Easter Books

A Day at Sherri's Luz-N-Hugs Daycare book is WONDERFUL! My daughter received this book when she was 9 years old; she is now 11 years old and still loves reading it every night! She also has the Fire Drill Practice at Luv-N-Hugs Daycare that she has brought to her daycare at school and all the kids wanted a book of their own. Kids really like the creative pictures and the fun activities. It is great for the older kids as well as the younger ones. I highly recommend this book as well as the Fire Drill one.

This is a fabulous book for preschoolers and younger. It is a typical day in a daycare with a loving daycare provider named Sherri. She is a teacher, mother, housekeeper, artist, cook, caretaker and much more. If a child is new to daycare this is a good way to break them in before they start. It is a very nice sized book with colorful artistic pages. There are good lessons in the story also. If they are in daycare it is a good present to give to your provider to read to the children. They never get tired of listening to it. My kids are 7,3, and 1 and all still love it. Wonderful gift for anyone with children ( and that includes grandparents also). Thanks for taking my review. You wont be sorry for buying it.

I own the entire set of Days of the Lord which covers the Sunday readings of Years A,B,and C, Advent, Lent and Easter, and I finally got this volume which is a commentary on the Solemnities and Feasts of the liturgical year. In all of the volumes is a wealth of insight regarding the readings for any particular Sunday or holy day. It is not casual reading but simple enough for the laity to understand. I agree that this is a great resource for ministers and would creat sparks to start a homily with. But I also believe that for anyone who seriously wants to prepare and understand the Liturgy of the Word, this is an excellent tool. It puts you in the right disposition for Mass. As a Lector, it also helps me put more expression in my reading because I understand what it is all about. I highly recommend this and all the other volumes of this set.

Since the revision of the Roman Lectionary, scriptural based preaching has become the ideal and the norm. Unfortunately, many preachers find it difficult to make connections with all the readings for a given Sunday or Feast Day. The Days of the Lord series is not an exegetical commentary, but rather a guide for insights into what the Church desires to be preached from its selection of readings. The text is clear and easy to read. It provides some exegesis to ground the readings in the thought of the biblical world. But it also includes enough poetry and symbolic language to allow a good homilist to use these readings to speak to the people of today. These books are a great help in constructing a lectionary-based homily or sermon, thereby achieving the goals set forth by the bishops in their pastoral instruction on preaching.

I first took this book out of the library to share the Easter story with my daughters, ages 3 and 4. They just loved the illustrations. These made the story so alive to them they wanted to kiss away the hurt they thought Jesus was feeling. It was great to see the stained glass-like art work while reading the elegant words from the King James Bible. This book is a must for any parent trying to figure out how to present this story to young kids in a beautiful yet realistic way.

The stain-glass like illustrations and the King James text make this picture book appropriately sacred. Although the story is told briefly, many key details are nonetheless included. For example, the text mentions the last supper, doubting Thomas, and several of Christ Jesus' appearances after the resurrection, including the morning meal at the sea of Tiberias. This book is an excellent choice for parents and grandparents who want to be sure their children are biblically literate.

This is a really sweet Strawberry Shortcake book. My girls really enjoyed it.

"The Easter Bonnet Parade" is a "Strawberry Shortcake" Level 1 Station Stop book, designed to help younger readers learn to read. It's a pleasing Strawberry Shortcake story that can be enjoyed by any fan of the show.

Strawberry and her friends are celebrating Easter. They decide to put on an Easter parade --- an Easter bonnet parade to be exact. They all have hats they can decorate to make into fun bonnets, well, all except one. It turns out that Honey Pie Pony doesn't have a hat, so she's worried she won't be able to join in. But Strawberry and her friends work together to help Honey Pie.

The collaborative work of author Geraldine Elschner and artist Alexandra Junge, The Easter Chick is a cheerful and enthusiastically recommended holiday picture book for young readers, about a chick that wants to hatch out of its egg on Easter Sunday. But when does Easter come? Sometimes it is March, sometimes April - it always seems to change every year. The chick's mother learns more about the moon and teaches the chick about Easter, so that the chick can have a special birthday in this sweepingly illustrated parable.

A wonderful tale. Should be read to every child before Easter Day (and by every inquisitive adult who just doesn't get the description of the dating process of Easter listed on page 880 in the (American) Book of Common Prayer).

This book teaches, through a fictional story, the very elaborate and often confusing system used to establish the date of Easter. This story is told using a traditional Easter symbol, chick. The story uses the established animal for wisdom, the owl, to teach the mother chick how to know when it is Easter Sunday. There is a utilization of the number 3 several times. In the background of one page is the three cross scene of the curcifixation, as well. There are other usage of Easter symbols such as church bells, bunnies, and eggs (other than the chick).

