Storybook Mentors: Grown-Up Wisdom from Children's Classics

By Brenda Waggoner

Let Brenda Waggoner reintroduce you to beloved storybook characters and help you discover deeper truths in these classic tales. For starters, embrace the heroism of Black Beauty, recapture the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0781435021
• ISBN13: 9780781435024
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Chariot Victor Pub
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Nostalgic Walk

With the skill of an exquisite artisan, Brenda Waggoner intricately weaves classic children'sstories with contemporary life-applications, stitching them together with compelling biblicaltruth. The resulting book, Storybook Mentors, is a rich tapestry of variegated wisdom andwonder, delighting the spirit, deepening the mind. Waggoner wisely understands that no matterher age, deep inside every woman there still beats the heart of a precious child-innocent,inquiring, intuitive. She also realizes that as adults stooped under the burdens of life, womencan lose the wonder, lose the joy. Take a nostalgic walk with Waggoner through the pages ofchildhood's best-loved legends like Heidi and The Secret Garden and be transported to agentler, nobler time. Gather the blossoms of childhood and let their color and fragrancesweeten your life today.-Lynn D. Morrissey...

Applies the theme of mentoring wisdom to fifteen classics

In Storybook Mentors: Grown-Up Wisdom From Children's Classics, licensed professional counselor Brenda Waggoner applies the theme of mentoring wisdom to fifteen classic children's stories. The stories are grouped into three categories: Children As Mentors (Anne of Green Gables - Imagination; A Little Princess - Hope; Heidi - Grace; Pippi Longstocking - Free Spirit; Pollyanna - Optimism); Friends As Mentors (Charlotte's Web - Sacrificial Love; The Little Engine That Could - Confidence; Black Beauty - Humility; The Secret Garden - Coming Alive); and Elders As Mentors (The Velveteen Rabbit - Becoming Real; Mary Poppins - Mystique); Little Women - Nurturing; The Giving Tree - The Joy of Giving; The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe - Redemption; Make Way For Ducklings - Homemaking). Each begins with a brief summary of the story (called "Crux of the Classic"); with each chapter making application of the mentor's truth to women's spiritual lives, and concludes with a section that connects the classic tale with Biblical truth ("Words of Old"). Unique, engaging, informative, and inspiring, Storybook Mentors is widely recommended reading for parents, teachers, counselors, youth workers, tutors, and anyone else with the responsibility for nurturing a young mind.

Brenda Waggoner, Author

Through the eyes of a child, we understand with the heart and know without question that we are lavishly loved and completely accepted, even though we are deeply fallen. As adults, our life experiences may threaten to steal this sense of childlike security and joy, convincing us we're not really lovable or acceptable after all. Our hearts sometimes grow cold and cynical as we experience disappointments, loss, grief. We begin to "act strong" instead of asking for help when we need it; to laugh when we feel like crying, to pretend we're "just fine" when we're falling apart. Storybook Mentors is written for all who want to recapture the joy of childhood as they honestly face the realities of their grown-up lives. Although the magic formulas we once believed in don't always add up to an ideal life, and pretending doesn't work in the adult world, we don't have to give up our sense of wonder, creativity and imagination. In fact, these qualities help us enter into our faith more deeply and with greater freedom. Come along on an adventure back to the basics of childlike faith. Through the storylines of some classic heroines like Mary Poppins, Anne of Green Gables and Pippi Longstocking, let's revisit some familiar scenes and see what wisdom we may rediscover for living our grown-up lives courageously, authentically, with childlike joy.

childhood books--still learning from them

After "Velveteen Woman", I could hardly wait for this book. Once again, Brenda gently and kindly guides the reader through life's lessons and gaining wisdom from children's stories. Brenda's books reach out to me, embrace me, and tell me I am ok, and inspire me to keep searching and studying. I no longer feel there is something wrong with being a 'quiet christian' and I feel a renewed strentgh of spirit. I have given several copies of her first book to friends, and will do the same with this book!