Jane was placed into a covered wagon without her parents’ knowledge to travel with a family she did not know. They took her through great woods and savannahs in a covered wagon, boating across Lake Michigan and up rivers until they reached Minnesota. While her new family was building a log cabin, Jane discovered that the other people already there lived in houses made of tree bark or buffalo skins and spoke a language called Dakota. And she came to love these people. From then on, Jane lived in two worlds, that of the white missionary family, and of the native people who treated her like a daughter. She spoke two languages, lived by two sets of rules, and answered to two names: Jane and "Little Bird That Was Caught." This true story tells of Jane’s amazing experiences as a child of two cultures. |
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Advent Stories and Activities: The telling of religious stories is becoming a lost art, but children still need stories to show them who they are and what their ancestors were like. It gives them a sense of their own religious history and their place within it. The Advent tradition of creating a Jesse Tree uses stories and symbols to present such a history. This book offers twenty-four stories for this custom, and directions for making seven kinds of Jesse trees. |
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The Girl-Son Induk Pahk was born at a time when most Korean girls did not go to school. Her widowed mother, convinced her daughter could learn as well as any boy, dressed Induk as a boy and sent her to school. As seven-year-old Induk walked into the classroom of boys, all eyes were on her. Would they believe she was a boy? Would they eventually guess her secret? This is the true story of the many adventures of a girl who worked hard to move beyond her own poverty and restrictions to become an impassioned educator. |
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Awards 1995 Society of School Librarians International Best Book in Language Arts, K-6 Notable Children’s Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies for 1996, Selector’s Choice Nominee for: The Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award, 1998-99; The Great Stone Face Children’s Book Award, 1996-97; The
Best Regular Column (Family Life), Catholic Press Association, 1998 |
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