In honor of International Women’s Day, here’s Deborah, interrupting our Easter Love Letters from God blog tour, and marching out of the pages of Girls’ Love Letters to bring you not one, but two, very important announcements…
Sam and Colette here, with a very important announcement…
Did you know that our grandma wrote this book? It’s very good and you should get it for Easter.
Now, I know I’m biased… but seriously, aren’t they the cutest? (Even though I did have to bribe them with jellybeans to get this photo.)
I flew 2000 miles to spend ten days with these two rascals, and since they are ALWAYS on the go, and I’m writing this post during one of their rare nap-times, that’s all have to share.
Except to add…
PLEASE DO read this moving story, shared by my colleague, Vanessa Myers, about one preschool teacher’s experience when reading Easter Love Letters from God. It is so wonderful!
Sophie Allsopp is a children’s illustrator, living and working in the south of England. One glance at the whimsical, lovely illustrations in Easter Love Letters from God is enough to tell you that she is one amazing, talented artist.
One of my favorite features in the book is the inclusion of stamps on each of the lift-the-flap love letters from God, and I’m always anxious to see what images Sophie chooses for them…
Here’s a peek at five of my favorite stamps featured in the book plus your chance to enter the fourth book giveaway… Continue reading
As an author of Christian children’s books, I know that every person picks up a story and reads the text through their own theological lens. It’s quite impossible not to. Equally impossible, then, is the enormous task of an author who tries to placate each reader. And so rather than tie myself in knots, trying to please everyone, I decided, early on in my writing, that I would try to please God.
This is a portion of my interview on the Christians Engaged in Faith Formation blog, where my UMC colleague, Christine Hides, was good enough to interview me about the theology behind Easter Love Letters from God.
Knowing that more liberal Christian audiences might struggle with some of the language in the book and perhaps wonder about my reasoning, I welcome the opportunity to address questions such as these: Continue reading
If you’ve peeked inside the pages of Easter Love Letters from God. you’ll have seen this:
These words won’t make sense to anyone who doesn’t know me well. But my family, my close friends, and my four brothers and three sisters know only too well who the ‘Secret Supper’ maker was…
Let me take you across the Atlantic Ocean, almost fifty years ago, to a red brick home in northern England, where I grew up with my seven siblings… Continue reading
Here’s me, wearing my favorite hat, holding my favorite book…
Easter Love Letters from God, the fifth title in this best-selling series, is now available! To celebrate its release, I have two exciting announcements to share: Continue reading
Yay! The time has arrived! With just one week left until publication of Easter Love Letters from God, my publisher, Zonderkidz, is offering a THREE-BOOK GIVEAWAY! 
Inside the pages of this interactive book, you will find seven stories and seven lift-the-flap love letters from God, each of which can be personally addressed to your child. Last week I shared some of my favorite excerpts from the stories, but here’s a peek inside one of my favorite letters… Continue reading
As an author, there’s nothing quite like the thrill of opening your new book for the very first time, reading the words you wrote and taking in every minute detail of the illustrations, drawn so beautifully by the brilliant Sophie Allsopp.
Easter Love Letters from God, the fifth book in the series, will be in bookstores in less than two weeks but if, like me, you just can’t wait to open it, here’s your sneak peek inside its pages, with some of my favorite extracts and pictures…. Continue reading
Wow! Over 100 people entered the giveaway of the lovely picture book, Maybe God is Like That Too.
And the two winners, who are going to be as happy as this boy from the book are…. Continue reading
It’s early in the morning on this Holy Saturday, and if you’re like me, you must be wondering just what was happening in that quiet Jerusalem cave. Perhaps it was something like this…
Jesus had died. Joseph and Nicodemus were sad. They carefully took Jesus’ body down from the cross. They cleaned him. They wrapped his body in strips of white linen and carried him to a quiet cave on the hillside. They laid Jesus down inside the cave. Then they said goodbye. Before they left, they rolled a big stone over the entrance.
Outside the cave, two guards kept watch. The big heavy stone was sealed in place. And for three whole days, all was still.
But inside that quiet cave God was working. If you tried to peek inside, you couldn’t see anything. No eye could see it. If you stood outside and put your ear to the big stone, you couldn’t hear anything. No ear could hear it. If you tried to imagine what was happening you couldn’t. No mind could imagine it. But inside, God was doing something utterly amazing. Something only God could do. Jesus waited. And the world held its breath and waited with him.
Excerpted from the newest title in the Love Letters series, Easter Love Letters from God, coming January 2018 and now available for preorder.
