It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!
You never know when I might play a wild card on you!
Today's Wild Card author is:
and the book:
Zonderkidz (April 13, 2010)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury has written more than forty of her Life-Changing Fiction titles and has nearly sixteen million in print. Dubbed by Time magazine as the Queen of Christian Fiction, Karen receives hundreds of letters each week and considers her readers friends. Her fiction has made her one of the country’s favorite storytellers, and one of her novels, Like Dandelion Dust, is under production for an upcoming major motion picture release. Her emotionally gripping titles include the popular Baxter family novels, the 9/11 Series, Even Now, Ever After, and Between Sundays. Karen and her husband, Don, live in the Pacific Northwest with their six children, three of whom are adopted from Haiti. You can find out more about Karen, her books, and her appearance schedule at her website.Dan Andreasen lives in Medina, Ohio, with his wife and three children. He has illustrated more than thirty picture books. When his daughter was asked by her first grade teacher, “What kind of work does your daddy do?” she replied, “He colors.”
Product Details:
List Price: $15.99
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Zonderkidz (April 13, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0310712157
ISBN-13: 978-0310712152
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Let's Have a Daddy Day
I have never met a Children's book by Karen Kingsbury that I didn't fall in love with. Dan Andreasen did an amazingly beautiful job with the illustrations.
Let's Have a Daddy Day reminds kids, and especially dads, that spending quality time with your child(ren) is so important for both of you. Karen also tells us gently that you don't need "stuff" to have a good day playing with the kids, you just need each other.
Karen has this amazing way of having the reader reflect in their hearts how precious the young years are. Any of us with older children know that the little kid years are done in the blink of an eye. I believe her intent is to pour ourselves into our children in these formative years.
Dan, the illustrator, took Karen's words and transformed them into a warm and inviting children's story. The warmth of the illustrations and the joy of being together comes through so wonderfully!
Who knows, maybe you'll be like me and have a tear in your eye as you read the last page.
1 comments:
Oh, you make that sound so sweet.
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