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Summary: One of the best
Review: My child struggles with her self-esteem and I found this book to be a sweet and powerful message for her. Kids get so many mixed messages and some hold on to the negative ones. I personally would recommend this for every child.
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Summary: Doesn't belong in a public school
Review: I was pretty surprised when my daughter brought this book home as homework. It's a thinly-veiled attempt to push the creationist agenda and shouldn't be anywhere near a public school.
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Summary: A must have
Review: Wemmicks, wooden people built by Eli, spend their days awarding stars and dots based on looks and abilities. The better you are, the more stars you receive. The more clumsy, the more chipped paint, the more gray dots. Punchinello feels doomed to more of the same until he meets a girl to whom no stars or dots will stick. I taught a couple special needs students whose inabilities made them feel conspicuous. This book caught their attention, and they began to discover how much they truly could do.
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Summary: Beautifully written tale.
Review: A friend gave me this book a few years ago when I was feeling down about myself. I cried throughout most of the book, it was so touching. Little Punchinello lives in a town of wooden people called "Wemmicks" where all those who are talented and/or beautiful get special stickers but those who aren't get gray dots. Unfortunately, Punchinello is in the latter category. Sad, he goes to visit his "maker" to find the answers of why some are special and some are not. A tale that people of all ages can relate to!
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Summary: What a wonderful story!!
Review: What a story of God's love for us! Beautifully written (as are all Max Lucado's works) and wonderfully illustrated, it captures the attention and emotions of all ages. After I read this to our youth group all I saw were wide eyes, most with tears running from them. Not from sadness, but from the joy our Maker has for us. Children learn the love an acceptance of God, and learn to treat others the way God treats them.A must for every child's library!
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Summary: A major gift of love and acceptance . . .
Review: Until my sister told me of this book, I would never have even given it a second look. Max Lucado is not my favorite author by any stretch of the imagination, but this one goes above and beyond any of those deep instructional books he and others have sent out to the world. It's simple, and the story goes right to the heart of the reader. It's definitely a great purchase for yourself or as a gift for others. The story is about a land where beautiful people receive stars, and those not-so-beautiful people receive spots. The Stars naturally all hang out together. The Spots don't really have a group - like us they tend to feel scorned and lonely after awhile. This story is about Punchinello, a small lad with more spots than most, who just wants to be liked. He learns of the Woodcarver who made them all, and gets the courage to visit . . . and begins to just sit and talk like a friend with his maker. My sis gave it to me as a gift - she said I was one of those strange people that loved kids' stories (and I hope I always will!), but would still get the real meaning behind it. Well, I did. I hope you'll take the chance to read it, and see just what a great story it is, too.
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Summary: Special Tallent
Review: I really enjoyed You Are Special. I would recommend it. I like it because someone learns that what God thinks is moor important than what other people think.
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Summary: Love this book..makes my cry!
Review: I love this book..it's such a wonderful story..and I love to hear my 3 year old say, Mommy, read You are Special! I don't know that he really understands the story, but he loves it and I love to read it. It's such a wonderful feel good story that teaches about God and Love . What a warm fuzzy to read before prayers and night night time. I'M soooooooooooooooooo GLAD we bought this book. GET IT! You won't be sorry. We're going to buy it for all our cousins as gifts.
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Summary: Special Book
Review: I used to read this book to my campers when I was a counselor at a Christian summer camp. The message is that our creator, God, loves us for who we are - he made us who we are. Whenever we feel inadequate in this world, all we need to do is remember God's love for us. When we do that all those negative things that people see about us and even those that we have started to believe ourselves will disappear. This story is included in Lucado's book, The Book of Secrets. This excerpt from that book is enhanced by Martinez's wonderful illustrations. Why 5 stars?: This book is wonderfully written and illustrated. The message is one that all children (and adults) need to remember. God is able to see past what others do. He looks not only at our surface, but what is inside. He made us the way we are for a reason and he loves us because we are all so different.
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Summary: You can never be too old to read this.
Review: I recently received this book during a time when I was struggling with office politics at work (yes- I am 31). This book was a source of inspiration. It reminds us that if we were all the same, life would be boring. It's the differences that make us special and God loves every one of those differences in each of us.
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