Dear Children of the Earth: A Letter from Home

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Summary: The best book to come along in a long time
Review: "Dear Children" is the book most people wish they could have written. Intelligent, touching and personal, this book's message will reach individuals of all ages. Few books have the power to confirm the connectivity between all living things, stress the role each of us plays in survival and encourage the reader's self esteem. Schimmel manages to do all this and create some of the most stunning illustrations I have ever seen. This book will earn itself a permanent spot in your collection!

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Summary: this is a great book
Review: bought this for my son. a great way to teach kids to respect and take care of Mother Earth. illustrations are absolutely beautiful and the text is easy to read. one of my son's favorite books.

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Summary: A Letter from Our Planet
Review: Every year I read this book to my students, then I pass it to the other teachers who also read the book to their students. Students and teachers find it fastinating and moving. It leads to a great discussion of what we can do to save the earth. It is great for the start of a Earth Day or Conservation Unit!

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Summary: This Book was Very Warm and Touching
Review: Hi! My name is Jacqueline. For all you people out there who like touching stories and animals, boy do I have the right book series for you. Well, there is this really cool author named Schim Schimmel. Here is one of his books, Dear Children of the Earth: A Letter from Home. It is about how Mother Earth and the animals that live there need you. Here are two of his sentences in the book, "My children, when my people do a little thing to me, it becomes a big thing. So it is very important for each person to stop doing things that hurt me, or hurt their sister and brother animals." The book is a very touching and heartwarming story. It made me feel like the animals were my friends. It is very easy to read. I would recommend it to five year olds and up. I only read two books. I hope you read all of them. I can't tell you any more but you can find out!

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Summary: Very touching
Review: I guess I am over-sensitive but the first time I read this book I cried. Its like a letter that Mother Earth is writting to her children. Its a great book. I read it to the kids where I work and they enjoyed it, and they LOVED the pictures.

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Summary: Very touching
Review: I guess I am over-sensitive but the first time I read this book I cried. Its like a letter that Mother Earth is writting to her children. Its a great book. I read it to the kids where I work and they enjoyed it, and they LOVED the pictures.

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Summary: Touching and breathtaking
Review: I have to disagree with the reviewer from the horn book. This is a fantastic book for children and adults. It teaches one of the most important lessons there is, with stunningly beautiful illustrations. My 5 year old daughter and I spend lots of time looking at the pictures, trying to find all the animals and planets, and talking about what the author was trying to say with each picture. She loves it, and so do I.

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Summary: Great book for the Environmentalist Wacko!
Review: This book is nothing but a propaganda piece meant to indoctrinate children in the agenda of the environmental extremist. It repeats the mantra of the environmentalist that man is bad, earth is good and mean, bad man is destroying the earth. Our family does not hold these views and I would not read this book to my children. In addition, anyone with a Judeo-Christian worldview will be appalled at the blatant elevation of the earth as an object of worship ("Mother Earth" tells us she is in fact our mother. Her name is always capitalized as is the word "Home" and we are told she loves us and wants us to love her.) In addition, the animals are elevated to be "our brothers and sisters" which is contrary to what the bible teaches. Nice illustrations, but I can do without the political message and unbiblical view of environmentalism.

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Summary: A Book for All Ages
Review: This book is one that people of all ages will cherish. In gentle language and dramatic illustrations artist Schim Shimmel reminds us that we are all children of the earth. This fragile planet and the living things upon it depend on us for their survival. It is a message we all need to hear.