Character Development
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Let Me Hold You Longer
$9.99With lighthearted illustrations and a sweet, reflective tone, best-selling author Karen Kingsbury encourages parents to savor not only their children’s firsts, like first steps and first words, but the lasts as well. With the tenderness of a mother speaking directly to her child, Karen reminds us not to miss last days of kindergarten and last at-bats in Little League amid the whirlwind of life. Adapted from a poem in Rejoice, this book allows mothers and grandmothers everywhere to identify with the tenderhearted reflections on these pages.
Now the same sweet content is available in this smaller edition at a special value price.
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What Do You Do With An Idea
$17.95Compendium Inc
A New York Times Best Seller and award-winning book, What Do You Do With an Idea? is for anyone who’s ever had a big idea.
This is the story of one brilliant idea and the child who helps to bring it into the world. As the child’s confidence grows, so does the idea itself. And then, one day, something amazing happens. This is a story for anyone, at any age, who’s ever had an idea that seemed a little too big, too odd, too difficult. It’s a story to inspire you to welcome that idea, to give it some space to grow, and to see what happens next. Because your idea isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it’s just getting started.
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Berenstain Bears Keep The Faith
$5.99Brother and Sister Bear’s friend Ferdy Factual loves science. Brother and Sister like science too. They like digging for fossils, examining the moon through their telescope, and peering at tiny things under a microscope. But Ferdy tells Brother and Sister that he doesn’t believe God created the world. In fact, he doesn’t believe in God at all. This is a new idea for Brother and Sister. Together with Mama and Papa, they visit Preacher Brown to find out what it means to have faith and learn a lesson from Daniel who had faith in a den of lions.
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Berenstain Bears Valentine Blessings
$5.99In The Berenstain Bears Valentine Blessings hockey-playing Brother Bear finds himself in a new situation … he has a secret admirer! When Sister sees the Valentine card from Sweetie Bear, she cannot resist teasing Brother. But Papa steps in to save the day, reminding the cubs that all love comes from God who has a plan for each of us.
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BOOK OF MAN
$24.99WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN
Raising up men has never been easy, but today is seems particularly tough. The young and old need heroes to embody the eternal qualities of manhood: honor, duty, valor, and integrity. InThe Book of Man, William J. Bennett points the way, offering a positive, encouraging, uplifting, realizable idea of manhood, redolent of history and human nature, and practical for contemporary life.
Using profiles, stories, letters, poems, essays, historical vignettes, and myths to bring his subject to life, The Book of Man defines what a man should be, how he should live, and to what he should aspire in several key areas of life: war, work, leisure, and more. “Whether we take up the sword, the plow, the ball, the gavel, our children, or our Bibles,” says Bennett, “we must always do it like the men we are called to be.”The Book of Man shows how.
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Boys Guide To Making Really Good Choices
$12.99It’s never too early to give young boys a resource that will help them learn the skills for making right choices in life. A Boy’s Guide to Making Really Good Choices is designed to help boys ages 8-12 learn how to think through their options, realize the possible consequences, and develop good decision-making skills. In this book, Jim George uses helpful stories and illustrations to walk boys through the kinds of choices they are likely to face each day–choices to…
listen to their parents
do their best in school, sports, and activities
select friends with care
be kind to siblings and others
help out at home and use good mannersThrough the use of real-life scenarios, Jim George equips boys to build good character–the kind that will stay with them for life and honor God’s standards.
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God Bless You And Good Night
$9.99This sweet book will make sure your little one falls to sleep feeling secure and loved.
Bedtime Bibles and storybooks are evergreen classics that sell through year after year. Seasoned brands and new names alike are seeing surging sales in this felt-need genre as parents are looking for comforting books with Bible stories, verses, and prayers to settle kids down to sleep.
In God Bless You and Good Night, sleepy little ones are reminded of God’s blessings and how much they are loved. The delightful rhyming story takes readers through several scenes of snuggly animals who are getting ready for bed. These sweet, sometimes silly rhymes and adorable art are sure to make God Bless You and Good Night a favorite part of the bedtime ritual for parents and children.
