Can You Find Saints?: Introducing Your Child to Holy Men and Women [Hardcover]

Philip D. Gallery (Author), Janet L. Harlow (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up

Can You Find Saints? Introducing Your Child to Holy Men and Women is filled with inviting, kid-friendly illustrations. Building on the fun and adventure of the award-winning Can You Find Jesus? Introducing Your Child to the Gospel, Can You Find Saints? will provide hours of learning and delight for children. The stories of the heroes of the faith spring to life in dazzling pictures that sprinkle a little learning in with the fun. Includes a Parent's Guide. Casebound. 48 pages. Four-color. Other titles in this series include

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Children's Books--First Place

This book is a fascinating way to learn about the saints. The saints are grouped in specific categories but then the final search is Saints in the Making which gives the children a look at what it takes to become a modern day saint. As always the second part is a parent's guide to the previous searches and provides an excellent teaching tool. Recommended for children of all ages. --Catholic Book Awards

About the Author

PHILIP D. GALLERY is a published poet and teaches a writing workshop. He lives on a Christmas tree farm in West Virginia with his wife and four children. JANET L. HARLOW studied art design at Montgomery College. She creates pen-and-ink artwork by commission but began her career in book illustration recently with the best-selling Can You Find Jesus? She and her husband live in West Virginia. They have a daughter and a grandson.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Hardcover: 41 pages
• Publisher: St. Anthony Messenger Press (September 20, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0867164875
• ISBN-13: 978-0867164879
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 11 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #436,232 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fun book!, January 15, 2007

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This review is from: Can You Find Saints?: Introducing Your Child to Holy Men and Women (Hardcover)

I bought this book as a Christmas present for my 5 year old daughter. She loves checking out the "Look-and-Find" books at the library, so I thought that we would try this one. She loves it, and doesn't even realize that she is being "atechized" while we read it!

The artwork is fun. The descriptions of the Saints, while brief are an excellent intro to their lives. Plus, I love the fact that the book makes that point that we are all called to be Saints.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book to introduce little ones to the saints, December 5, 2010

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Karen in Mommyland (NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Can You Find Saints?: Introducing Your Child to Holy Men and Women (Hardcover)

Can You Find Saints? Introducing Your Child to Holy Men and Women is a great way to get young children interested in learning about the saints. I recently had the pleasure of sharing this book with my children, ages 5 and 9, and they enjoyed searching out the hidden pictures and learning about a plethora of saints.

The book is richly illustrated and incredibly detailed. It's sort of like a Catholic Where's Waldo or Look and Find book. If you have children who are interested in books such as those, they will likely enjoy this book very much and learn about our Catholic faith at the same time. As a mom, I love it when books combine fun and learning.

The book is comprised of thirteen picture searches. In every picture there are ten hidden pictures your child needs to find. Some of the searches are easy and others are a little more challenging. We've had this book for a few weeks now and we still haven't found all of the hidden pictures. That's a good thing if you ask me, because it will not only keep children busy, but it will also serve to bring them back to the book over and over as they try to seek out all the hidden pictures.

Every search has a different theme. One search is all about the Popes who have become saints, another focuses on how saints are identified, while other searches are dedicated to saints who are listed in the Liturgy of the Mass or the Bible.

Within each search there is a list of specific things, actions or saints to seek out. The book does a nice job at explaining what you are seeing in the picture. The writing in the book is very approachable for young children.

To help you further explain the pictures to your children, a parent guide is provided for each picture. I like the parent guides because they enumerate things that you should point out to your children as they look at the picture and find hidden objects. They are sort of like a teacher's manual for the searches.

This book offer offers a lovely glossary that defines three pages worth of terms found throughout the book. I find that to be quite a nice touch and I like knowing that my older daughter can sit with the book and look up any of the words for which she doesn't know the meaning.

Overall, I think this book is a lovely resource for faith formation. It's a fun way for children to learn about the saints. Children who have saint names can search this book to see if their patron saint is found among the crowds of saints packed onto every page of this book. My daughters sat with this book for over an hour pouring over the names of the saints in the pictures looking for their own names, names of family members and their favorite saints. They happily brought to book over to me every time they found a favorite saint, or one they thought seemed really cool or had an interesting name.

This book would make a lovely gift for the Catholic child in your life. It could be a fun First Holy Communion gift, a baptism birthday gift, or even a really cool gift to put under the tree or in an Easter basket.

I was provided with a complimentary copy of Can You Find Saints? by the publisher, St. Anthony Messenger Press, in exchange for my honest review.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book!, January 6, 2008

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This review is from: Can You Find Saints?: Introducing Your Child to Holy Men and Women (Hardcover)

My kids really enjoyed these books! Highly would recommend. Especially if your children enjoy Where's Waldo books. A nice way to bring God into their lives while having fun!