"My Favorite Bible" by Rondi DeBoer, Christine Tangvald, Ilustrations by Ariel Pang, Book Review By Candace Duiker

  Such a sweet and colorful first bible for children "My Favorite Bible" is by Rondi DeBoer and Christine Tangvald and illustrated by Ariel Pang.  I loved the pictures so much I was running my fingers over them.  The stories are written in an easy to understand way.  One of the things I loved most about this bible is that it interactive activities mixed in to create meaningful parent/child discussions, as well as, alone time moments of contemplation.  I cannot think of a better way to start a child off then with delightful bible.
Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.
Available at your favourite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group

By Candace Duiker
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"The Christmas Shoppe" by Melody Carlson Book Review by Candace Duiker

  With Christmas freshly in our minds the book I read: "The Christmas Shoppe" by Melody Carlson really made me smile. It is about a woman named Matilda Honeycutt who moves to the small town of Parrish Springs to open a special shoppe.  Many people are close-hearted to this gypsy like woman at first.  She eventually opens her shop and that's when everything changes.  People are searching, aren't we all really?  Well after they come into Matilda's shop they end up leaving with answers to things they didn't necessarily know they were looking for.  I loved this book and I think you will too.  Christmas isn't too far gone for you to not still enjoy this gift of a story.
Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.
Available at your favourite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group

By Candace Duiker
http://www.grafmartin.com/
http://www.amazon.ca/
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/

"Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me A Memoir of Sorts" by Ian Morgan Cron Book review by Candace Duiker

 My second review is of "Jesus, My Father, the CIA and Me A Memoir of Sorts" by Ian Morgan Cron.  Wow, this book is an emotional, biographical offering of the Author Ian MOrgan Cron's life.  Cron documents his Father's fight with the bottle and his own hurt it wrought in his relationship with his Dad.  It's a real dance, but God does show up too.  There are moments in this book when Ian Morgan Cron in his teenage angst leaves your heart haunted for him.  His words make you feel like those boys who were walking by the railroad tracks in the movie "Stand By Me," as he struggles with whether to drink or smoke pot.  He makes it with the strength of his beliefs, even though he finds out his Dad works as a CIA agent. This book is one to be reread and you want to really 'go' it with the Author.  It's real, honest and you just gotta know the how and why his Dad was a CIA agent.
Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.
Available at your favourite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
By Candace Duiker

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http://www.amazon.ca/
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/

"Chasing Sunsets" by Eva Marie Everson Review by Candace Duiker

  Welcome to 2012! I am catching up one some book reviews.  The first book of my year-end reviews is "Chasing Sunsets" by Eva Marie Everson.  This book is perfect for your mid-winter beach getaway.  The lead character Kimberly Tucker's marriage has ended.  She is in a painful transiton, caught between her old married life and learning to know who this new single woman that she trying to become.  The author Eva Marie Everson tells the story so naturally and easily that the reader in you is going to fall away and will become Kimberly Tucker.  You can't help but cheer for her in her journey to become whole again. 
Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.
Available at your favourite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.

www.grafmartin.com

http://www.amazon.ca/

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/