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Awesome Book About God For Kids
$13.99Kids ages eight to eleven will love these thoroughly up-to-date retellings of stories from the Bible. Each one highlights an important aspect of God’s nature, including…
*God is my defender and protector (Daniel in the lions’ den).
*God is the best listener (Hannah’s prayer).
*God wants to know me personally (Jesus and Zacchaeus).With delightful cartoon drawings on nearly every page and a brief application after each story, this collection is perfect for young readers to enjoy on their own or with adults by their side.
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Travel Guide To Heaven For Kids
$15.99Soon after his popular A Travel Guide to Heaven was published, bestselling author Anthony DeStefano recognized that children also have many questions about heaven. In celebration of the tenth anniversary of that book, Anthony wrote this fun-filled, action story about a little boy named Joey who gets to take a whirlwind tour of heaven with his guardian angel, Gabby. Artist Erwin Madrid’s stunning illustrations bring the story to life, showing heaven to be a place where everyone is happy, the animals all get along, and God’s glory is more amazing than anything Joey had ever seen in his whole life.
This long-awaited children’s edition will quickly become a favorite for the reader and the child alike. Imagine the comfort and peace children will experience when they hear about this incredible place God has prepared for them.
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Berenstain Bears God Made The Colors Level 1
$5.99Red, yellow, blue, and more, the Bear cubs take a color tour! Bear Country comes alive with color as Brother and Sister teach us about God’s colorful world. Written in simple rhyme and classic Berenstain rhythm, level one readers will enjoy this tour of Bear Country.
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Berenstain Bears And The Trouble With Things
$5.99In this new Berenstain Bear, Living Lights 8×8 The Berenstain Bears and The Trouble with Things, the Bears are dealing with a typical family issue … the idea that they need ‘things.’ And even more things! Brother Bear wants a Space Grizzlies play set. Sister Bear begs for a Bearbie dream house. Even Papa Bear thinks he needs a new fishing rod! But thanks to Mama Bear’s wisdom the family learns that God offers more than just material things.
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Body Book
$12.99Here it is-a book that has all the “girl stuff” young girls have been dying to know about. The transition from young girl to teenager makes the tween years a time of great change-especially in the body department! For all of the questions adolescence raises, this unique and creative book for girls ages 7-11 answers the common questions girls have during this often confusing and overwhelming stage in life. The Body Book gives girls the scoop on everything from body changes and cramps to diet and exercise in an inviting and conversational manner. Filled with fun magazine-type quizzes and imaginative activities, The Body Book not only offers accurate, up-to-date information on personal issues tween girls experience but also shares it from a positive biblical perspective. Above all, the message that all of these changes are a God thing is highlighted on each and every page.
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Way To Be A Winner
$18.95Everyone wants to be a winner, right? But what does that mean? Join Little Tommy in The Way to Be a Winner, the second book in the Little Tommy seven-book series, as he learns how to be a winner in God’s eyes. Little Tommy is just like every other five-year-old who yearns to be a winner. And with the help of his parents and basketball coach, Little Tommy learns that he is a real winner every time he plays on God’s team and uses his special talents to work together, help others, and honor God.
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Beauty Book : The Lily Series
$9.99Learn with Lily and her friends just what it means to be beautiful in God’s eyes-inside and out! In a society so focused on the idea that external beauty reigns supreme, it can be difficult for young girls to figure out what “true” beauty is all about. This unique and creative book for girls ages 7-11 answers the common questions girls ask during this often confusing and overwhelming stage in their lives in an inviting and conversational manner. Filled with fun quizzes, imaginative activities, and cool illustrations, The Beauty Book offers cool, relevant information about everything from great hair styles to tattoos, from skin care to clothes, and much more. Above all, the message that God-confidence is beautiful is highlighted on each and every page.
