Count Your Blessings (Walking With God)

By Sally Anne Conan

Book Overview

When adults "count their blessings," they usually count those things that are beyond a child's understanding. This book helps children learn that everything is a blessing, especially ordinary things like puddles, hugs, and snuggly toys. This is an early lesson in gratitude, optimism, and the abundance of life's riches that are hidden in the everyday. Both comfortable and familiar, the rhymed text and the photos include the elderly and children of both genders (a reminder for those kids who doubt that siblings are a blessing). The blessings are numbered from one to ten, helping the text work as a counting book as well. For all Christian denominations, children ages 0 to 5. The heart of the Walking with God Board Books is the Gospel message of love. The books also affirm family love and essential values, using a fun format that will charm both adults and children. In addition, the books help adults answer the perplexing "big" questions of life that little kids ask so often. With black-and-white photos by an award-winning photographer and a team-up of two of Paulist's favorite creators of children's books, the series is a can't-go-wrong choice for parents and grandparents, care givers and gift givers, Christian day-cares and preschools, parochial and Sunday schools, home schools, and pediatricians' offices. +

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809166593
• ISBN13: 9780809166596
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 16 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 2 to 4 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Kindergarten

Customer Reviews

count on this one to charm!

I love all the books in this series! I have been teaching Sunday school for a long time, and it's hard to find books that are respectful of the child and of God, books that aren't 'cutesy' or trite. This series is gentle and despite being in black and white, very engaging. I enjoy reading it to our 2-4 year olds. We have a copy in the church nursery as well as one in my atrium classroom so that when they move up to our 3-6 class, there is something familiar to greet them. : )

This book is a blessing!

The photography is original and superb. Heidi Bratton has a unique gift. Highly recommended for parents of toddlers.