My Own Book of Prayers

By Carolyn Cox
Abingdon Press, $11.95

ISBN 068701879X

Child's Own Prayer Book

Help our lips to praise you;
Help our hands to serve you;
Help our hearts to love you.

A prayer as appropriate for grownups as for children. And chances are if you learned it as a child, you are still saying it.

Now you can have the joy of saying that prayer and almost a hundred others with a special child as you share My Own Book of Prayers, compiled by Mary Batchelor. The large book with full-color illustrations can be spread across two laps for bedtime reading.

Recommended for ages 4-8, the prayers are arranged by themes, beginning with the child's world of "Me" and progressing through prayers for school activities, playtimes, animals, sad days, happy days (Sunday, Christmas, birthdays, etc.). Many of them are written in rhyme. Each grouping is introduced with an important interpretation that helps the child, and perhaps an uncertain adult, get in touch with the Lord and have the right frame of mind for the prayers that follow. A great gift choice for young ones, the book has a beautifully illustrated presentation panel inside the front cover.

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