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Mysterious Money Tree
$17.95The Mysterious Money Tree is the first book in a series of delightful stories featuring one of Christian kids’ favorite personalities, Little Tommy. Five-year-old Tommy is energetic, artistic, adventurous, helpful, curious, and compassionate. His dad is a pastor and his mom stays home with him and his two younger siblings. Together with his favorite friend, Bubba, his little hand puppet, he learns valuable lessons in responsibility, friendship, thankfulness, sharing, giving, prayer, and much more. When Little Tommy’s mysterious money tree presents him with an opportunity to spend money on himself or to help a family in need, Little Tommy learns that it is more blessed to give than to receive.
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Berenstain Bears Honey Hunt Helpers Level 1
$4.99A series of faith-based values readers inspired by the classic Berenstain Bears book, The Berenstain Bears and the Good Deed, recently acquired for reprint by Zonderkidz. The Good Deed Scouts are a group of bear cubs who are committed to doing a good deed each and every day. Scouts Brother, Sister, Cousin Fred and Lizzy set forth in each story to find a good deed to do. Each book begins with a Bible verse about the importance of doing good deeds to help others. Each story tells about a different need in the community that the scouts can fulfill, a different way in which they can be of service. By doing good deeds for others, the Good Deed Scouts bring out the best in others as well. Soon those they serve are doing good deeds in return. From this small seed helping and caring for others grows and blossoms throughout the whole community. Biblical values are brought out and Bible verses are quoted.
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Princess Stories : Real Bible Stories Of Gods Princesses
$14.99Princess Stories is the big sister to popular board book My Princess Bible. Princess Stories, appropriate for girls ages 4 to 8, is a collection of first-person narrative stories about 29 women in the Bible-and the 30th story is about the reader, who is God’s princess too. In each four-page story, the reader gets a rhyming verse about the princess (addressed to “Mirror, mirror on the wall”), a first-person story of the featured Bible woman and the special quality her life reflects, a Bible verse from another passage of Scripture that summarizes/relates to the character trait, and Princess Ponderings-questions that help girls and their parents discuss the stories and relate the lessons to life.Through this book, girls will learn more in-depth stories of women of the Bible and how to apply Scripture to their own lives.
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Zippy And The Stripes Of Courage
$14.99Zippy and the Stripes of Courage is a story about how Zippy the zebra came to accept himself for who he is. It teaches children to celebrate one another’s differences and to treat others as they themselves want to be treated.
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Writings To Young Women From Laura Ingalls Wilder 2
$12.99In Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Life As a Pioneer Woman, Laura tells her readers what it was like to be a pioneer in the early 1900s. Her stories and insights show us how difficult even the simplest chores or tasks were for the early pioneers, yet through it all she continued to see each situation as an adventure–as if she was truly blazing the trail for future generations.
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Berenstain Bears Show Some Respect
$5.99Honor your father and your mother,’ Exodus 20:12
In The Berenstain Bears Show Some Respect even good cubs can fall into bad habits. Brother and Sister have gotten into the habit of sometimes treating their Mama and Papa with less than the respect they deserve. Mama and Papa occasionally forget their manners towards their parents as well! When Gramps and Gran notice the change in the Bear Family attitude, they call them on it and point out that everyone deserves a little respect.
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Junior Battles To Be His Best Level 1
$4.99This series of Veggie Tale I Can Read books at Level One are sure to become favorites of young emergent readers and their parents and teachers. Using the beloved characters of Bob and Larry as well as their other Veggie friends, young readers will learn strong morals and values as well as be charmed by the humor and accessibility of the brand.
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Bob And Larry In The Case Of The Missing Patience Level 1
$5.99This series of Veggie Tale I Can Read books at Level One are sure to become favorites of young emergent readers and their parents and teachers. Using the beloved characters of Bob and Larry as well as their other Veggie friends, young readers will learn strong morals and values as well as be charmed by the humor and accessibility of the brand.
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Berenstain Bears And The Little Lost Cub Level 1
$4.99Helping a lost cub find his mother is a perfect good deed for the Scouts. After all, if they are living by God’s example, they cannot let even the smallest go astray! Will they find the cub’s mother and bring them back together?
