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Blessing the Nephite Children/ The Holy Ghost Spotlight

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Published by Cedar Fort Genres: Children's, Picture book
Format: Hardcover
Source: Cedar Fort

About the books


“Blessing the Nephite Children”:
Snuggle up with your kids and learn about Jesus’s visit to the Nephites. This colorful board book is perfectly designed for little fingers and small attention spans. Experience the beauty of Christ’s personal love in the Book of Mormon with your little ones and come to see the ways the Savior reaches out to them today.

“The Holy Ghost”:
Get to know the Holy Ghost, from baptism on! This engaging book provides fill-in-the-blank stories, coloring pages, and other fun activities for your kids to help get them ready to receive the Holy Ghost and rely on Him for the rest of their lives. Come to understand and feel the Spirit, one of the greatest gifts from God.

About the author

Catherine Christensen graduated magna cum laude from BYU with a degree in English and editing. She worked in her dream job acquiring and editing books before switching to her other dream job of full-time mother. She is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom and has lived most of her life in England. She currently resides in Springville, Utah, with her husband and daughter. Catherine is the author of “I Can Pray Everyday” and “Emily’s Perfect Christmas Tree.”

About the illustrators

Jane Delve has been painting her whole life, starting out small with jobs as an illustrator for a local newspaper and as a muralist for a local children’s nursery. She studied art, design, and animation at a college in London and later at the University of Wales. Since then, Jane has mostly painted on commission, specializing in stylised family portraits on large canvases. She has also illustrated the children’s book Emily’s Perfect Christmas Tree and teaches local art workshops. Jane and her husband Ben have three children and live in Bridgend, Wales.
As a young boy, Jay Fontano loved to watch cartoons on TV and read comic strips in the newspaper. Now he works as an illustrator drawing funny pictures for T-shirts and illustrations for books. Jay and his wife have six children and a dog named Nacho. They live near the mountains in Utah and love to go camping and have fun together. He still watches cartoons and reads comic strips whenever he can.

“Blessing the Nephite Children”/”The Holy Ghost” blog tour schedule
 September 12: LDS and Lovin’ It
September 13: Read for Your Future
September 14: Singing Librarian Books
September 15: Making Life a Bliss Complete
September 16: My Book a Day
September 17: A.L. Sowards
September 18: Brookie Cowles
September 19: Reidhead Random-ness
September 24: Heidi Reads | Inklings and Notions
September 25: Jorie Loves a Story
September 26: Mel’s Shelves
September 27: Jorie Loves a Story
September 28: The Things I Love Most
September 29: Jorie Loves a Story
September 30: Rockin’ Book Reviews
October 1: Brooklyn Berry Designs
October 2: Little Red Reads
October 3: Wishful Endings | Eccentric Eclectic Woman

Books Our Emerging Reader Couldn’t Do Without

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As the mother of a reluctant reader, we have tried lots of texts and methods over the years to teach our son to read. After the mainstream school system tried phonics and different proven interventions, he was literally in tears with frustration each time we sat down to read. Now that we have him at home, we’ve found the following tools to be treasure. He is finally making strides on his level, at his own pace, and is self-motivated to start each day. Each child is unique and different, but for this one, these titles have made a difference in turning on his desire to learn.

 


Bob Books, Collection 1: Beginning Readers and Advancing Beginners Paperback – Box set, by Bobby Lynn Maslen


The Cozy Classics: Board books
by Jack Wang (Author), Holman Wang (Author)


The Original McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer (McGuffey’s Readers) Hardcover by William H. McGuffey

There is a workbook called McGuffey’s First Reader Workbook Christian School Edition, which has writing exercises we’ve found helpful.

We Learn About God’s People, Units 4,5 – Grade 1 (Bible Nurture and Reader Series)
by Rod and Staff (Editor)


First Steps (Pathway Reading Series, Grade 1)

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Tricks of the trade: use a book mark to help block out all lines besides the one you are working on. Read aloud together.

What resources and titles have you used for your emerging reader?

This Is My Dollhouse~ Book Spotlight

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by Giselle Potter
Published by Schwartz & Wade on May 10, 2016
Genres: Children's, Picture book
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Source: Schwartz & Wade
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A girl makes her own dollhouse in this picture book that celebrates creativity and imagination!

A little girl proudly walks the reader through her handmade dollhouse, pointing out the bricks she painted on the outside, the wallpaper she drew on the inside, the fancy clothes she made for her dolls, and the little elevator she made out of a paper cup. She’s proud of her house and has lots of fun using her imagination to play with it—until she discovers her friend Sophie’s “perfect” storebought house. Sophie thinks her house, with everything matching and even a toilet seat that goes up and down, is pretty perfect too, until both girls discover that the narrator’s handmade dollhouse is really a lot more fun.

"Celebrates the best of free play, capturing what it's like to be fully engaged and inspired." —The New York Times

"Readers will feel right at home with this cozy tribute to imagination." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred

"The realization that creative, outside-the-box artistry can be more inspiring than anything manufactured makes for a wonderful story." —Publishers Weekly, Starred

 

Author Bio

My parents and grandparents were all artists so it’s not surprising that I became one too. I spent a lot of time in my grandfather’s studio, where he let me add to his abstract paintings and music. When I was three, my parents started a puppet theater company called “The Mystic Paper Beasts” and my sister and I traveled and performed with them through out the United States and Europe. My drawings and illustrated journals from my travel and experiences with the Beasts, inspire me still and led to the children’s books “The Year I Didn’t Go To School” and “Chloe’s Birthday..and me”

I graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1994 and spent my last year in Rome with RISD’s European Honors Program. Chronicle Books then published “Lucy’s Eyes and Margaret’s Dragon;Lives of the Virgin Saints” a book of saint paintings and stories I made while I was in Rome.

After moving to Brooklyn, I got my first freelance illustration job with the New Yorker. My New Yorker illustrations inspired a lucky chain of work with many magazines and children’s books.

My first children’s book, “Mr. Semolina-Semolinus; a Greek folk tale” was published in 1997, and I have illustrated more than thirty books since then. I have illustrated stories by such authors as Toni Morrison, Mary Pope Osborne, Ursula Hegi, Mathea Harvey and Gertrude Stein. I illustrated and wrote my two most recent books;Tell Me What to Dream About and This is My Dollhouse.

I have also continued to do editorial illustration too and I currently illustrate a weekly column for the New York Times called Ties.

I live with my husband and two daughters in the Hudson Valley.