Character Development
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Sonia And The Biggest Block Tower Ever
$14.99This TGC Kids Book Teaches Children That Their True Worth and Identity Are Found Only in Christ
Sonia dreams of being just as talented as the other kids in her class. Hoping to impress her teacher, she constructs a tower using blocks. As she imagines it growing taller and taller, she eventually incorporates books, a fire truck, boxes of crayons, and even a golden hamster! When she snaps back to reality, she is disappointed to find that her tower is not nearly as impressive as she had imagined.
We all long to feel special. We seek recognition for our efforts and validation for who we are. This easy-to-understand story, with winsome language and colorful pictures, helps kids ages 3-7 understand that their value doesn’t come from the approval of others or the success of their actions but from the unconditional love of God in Christ. A TGC Kids book.
*Written for Kids Ages 3-7: Accessible story accompanied by colorful illustrations to keep kids engaged
*Teaches Kids an Important Life Lesson: Helps little ones understand their worth is not found in the approval of others but in the love of God in Christ
*Includes a “Note to Kids” from the Author: Kathryn Butler helps young readers connect Sonia’s story and the message of the gospel to their own lives
*TGC Kids Series: Teaches kids biblical truths while engaging their hearts and imaginations
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Pocketful Of Wonder
$17.99Invite Kids to Delight in the Wonder All around Them
In a world increasingly dependent upon screens and technology, it’s as crucial as it is countercultural to help kids capture the natural joys and treasures each day holds. Written and illustrated by mom of four, former teacher, and award-winning author Amanda Dykes, this family-friendly field guide offers fifty low-prep or no-prep hands-on activities that invite children and their caregivers to spot the wonders of God’s creation. Taking a multisensory approach, each entry:
*incorporates physical activity, art, music, poetry, exploration, Scripture, and prayer
*appeals to a vast array of personalities, interests, learning types, and abilities
*offers tools to see and magnify the meaning God has woven into this world
*fills little hearts with hope while pointing to a Creator who loves them very muchSmall in size but big in impact, A Pocketful of Wonder is an adventure-filled guide that encourages parents, caregivers, and young children to see and explore our amazing world.
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Very Best Baseball Game
$14.99“We’re all made in God’s image with different gifts and different challenges. Some people need more help than others. But when God’s people work together, we make up the Body of Christ.”
When Carson wakes up one Saturday morning, his mom reminds him it’s his day to volunteer at a baseball game. But this baseball game is different. The team Carson is helping is called the Challengers, and it’s made up of kids with all different kinds of disabilities. Carson and other typically-abled kids partner with the Challengers to help them play the game. Throughout the morning, Carson learns about selflessness, humility, kindness, and God’s plan to use all of us exactly how He made us.
Based on a real baseball team, The Very Best Baseball Game is a sweet, endearing story that helps families begin conversations about disability, empathy, and God’s design for every person. People aren’t all made the same, but we are all made in God’s image. Illustrator Anastasiya Kanavaliuk depicts a wide representation of joyful kids with disabilities while author Katie Blackburn tells a story that’s sure to warm your heart.
By the time Carson is heading home in his car, he understands that every person is valuable regardless of their abilities and deserves to be treated with dignity, kindness, and respect. It’s the best baseball game he ever played.
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Your Magnificent Mouth
$14.99Empower kids ages 3+ to connect the gospel to their own actions and attitudes! From creation and fall to redemption and sanctification, this colorful rhyming storybook captures the beauty of the gospel message through simple, practical, rhyming language and illustrations that children will love to engage with.
Focusing on the way we use our mouths, Abbey Wedgeworth helps children to see that God gave their words real power, and that this power can be used to heal or to harm. But we’re not left on our own to do the right thing–we can look to Jesus as our example, ask God for forgiveness when we mess up, and receive the help of the Holy Spirit as we use our mouths for God’s glory!
With bright illustrations and fun rhymes, this storybook will inspire and equip your children to follow Jesus in word and deed.
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Frogs Rainy Day Story And Other Fables (Expanded)
$24.99Teach biblical values to our next generation.
Frog’s Rainy-Day Story and Other Fables includes nine entertaining and colorfully illustrated fables for the whole family. These stories instill important principles from God’s Word and teach children sound values and practical life lessons. It’s an ideal way for parents, grandparents, and Christian educators to instruct the next generation in a biblical worldview and Christian character.
These imaginative tales address topics such as pride and humility, trust and obedience, finding true joy, truth versus lies, selfishness, faith, and wisdom. The lively animal characters in these thought-provoking fables will become fast friends and everyday teachers for children and grandchildren in the home, church, and classroom.
Each story ends with relevant quotes from the culture, which are contrasted with passages from the Bible. There are also discussion questions for each fable that make the book an ideal learning resource for family devotions, home school studies, and Sunday school classes.
*What is Frog to do when the letters he is using to write a story begin marching off the page?
*How will Gander spend his days when an invitation from the king upsets his plans?
*Discover what choices our animal friends make. See what happens next. What would you do?Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Abigail Gets Left Out
$12.999-year-old Abigail can’t sing, and she can’t dance. So when her friends start rehearsing a musical performance, Abigail feels very much left out and self-conscious. Isn’t she good at anything? Doesn’t anybody want to be her friend?
Jesus does! When Abigail reads Psalm 139, she realizes that Jesus made her wonderfully, just the way she is, so she doesn’t need to worry about not being good at musical things. And when she encounters John 15, Abigail learns that Jesus loves her perfectly and empowers her to be a loving friend, even when others let her down.
