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From bestselling author Gayle Boss comes an inspiring nature-based journey through Advent, celebrating the beauty of God's creation and the hope of Jesus' arrival. All Creation Waits is ideal for early readers who love nature and wonder, featuring 24 animals and insects, eye-catching illustrations, and easy-to-read text. Recommended for ages 3-8 as a wonderful gift for the Christmas season.
Title: All Creation Waits, Children's Edition By: Gayle Boss Illustrated By: Sharon Spitz Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 64 Vendor: Paraclete Press | Publication Date: 2023 Dimensions: 9.5 X 8.5 (inches) Weight: 16 ounces ISBN-13: 9781640608283 Ages: 3-12 Stock No: WW608280 |
"Beautiful, beckoning, and brimming with hope and promise, wonder and love!" Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Good Creature
From bestselling author Gayle Boss, a stunningly illustrated picture book edition of her beloved Advent book, All Creation Waits. Now young readers too will be caught up in the wonder of 24 woodland animals adapting to the season of dark and cold.
Each day of Advent a different animal shows children its own amazing way to meet the dark and cold. Wood Frog freezes into a frog-shaped cube of ice! For six months Painted Turtle doesnt breathe! Woodchuck cant be wakened, even if shaken! With each creature, children hear the refrain: The dark is not an end. Its a door. Its the way a new beginning comes.
Here is the ancient truth of Advent enacted in the lives of 24 common woodland animals and culminating in the birth of the Human One who perfectly lived that truth.
Children open the books double-page spreads as they would the doors on an Advent calendarone, and only one, each day. "Animal wonderment" reflection questions at the back of the book help children stay with just one animal, one page spread, each day. In an often chaotic "holiday season," children learn to slow down and wait with all creation.
Written in lilting poetic lines, children ages 5 to 10 will delight in the sounds of the words as well as the vivid descriptions of animals winter lives. Theyll learn the elegant intricacies of creatures as small as honeybees, as large as black bears.
Original watercolor paintings by award-winning artist Sharon Spitz convey the radiance of each creature.
With this beautiful picture book, adults and families who have loved the original edition of All Creation Waits can now welcome younger children into the practice of reflective waiting-with-creation through Advent. Perfect for grounding young ones in the wonder of wild things.
An ECPA 2023 Christmas Bestseller!
Learn more about All Creation WaitsChildren's Edition and find free resources at AllCreationWaits.com
Gayle Boss writes from West Michigan, where she was born and raised. Her lifelong love of animals and her immersion in spiritual texts and practices have melded in poems and essays that explore how relationships with animals specifically, and an attentive presence in the natural world generally, restore us to our deepest selves. Also the author of Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing, Gayle lives with her husband and Welsh corgi rescue.
"Writing about animals and the human-animal bond is the writing that enthralls me. Ive found it true, what the thirteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart said: 'God is equally near in all creatures.' Many human creatures and two corgis have loved me and encouraged my work. Beyond them, the creatures and landscapes of Michigans west coast, often wounded, open to me wonder after wonder." -- Gayle Boss
Sharon Spitz is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer currently based between Berlin and Haifa. Graduate with honors from the Department of Visual Communication in The NB Haifa School of Design (B.Des.). In her works, she expresses her love of animals and her interest in environmental issues, drawing inspiration from music, surreal art, and nature. Sharon enjoys experimenting with various techniques and styles.
"In this unique blend of Advent musings on the nature of waiting, fascinating facts about animals and birds, and magnificent artwork depicting creatures in their winter habitats, author Gayle Boss and illustrator Sharon Spitz join forces to develop one theme pointing ahead to the birth of Jesus: 'The dark is not an end. Its a door. Its the way a new beginning comes.'" The Banner
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