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10 Children’s Books Related to Worship Perfect for Meeting Bookshelves

A selection from the Friends Journal review archives.

Eileen Redden

Pandora

By Victoria Turnbull. Clarion Books, 2017. 30 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. Pandora, a fox, lives at a…

Reviewed by Ann Birch

Little Mole Finds Hope

By Glenys Nellist, illustrated by Sally Garland. Beaming Books, 2020. 32 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 5–8. This simple…

Reviewed by Ann Birch

Maybe God Is Like That Too

FJ Review: "Benjamin Schipper’s colorful, cartoon-like illustrations of big city life came as a welcome surprise, in contrast to the bucolic scenes I expected in a book about seeing God in the world."

Reviewed by Dee Ann Birch Cameron

Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind

By Cynthia Grady, illustrated by Amiko Hirao. Charlesbridge, 2018. 32 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. When some of…

Reviewed by Ann Birch

Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II

By Andrea Warren. Margaret Ferguson Books, 2019. 224 pages. $22.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 10 and up.

Reviewed by Ann Birch

10 Picture Books about Family That Should Be in Every Quaker Meeting’s Library

These picture books have all been reviewed by Friends Journal, and they are ones I believe belong in every meetinghouse…

Eileen Redden