Angel to Watch Over Me [Paperback]

Joan Wester Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 5, 1996

"INSPIRATIONAL AND HEARTWARMING...Anyone who was ever once a child will enjoy it--and so will those who are still children, or children at heart."
--AngelWatch
Perhaps because children have not yet learned to disbelieve what their eyes, ears, and hearts tell them, they have a special closeness with angels. After the publication of Joan Wester Anderson's New York Times bestseller Where Angels Walk, people urged her to write a book entirely about children's experiences with angels--and sent along their own personal narratives as witness to these miraculous visitations.
An Angel to Watch Over Me is the result: a wonderful collection of stories that documents and describes extraordinary encounters between children and celestial visions. There's the grandmotherly angel who consoles an ailing girl in a hospital emergency room, and the angel who helps a Texas boy lose his fear of thunderstorms. There are angels who combat darkness, bring glad tidings, and offer comfort. Angel prayers, mothers' memories, beautiful illustrations, and some heavenly hugs also grace these pages. For those who read this wondrous book, angels become a warm and loving presence in everyday life, a blessed part of being.
"A GEM FOR BOTH ADULTS AND CHILDREN...I love this book."
--Antoinette Bosco
"MIRACULOUS...Poems, songs, and other angelic messages dot the text along with sweet drawings."
--Booklist

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

The recent flood of best sellers detailing celestial encounters suggests that angels may soon give Bigfoot and Elvis a run for their money. Anderson's previous report, Where Angels Walk (Ballantine, 1993), sold more than 250,000 copies.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

Anderson has accumulated these angel stories from a variety of sources, from written accounts and from oral narratives. The stories of children's encounters with angels suggest that these incidents happen under the most ordinary circumstances, as when an angel appears at a school play, or over an infant's crib, or to a troubled student in a library. The miraculous encounters include a surfing angel who pulls a child from deep water and then disappears. Many of the stories close with a moralistic message from Anderson or a biblical quote. Poems, songs, and other angelic messages dot the text along with sweet drawings. Denise Perry Donavin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 5, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345397738
• ISBN-13: 978-0345397737
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.4 x 7.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #767,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I started writing when we bought a handyman-special house that didn't come with a handyman. We had four sons at that point (a daughter finally arrived a year after we moved) so I started magazine freelance-writing. Collected a lot of rejection slips but I also learned a lot about the industry. I was completely self-taught and have never taken a journalism course.

By lurches and mistakes, I added a second income to the family while staying at home. A friend and I, on a lark, did a book on household humor together, and we found a publisher right away. The first book led to a second, but then my co-writer went off to a real job at a university. I continued at home with the magazine articles, an occasional book (the books never sold very well) and a speaking sideline that got me out of the house occasionally.

In 1992, as I made plans to finish my career in writing, I did one last book, Where Angels Walk, which became a New York Times best seller, and is still on bookshelves and published in at least 18 languages lo! these past almost-20 years. I never did stop writing, and have just completed #8 in my angel/miracles series. I also have returned to my roots---with a humorous book on family life, Moms Go Where Angels Fear to Tread.

I'm very grateful to God for allowing me to do this kind of work. My father once said that a person who loves her job will never work a day in her life, and that is me. I hope you are a new reader. Please check my website (and many new angel stories) at http://joanwanderson.com.

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute gem!, May 17, 2002

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Judith E. Pavluvcik (Dreaming of the beach in Hawaii, but living in the reality of the desert in Arizona!!) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angel to Watch Over Me (Paperback)

I love Joan Andersons angel books, and this book is no exception. This angel of a book is devoted solely to childrens accounts of their heavenly visitors and it is a gem!

This book is to be shared amongst families and it is a truly wonderful book to share with children to teach them about their loving protectors, who are with them always. I also found that I was given a gentle reminder that my guardian angel is always with me, even at my lowest moments!

The stories are inspirational, and the messages of love, faith, and trust will carry with you long after you finish this wonderful book. You will cry, you will laugh, and you will want to read more! You will be left with feelings of love and knowing that someone is always looking out for you. My only complaint is that the book was not longer!!

This book will touch your heart and leave you feeling uplifted. It is also a great book to open and read when one is feeling down and blue! What I found remarkable in most of the stories, was when the children were in a situation where they felt compromised or felt that they were going to be harmed, they remembered their parents saying to them to call on either God or the angels to help them. Once they invoked this petition, help was swift and sure. One cannot help but come away with feelings of amazement and total wonder and knowing that we truly are loved.

A book to pass on and on!!!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Joan's books made me feel a brush of an Angel's wing, July 5, 2000

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Tony St James (Buenos Aires - Argentina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angel to Watch Over Me (Paperback)

What can I do about Joan Wester Anderson's books about Angels ?

I have 3 books from her :

An Angel to watch over me When miracles happen and my favorite WHERE ANGELS WALK.

These books are amazing is like a touch of Heaven everytime I read them ( I read them many times each of them )I feel like if many Angels were reading with me on my shoulders.It feels great. Thanks Joan I noticed I had some Angel's touches during my life that I didn't know. Everytime I read a testimony from her books A big smile of happiness and thankfull come to my face and thank GOD for helping all his children and myself. This sweet lady is a really nice person not only as a writter, ' cause many times when I need some prayers for my mom or myself, JOAN was one of the first persons to answer my prayer request. I think Joan must be a real Angel, ' cause not only she made feel pretty good everytime I read her books she helps me when I need some prayers too, I believe she is a real Angel helping a lot of people throught her books and good actions to help somebody, like all GOD's Angels do to help people. Joan Wester Anderson's books are a touch of Heaven on Earth. Buy them, it's garanteed

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awww, September 24, 2004

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Miss Hater "Avid Reader" (Kentucky,USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angel to Watch Over Me (Paperback)

What an amazingly charming uplifting book! Its a quick read and I felt my spirits lift after reading it. I believe every word and it was great to see such touching miraculous stories put together in a cute little collection like this.I recommend this book for adults and children alike. Both can get something touching and comforting out of it.