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God Gave Us You
$7.99When a charming polar bear cub climbs into bed one night, she asks her Mama a very important question:
“Where did I come from?”
As Mama bear tucks her youngest cub under the quilts, she lovingly explains, “We wanted you very, very much, and we are so very glad because…
“God gave us you.”
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You Are Special
$6.99This special paperback gift edition of a beloved storyteller’s classic will point children and adults to the important truth that God loves us just the way we are. You Are Special tells the story of Punchinello, the wooden Wemmick. The inhabitants of Wemmicksville spend their days placing stickers on each other. Golden star stickers are put on the talented, smart, and attractive Wemmicks. Gray dot stickers are for those who make mistakes and don’t stand out. Punchinello, despite his best efforts to get stars from the other Wemmicks, is covered in dots and begins to believe he’ll never be worth anything. Then one day he visits Eli the woodcarver, his creator, and everything changes. Max Lucado’s beautiful story reminds us that we are precious to God just the way we are. It is through spending daily time with him that we begin to see ourselves through his eyes. Parents and children will enjoy this classic illustration of an eternal truth. This best-seller has sold millions of copies and is now available as a special paperback gift edition.
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Berenstain Bears Neighbor In Need Level 1
$4.99In The Berenstain Bears Good Deed Scouts Helping Hands, the Scouts extend helping hands to a well-known neighbor—Mrs. Grizzle. She is so appreciative, she repays them with lemonade and some memorable tricks…showing a chain-reaction of kindness in the Bear community.
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Lovely And Royal Family
$12.45What person does not want to love and be loved in return? To be protected, listened to, given good example, taught how to handle anger, and disciplined gently by loving parents? Learn all this and more in the story of Lovely and the Royal Famly.
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Writings To Young Women From Laura Ingalls Wilder 1
$12.99From helping others in times of need, to keeping and maintaining friendships, to having a positive attitude, Laura’s words of wisdom in Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues are applicable even in today’s world. As she shares stories and experiences from her own life, she encourages readers to live lives of integrity and to realize their dreams.
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Wisdom Of Pixar
$24.99Introduction
1 Virtue And Wisdom: An Animated Look
2 Hope And Imagination: To Infinity And Beyond!
3 Identity: Toy Story-You Are A Toy!
4 Justice: A Bug’s Life-For Oppressed Ants Everywhere!
5 Friendship: Toy Story 2-You’ve Got A Friend In Me.
6 Humor: Monsters, Inc.-These Are The Jokes, Kid.
7 Family: Finding Nemo-I Have To Find My Son!
8 Courage: The Incredibles-Where’s My Super Suit?
9 Adventure: Cars-Life Is A Journey.
10 Ambition: Ratatouille-I Want To Make Things.
11 Technology: WALL-E-Everything You Need To Be Happy.
12 Love: Up-I Have Just Met You, And I Love You!
ConclusionAppendix A: Pixar’s Plots
Appendix B: Pixar’s Short Films
Appendix C: Movie Discussion Guide
Filmography
Acknowledgments
About The AuthorAdditional Info
IVP Print On Demand TitleKids and adults alike love Pixar’s movies. We come out of the theater not just entertained or amused, but inspired. Everybody agrees: Pixar makes fun, clean, terrific movies. But what makes these movies so appealing is not merely amazing CGI animation, clever humor or fantastic imagination. These movies are not just great. Pixar’s movies are good. Robert Velarde unpacks the movies of Pixar and shows how they display the best of classic Christian virtues. Pixar’s films resonate with us because of their moral character. Their virtuous themes of hope and courage, friendship and love connect with our deepest human longings. Whether we identify with the plight of a lost fish or the adventures of toys, bugs or cars, Pixar’s characters help us build our own character, with the kind of virtue that we want for ourselves and those around us. Insightfully exploring each of Pixar’s movies, this book is a friendly companion for fans, parents and church leaders. Discover how the imagination of Pixar can awaken in you a Christian vision for a moral life and a better society.
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