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April 2022 Books

Prayer of the World: A Rainbow Psalm

By Kathleen Maia Tapp. Earthword Press, 2021. 122 pages. $29.50/hardcover; $18.50/paperback; $6.99/eBook.  What if the earth, its creatures, and the…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

December 2022 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

The Good for Nothing Tree

By Amy-Jill Levine and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, illustrated by Annie Bowler. Flyaway Books, 2022. 40 pages. $18/hardcover; $16/eBook. Recommended for…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

October 2021 Books

Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders

By Todd Miller. City Lights Books, 2021. 180 pages. $14.95/paperback or eBook. Todd Miller has spent much of his adult…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

Quaker Book Reviews

Pillars: How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus

By Rachel Pieh Jones. Plough Publishing House, 2021. 280 pages. $18/paperback; $10/eBook. Rachel Pieh Jones’s book Pillars: How Muslim Friends…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

March 2021 Books

Praying the Psalms with Beads: A Book of Daily Prayers

By Nan Lewis Doerr. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2020. 223 pages. $15/paperback or eBook. Nan Lewis Doerr, an Episcopal…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

December 2020 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

Accordionly: Abuelo and Opa Make Music

By Michael Genhart, illustrated by Priscilla Burris. Magination Press, 2020. 32 pages. $14.99/hardcover or eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. What…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

February 2022 Books

Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together

Edited by Charles E. Moore. Plough Publishing House, 2021. 396 pages. $18/paperback; $10/eBook. If we want Jesus’s ethical teachings all…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

December 2021 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

The One Thing You’d Save

By Linda Sue Park, illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng. Clarion Books, 2021. 72 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Friends Journal recommends for ages…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

May 2021 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

The World’s Poorest President Speaks Out

By Yoshimi Kusaba, illustrated by Gaku Kusaba, translated by Andrew Wong. Enchanted Lion Books, 2020. 40 pages. $16.95/hardcover. Recommended for…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

May 2020 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Todos Iguales/All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove/A Ballad of Lemon Grove

By Christy Hale. Children’s Book Press, 2019. 40 pages. $19.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 8–11.

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen