Loyola Kids Book of Saints (Hardcover)

by Amy Welborn (Author), Ansgar Holmberg (Author, Illustrator) "Children all over the world know him and love him..." (more)
Key Phrases: Juan Diego, Padre Pio, Mother Cabrini (more...)

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Product Description
Who are the saints, why are they important, and what can today's children learn from them? In Loyola Kids Book of Saints, the first book in the Loyola Kids series, author Amy Welborn answers these questions with exciting and inspiring stories, real-life applications, and important information about these heroes of the church. This delightful collection of saints' lives, written in a storybook style for children eight to twelve, explains how saints becomes saints, why we honor them, and how they help us even today.

Divided thematically, the book features more than sixty saints from all over the world and from all across time, including our newest saints, such as St. Katharine Drexel; popular saints, such as St. Anthony of Padua; and Blesseds, such as Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. Each story tells about a saint and encourages readers to consider how they might apply what they learn from the story to their everyday lives.

From the Publisher
Loyola Kids Book of Saints is the first title in a new series of children's books from Loyola Press. In each chapter, children will find:

*The dates when the saint lived, the saint's feast day, and an original illustration of the saint
*Stories about the saint's life and work, written in a conversational, friendly style
*Ways to apply the saints' stories to their own lives, plus a discussion question based on the story

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Hardcover: 307 pages
• Publisher: Loyola Press (September 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0829415343
• ISBN-13: 978-0829415346
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #84,708 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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79 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for Religious Education teachers., November 25, 2002

By	dave c "dave c" (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews

I teach second-grade Religious Education at our local parish. I first saw this book at the library and thoght it might be fun to start a class feature called "Saint of the Week." It quickly became the kids' favorite part of the weekly class. The accounts of the lives of these Saints are all lively and interesting enough to keep the class's attention, and the author still manages to be reverent in tone. Older kids, I am sure, would also enjoy the stories, which are long enough to contain some very interesting details, but not so long as to lose the audience's attention. Then again, how can you lose a class's attention when you tell them the true story of, for example, St. Thomas More or St. Joan of Arc?

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for Bedtime, January 9, 2007

By	Cursor (Arizona) - See all my reviews

Amy Welborn has produced an excellent book that brings the lives of the Saints to children at a level they can enjoy and understand. I read a variety of stories and literature to my two sons' before they fall asleep each night. However, we often decide to read a couple stories from the Loyola Kids Book of the Saints. They are just the right length for our nightly ritual. Each story begins with a short moral dilemma or question that children can get their heads around. Then the story of a particular Saint is used to help them work through the question. The stories are always interesting, sometimes heroic, often are poignant. We especially enjoyed the stories about St. Nicholas and St. Wenceslaus this past Christmas season.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How Amy Welborn Nearly Caused a Bar-Fight, February 16, 2006

By	Rich Leonardi "http://richleonardi.blogspot.com" (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews

A year or so ago when I was visiting a friend in Newport, Rhode Island, he took me to one of his favorite watering holes. I believe the name of the place was O'Brien's. It was trivia night, and though the contest was half-over, we decided to participate.

Through a combination of luck, relative sobriety, and a meager knowledge of history, we managed to come from behind and win the contest. The final question concerned "the inventor of the alphabet used by Russians and other Eastern European peoples."

A few months before, we had read as a family from Amy Welborn's excellent "Kids Book of Saints" about Cyril and Methodius, and I knew that Cyril was the man behind "Cyrillic."

A member of the second-place team must have thought we were trivia hustlers. "How do you know that!?" He continued to badger my friend and me until we paid our bar-tab and more or less slunk away with our ten-dollar gift certificate award.

And that is how Amy Welborn nearly caused a bar-fight in Newport, Rhode Island.