16 Minutes Later
This compilation of sixty-five stories and articles can be read to children, incorporated into family worship and school devotions, or read for personal inspiration. A number of essays offer plain-spoken teaching on moral purity and should be read with discretion. 219 pages. Paperback.
A Black Bear’s Story
This book takes the reader on a fascinating adventure through the first year and a half of twin bear cubs’ experiences with their mother. She is a wise mother bear, and they learn all about finding food and avoiding danger. This is an eventful and authentic tale of the bears and their forest neighbors – the moose, deer, porcupines, otters, ravens, owls, and many other wild inhabitants of the north woods. 192 pages; paperback; AB Publishing.
A Kitten Named Birthday
Six-year-old Sarah loves to play with her birthday present, a kitten she named Birthday. Because Sarah is deaf, she cannot hear when Birthday meows. In this story, she learns many things about her kitten and seeks to find the answer to her question, “Does God know sign language?”
A Little House Birthday
The winter is so long, and the girls are getting bored. Then one day Pa told Laura it was her birthday. What a fun day, with gifts from Pa and Ma and Mary! Adapted from Little House in the Big Woods. A book for young children with more illustrations than text. 32 pages; paperback; HarperCollins.
A Place for Ruth
This book tells the true life story of Ruth, a German Mennonite girl raised in Nazi Germany. Toward the end of World War II, Ruth and her siblings and mother were refugees in Denmark, while her father was a prisoner of war. Later the family was reunited, but destitute and dependent on MCC care packages from America. Read this book to see God’s work in her heart and how she eventually found a home in America. Paperback, 204 pages.