As Abigail sees what a wonderful friend Jesus is, it transforms her other friendships–and it ends up transforming the girls’ musical performance too!
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How Big Is Grace
$12.99Even toddlers can learn about God’s grace!
It’s never too early to help kids learn about the undeserved grace God gives to followers of Jesus. This book from the Toddler Theology series teaches kids to answer basic questions about sin, forgiveness, and grace. Kids will learn that although no one deserves God’s forgiveness, God made a way for anyone who believes in Jesus to receive it. Because of sin, our relationships with God are broken. But because of God’s BIG grace, those relationships can be healed.
Much like a catechism, this question-and-answer-style board book helps toddlers understand God’s grace at a basic but rich level. Each spread uses beautiful illustrations to help kids pair the question’s answer with bright, memorable images. The questions are simple, and the answers are short and easy to memorize, giving even toddlers the tools they need to answer their budding questions about theology.
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Bedtime Blessings For Little Ones
$16.99This heartwarming picture book helps parents tuck their little ones in each night with sweet words of spiritual truth to fill young hearts and minds.
Every Christian parent wants their children to grow up knowing that God loves and cares for them. In these 18 heartfelt blessings, popular artist and author Emily Lex gives moms and dads biblical wisdom and encouragement to share with their little ones. Each blessing is accompanied by a key Scripture verse and delightful watercolor art from Emily.
Bedtime is a great time to remind little ones that. . .
*they are special treasures
*God is with them wherever they go
*they are perfectly and wonderfully made
*they weren’t created with a spirit of fear, but of power and love
*God’s love for them is boundlessLovingly written and illustrated, Bedtime Blessings for Little Ones gives families a special way to end each day and helps children feel safe, secure, and peaceful as they drift off to sleep.
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Coop Learns He Can
$16.99Coop dreams of doing big, important things like his older siblings do. He is excited to go off-roading with Joy, a Jeep, but as a MINI-Cooper, he can’t keep up. Coop becomes sad that he isn’t built to climb rocks and fling mud like his sister and wonders if the Bible verse they had been memorizing about being fearfully and wonderfully made applies to him. When Joy gets stuck and needs her brother’s speed and agility to rescue her, Coop realizes that God did give him special talents of his own.
The third book in The Wheelies series, written by Sarah Reju and illustrated by Tania Rex, Coop Learns He Can will show children ages 3-8 that God made each person unique and special with their own purpose.
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Good Shepherd And The Stubborn Sheep
$19.99The Good Shepherd and the Stubborn Sheep is a humorous and heartwarming picture book about God’s unconditional love. This story beautifully captures the essence of Psalm 23, showing the importance of trusting God, our Good Shepherd, with our lives.
Meet George, a silly and sometimes stubborn sheep living happily under the care of a Good Shepherd. But when shearing time comes, George decides it’s time to make a run for it, and soon finds himself on a journey full of unexpected disappointment, discomfort, and danger. Ultimately, he finds rescue and learns why he really does need a shepherd.
The Bible is full of references to sheep and shepherds, but what does it mean to be a good shepherd? And how are we like sheep? The Good Shepherd and the Stubborn Sheep uses an unforgettable character and riveting story to bring biblical truth to life for kids and illustrate the many comforting and loving attributes of God.
The Good Shepherd and the Stubborn Sheep is perfect for:
*Children ages 4 and up
*Family devotions and bedtime reading
*Discussions about the meaning of Psalm 23, the parable of the lost sheep, and how God is always with us
*Sunday school lessons and church libraries
*Easter baskets, baptism or First Communion gifts, birthday gifts, and other gift-giving opportunities
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Spring Sings
$14.99Spring’s song is coming again, and award-winning recording artist Ellie Holcomb knows that we’re all invited to sing along! Her lyrical words encourage young readers to watch as the world slowly wakes-from the trees and flowers to the birds and bunnies-and to know that the new life of spring also retells the story of God’s Son.
Along with this board book, Ellie will release companion children’s music. Her joyous celebration encourages young readers to delight in God’s gift of springtime and to realize that each bird and bloom is a reminder that His love can make all things new.
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Mostly What God Does Is Love You
$19.99Mostly what God does is love you.
What if we shared this simple, beautiful, Biblical truth with our children from the youngest of ages-how different would we be? How wonderfully could this shape our perspectives from childhood on, knowing that the God who made all the wonders in creation-who hung the stars in the sky, who tells the wind where to blow-knows your name and loves you oh so very much?
From #1 New York Times bestselling author and TODAY show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, this beautifully illustrated picture book showcases the wonders of nature, the beauty of God’s creation, and most importantly, how very loved you are by God. Mostly What God Does is Love You reminds children (and adults) of God’s great love for them, how very cherished they are by the creator of the universe, and how in turn, they can share that same love by being kind and compassionate to others.
With its awe-inspiring and charming illustrations and a poetic, relatableand age-appropriate message, Mostly What God Does is Love You is the perfect way for adults reading Savannah’s bestselling book Mostly What God Does to share this all-important reminder with the children they love-thatthe vastness of God’s love is all for them and how they can share it with others as freely as God shares his love.
Mostly What God Does Is Love You:
1. Reminds children that God is always with them, loving them unconditionally.
2. Is perfect for family reading, bedtime story, school or daycare story time.
3. Makes the perfect gift for birthdays, Easter, graduation, and other celebrations and gift-giving occasionsThis sweet, uplifting book is sure to leave a lasting impression on children and adults alike, reminding them of the most important thing in the world-God’s enormous love for us-and how we, too can spread love and kindness, just like God does.
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