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The Prayer Tree

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This book contains several down-to-earth prayers that inspire and enlighten through simplicity.

This is a wonderful book! I wish that this book was still available.

Yes. The fact that this tiny, brilliant book should cost 70 dollars is the same sort of crime that makes all higher education so largely unavailable. I know this all sounds hyperbolic, but truly, Michael Leunig is a too largely unsung spiritual master. These prayers are so deep, so lovely, so simple, some, of course, are so funny, that it's saddens me to know how few people -- certainly Americans, as his books are unavailable here -- will ever get to read them, or to get the comfort and perspective this little book provides. Each one has its own teeny, perfect Leunig cartoon that is, in its way, as moving and delightful as the prayer itself.

I remember, once, trying to get this book from some bookseller, and was told, I believe it was by Penguin, that "Americans wouldn't appreciate it." Wrong. So stupidly wrong. If you're at all in the mood for a little sweet inspiration, buy a used copy.

This is a book I like to re-read often, and leave on the bedside table in the guest room for others to enjoy. These prayers are fun, pithy, and the artwork (the author is a cartoonist) adds alot. One of my favorite prayers is "Let Us Give Thanks for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart". How could you not read this?

I enjoyed reading the poetry in this book. Some of it was funny, much of it was profound and touching. I did not like the author's drawings that accompanied many of the poems. But I will probably buy more of his stuff anyway.