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Summary: This Book Will Make Your Heart Smile.
Review: This book shows how true freedom for us comes by not being enslaved to the opinions of others. Max Lucado tells the story to communicate to children (and most DEFINITELY to adults as well) that by taking time to experience and remember God's love for us, we can have a deep joy that isn't contingent upon whether people bestow praise (represented by gold stars) or insults (grey dots) upon us. This is a book that I think everyone should read every morning before we start our day, because this simple story illustrates a truth that is essential to our peace, yet so hard for us to keep ahold of. Thank you Max, for reminding us of our infinite and unchanging worth.
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Summary: Applies In So Many Ways
Review: I am not especially religious, and a recovering Catholic, so when my friend asked me to read this as a bedtime story to my godson (aged 3) and his older brother (6) I was skeptical. What a great story! I was quite literally moved to tears by the powerful message of love, equality in God's eyes and acceptance of others who are different.As a gay man, with 5 nephews, 1 niece and 5 godchildren, books like this which reinforce messages of love and acceptance for children give me great hope, since children must be taught to hate or condemn. Mercifully, they can also be taught to love and accept God's work in all of us. Without being heavy-handed or "preachy," this is a great book for parents who want to raise loving, open-minded children, regardless of denomination.
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Summary: Awesome Message!!!
Review: This book is an awesome tale with a message for young children. This book teaches children to love themselves just as they are, no matter what anyone else says. This book is good for the heart and soul. It even helped me to learn a lesson or two. This is one book I would recommend to all parents for their children.
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Summary: this is such an awesome book! it made me cry it was so sweet
Review: i really loved this book it has definite religous themes and i am not a religious person but thinking that someone was always there to help me made me feel really good i wanted to run out and call all of the people a know and tell them how much i love them! i have read this book to lots of small children and they loved it but it is also great for teenagers college students and adults. great messages, beautiful illustrations(some times i just go through and look at the pictures!), and a truly heart warming story highly suggested for everyone! thanks!
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Summary: Uplifting!
Review: There aren't many books that deliver a positive message to children - I love you no matter what, just because you're you, and it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks! It is never too early to teach this message to our children. If they do not hear positive and reinforcing words from their parents they will hear negative and degrading words from others. I took this book to work to show my coworkers after it was given to my daughter, and my supervisor said, with tears in her eyes, "any little girl who grows up hearing that message is going to do all right in this world." Buy this book for your child, your grandchild, read it to your Sunday School class, and often. The illustrations are also beautiful!
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Summary: Wonderful parable for children
Review: My family found this book heartwarming. While relaying the message that what others think of you doesn't matter if you don't let it the book entertains and endears you to it's main character Punchinello. While the message has religious undertones it does not preach or relay any specific references to faith. My 5 year old son LOVES this story.
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Summary: A Special Book
Review: Whever you feel like life is beating you up so hard that nothing can take the burden off you sholders, there are book that sometimes teach you the unspoken words that you need it to hear. In "You are special", Max Lucado makes it clear: there is in every person a character like Punchinello, but to evfery Puchinello there is a Personage (a Beign greater that the knowledge of man can capture) like Eli who can wrap you in His love and make those hard moments fade away. This book ends with the ritual thoughts of mankind: "What are other thinking of me?" or "Am I special to anyone in this world?" It expands the persuasive emotions of being love by Someone that sometimes in this fast-going world we forget to give a minute of our thoughts. It opens the door to be more spiritual and less skeptical. Also, this book is really easy to follow because the language is simple. The illustrations are GREAT!! It really give a feel to the story. Beside the Book of Mormon and the Bible, this book has tought me that indeed God love me and that He exists. To me, personally, there is no greater reward or medal in this world that God's love because He created me, a simple person in the immense world. The money you spent in this book will be worth it. p.s. GOD LOVE YOU & ME.
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Summary: An all-time favorite!
Review: I first encountered this book when one of my students brought it to school. It has since become one of my all-time favorite books! It has a beautiful message of self-love. This is the first book that I buy for every new child that comes into my life!
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Summary: Sort of OK..
Review: The basic idea is that what matters is not what anyone else
thinks about you, but what God thinks about you. Nothing wrong with that. However, what is missing, is the idea that
Love is not the same thing as Tolerance, and
you shouldn't call good what is bad, or bad what is good. I would not want a child to think that God loves them,
therefore it doesn't matter what s/he does. Other books by this author I read were, Best of All, and
You are Mine, and I was very unhappy with them.
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Summary: Can even teach us old college students something
Review: as a senior in college, I first heard this book read to us at Prime Time christian fellowship at my university. there was not a dry eye in the house, this lesson needs to be taught to everyone. excellent book.
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