Kate Rietema

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  All The Babies

  $12.99

  Celebrate God’s gift of adoption by reading this colorful board book!

  God made all babies different and special, and He made families different and special too. All the Babies is a child’s first book about adoption. Author Kate Rietema introduces readers to eleven different kids who all entered their families in unique ways. With sweet illustrations of diverse families and children, kids will see people who remind them of themselves and their own families. This book features the following kinds of adoption:

  *Domestic adoption
  *International adoption
  *Kids adopted into big families
  *Single-parent adoption
  *Kids adopted by family members
  *Older-child adoption
  *And much more!

  The sentences are fun and simple, laying the foundation for future conversations about adoption, diversity, and belonging. By highlighting aspects of being adopted that might make a child feel different from their siblings or peers, All the Babies celebrates God’s creative design. Our differences make us special.

  “All the babies are different and special.
  All the babies are made by God.
  All the babies are loved–forever and always.”

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  When God Makes Scribbles Beautiful

  $14.99

  Sometimes, hard things happen. Sometimes, they happen to children. According to the National Survey of Children’s Health, over 34 million children have experienced one or more types of adverse childhood experiences or potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood.

  When God Makes Scribbles Beautiful helps kids trust that God can take even the hardest things and make them beautiful. This picture book imagines that the hard things in a child’s life is a scribble following him everywhere. The child can’t get rid of the scribble, no matter how hard he tries. Over time, he realizes that God is with him even though the scribble is there too. Eventually, God turns the boy’s scribble into something beautiful: like a cloud in the sky or a steppingstone that leads him somewhere amazing.

  Ultimately, When God Makes Scribbles Beautiful gives young readers spiritual encouragement to plant seeds of hope in the face of difficult childhood experiences.

  “He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but no one can discover the work God has done from beginning to end.” – Ecclesiastes 3:11

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