Bless the Beasts: Children's Prayers and Poems about Animals

by Kris Waldherr and June Cotner

Children love animals, their connection with animals fosters respect for creation and humanity. These inspirational prayers and poems offer graceful words of personal observation, joy, and concern... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587171767
• ISBN13: 9781587171765
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 7

Customer Reviews

An enjoyable and inspirational children's picture book

Bless The Beasts: Children's Prayers And Poems About Animals is an enjoyable and inspirational children's picture book, illustrated with gentle full color artwork illustrating a series of prayers to God on behalf of humble animals. Bless The Beasts is highly recommended as a delightful, gentle and emotionally moving anthology of spiritual verse for young readers. "Dear God,/You protected the lamb following Mary to school/the mouse running up and down the clock/even the cow jumping over the moon."

Honoring Connections

The innate attraction of children for what is true, kind and beautiful can be seen in their love of the natural world. On the exquisitely illustrated pages of BLESS THE BEASTS intriguing insects, family pets, farm animals, artic dwellers and creatures of the sea and skies fill young minds with curiosity, awe, laughter and an enhanced understanding of their humanity. Anyone wishing to encourage and honor the connection between humans and God's creatures whether they splash, creep, crawl, prance, hop or flutter will find a treasure in this creatively collected anthology. Surley many of these accessible yet thought provoking poems and prayers will find a permanent home in the hearts of children and adults who share the joy of reading them again and again.

OUR ANIMAL FRIENDS

From poems about birds by Carl Sandburg and Victor Hugo to a poem about horses dancing by Paula Timpson, BLESS THE BEASTS is a feast for animal lovers. Other famous authors, such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Jane Yolen, and many not-so-famous adults and children have shared their love for pets or their admiration for wild creatures in this beautiful collection by June Cotner. Illustrations by Kris Waldherr are so lifelike you will want to stroke the fur or feathers.If you've ever been owned and loved by an animal or you have a strong empathy with wild animals or birds, this book is a must for your library. Take your cat onto you lap and curl up with it....