The mother chick, Hilda laid, "the most beautiful egg". Hilda learned in three steps from the owl how she would know when it is Easter. Hilda taught her chick using those three steps so that her chick could hatch on Easter Sunday. "The farmers' children, who were looking for Easter eggs in the barn. A little chick just hatched! On Easter Sunday! Isn't that amazing?"

The Easter Chick is highly recommended.

My six-month old loves this book. We have several of Chuck Murphy's Razzle Dazzle books, and so far this one seems to be her favorite. The book features children searching for Easter eggs in various locations. Each page has a simple phrase that describes the picture, such as "UNDER the flowerpot" or "IN the grass", and each Easter egg is a colorful, foil-like insert on the page. It's a great book for introducing reading to a child... Colorful, lots to talk about with the child, and just the right number of pages to maintain attention. And it's a nice, chunky board book too, so I can give it to my daughter to play with independently without having her tear it.

My six-month old loves this book. We have several of Chuck Murphy's Razzle Dazzle books, and so far this one seems to be her favorite. The book features children searching for Easter eggs in various locations. Each page has a simple phrase that describes the picture, such as "UNDER the flowerpot" or "IN the grass", and each Easter egg is a colorful, foil-like insert on the page. It's a great book for introducing reading to a child... Colorful, lots to talk about with the child, and just the right number of pages to maintain attention. And it's a nice, chunky board book too, so I can give it to my daughter to play with independently without having her tear it.

This 24-page book has 18 ideas you can do with your kids at home or with your children's ministry to help them experience and understand the events of Passion Week leading up to Easter!!! It contains Bible experience ideas for preschoolers, crafts, snacks, games, and object lessons! I used several ideas for Easter this year, and the kids at my church really enjoyed the experiencing the Bible instead of just hearing stories! I can't wait to get the Christmas edition!!!

Don't let the size of this little book fool you-it is packed full of fun activities that will help each child better understand the foundation of the Christian faith: Easter. Through activities that touch on all learning styles, kids will experience four major components of holy week: Palm Sunday, Jesus Washes the Disciples Feet, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Each section contains the Bible experience, hands-on activities and fun, age-appropriate ways to understand life-application. You could use this for four weeks leading up to Easter, or over several days. This is an amazing resource that I am definitely putting to the front of the line this year. My regular curriculum can wait-kids are going to love this! The supplies and preparation are minimal, too, so your volunteers will be thrilled with leading these activities!

I bought this book for my daughter when she was 4. She loved it and asked me to read it over and over. We also did the hunt for Easter and it was so much fun. I got it out to buy a copy for Sunday School and when she saw it she was thrilled. I couldn't believe she remembered it from last year! It is a fabulous alternative to bunnies and does and excellent job of teaching the real meaning of Easter. A great way to start a new family tradition.

I loved that the emphasis of this book was on the true meaning of Easter. My kids enjoyed searching for the hidden objects ! They have asked to have the same hunt at our next Easter hunt!

This is a genre-busting book: it is a lecture series adapted and expanded into book form, an analysis and response to William James and that leaves James behind, a critique of theism, a positive portrayal of Schleiermacher, an introduction to the thought of von Hügel, and so much more.

There is a lot he covers, but Lash retraces his steps plenty of times to keep your head strait and the argument going.

I am still kind of stunned by it overall and amazed that it is not more well known. I suppose it is a little too extended and extensive for popular consumption, but that is just kind of sad. May be it is a little old and everyone has already read and I'm just getting on the bandwagon, but I doubt it.

Oh well, read the book, it is far better than whatever hesitations you might have to the contrary.

Buy this book!

It is not written in an overly accessible style. When I say--truthfully--that it will enrich your spiritual life, I do not mean that Lash has written a set of meditations on which it would be easy to focus in worship or prayer. I mean that the ideas he elaborates are profoundly important. Drawing on the thought of Karl Rahner, he offers a powerful critique of dualistic spiritualities--he focuses on William James in particular--that equate "experience of God" with a particular range of conscious feelings. He rejects the view that God can be isolated to a narrow district of experience, suggesting instead that Easter happens in the ordinary. The book is a marvelous trip through recent theology, full of useful insights. (Because it isn't especially reader-friendly, it might be worth spending time with the parallel essay in the author's 1986 collection, Theology on the Way to Emmaus.)

Buy this book!

This is an excellent map. It shows all the roads on Easter Island, all the streets in the town of Hanga Roa, the sites of the moai and other points of interest. It is detailed and easy to read. Anyone going to Easter Island should have this wonderful map.

Was very helpful. Don't go on guided tours. With this map and a rental vehicle ($60 a day) you will have a terrific time. Spend at least a week. Leave by nine a.m. and you will have the quarry to yourself. An hour later all the tour groups start arriving and by 11:30 the hoards are everywhere. With you own vehicle you will stop at lots of places not visited by the tour groups.