Books with author Amy Parker

Cuddle up with your little ones and count all the blessings God put in their day. This book is a precious way to put your little ones to bed at night and fill their thoughts with the many good things that have filled their day. It's a great way to teach them gratitude and help them sleep soundly at night. Whether it's Mommy's goodnight kisses, Grandpa's comfy lap, or pancakes stacked THIS high, there are so many blessings to count before bed! Written in rhyme and coupled with adorable illustrations, this follow up book to best-selling Night Night Prayer will be an instant bedtime hit.

As the sky gets darker and the stars shine brighter, it's time to say night night! with seven favorite bedtime stories from the bestselling Night Night series. Little wild ones who have trouble winding down will love the animals getting ready for bed in Night Night, Farm and Night Night, Jungle. Keep bedtime on track with Night Night, Train. Tuck your kids in with precious reminders of your love with Night Night, Mommy and Night Night, Daddy. And end your day with sweet reminders of all the good things God provides with A Night Night Prayer and Night Night Blessings. Your little ones will rest their sleepy heads knowing that the God who made them loves them so.

Snuggle in this holiday season and offer up A Christmas Prayer. In the tradition of A Night Night Prayer, this precious little child wanders through the house on a snowy Christmas night offering a prayer of thanks and blessing. The child finishes with thanks to God for the greatest Gift of all. Noting all the characters in the Nativity, this lovable little nighttime prayer book has interactive dialogue and soothing rhyme for a child to repeat as they look around their world at Christmastime. Between the soft Christmas glow of the illustrations and the smooth rhythm of the child's prayer, A Christmas Prayer will make every parent and child want to snuggle up by the tree and offer a prayer of thanks to God for His many Christmas blessings.

What makes a bird of prey so intriguing? What is so enrapturing about them? So cool? Is it the long, arched and ebony colored hooks? These are not nails, not claws, but specifically named as their primal possession: talons are the key feature for grabbing and seizing by raptors. Their coarse sandpaper foot pads, their long legs that are usually folded and hidden as part of the body, their wings and tail built for specific types of air mastery, and their eyesight keen beyond our understanding – these mystify us all in their uniqueness of design and use. The very rarity of hawk, eagle, and owl sightings causes us to wonder all the more. But perched as they are at the top of the food chain, they are also at greater risk. This relational position makes them automatically an unintended target of our careless stewardship of the wild. A natural indicator dial of our mismanagement of earth, they are also a sensible target for restoration.A Hope for Wings relates stories of relationships to eagles, hawks, and owls from the perspective of a field biologist, falconer, and student of raptor behavior. The author spent most of his professional life releasing and monitoring bald eagles, peregrine falcons, barn owls, and osprey in the Ohio Valley states. This story of their recovery is personalized by his intimate relationships to these awe inspiring birds. Their individual natures as well as their biological and behavioral characteristics are revealed in stories of incidents that occurred during the years of hacking and follow-up investigation. The book is also a clarion call for bringing the conservation movement back to the importance of relationships. When our interactions are viewed in terms of us against them, people apart from nature, and progress vs. protection dichotomies, we find no way to heal that which is injured – no means of finding a wholeness. As harm is detected in the wild world, we seek fixes from science. But science alone leaves out the heart of people – one of the key ingredients for why we want to see things made right. In our fight against irreverence and disrespect for wildlife we often forget one of those heart weapons – hope. Conservation needs hope for wholeness. In these tales, may you find your own.

These wonderful titles are daily, pocket prayers for children in grades 2-8, and while they can be used in a variety of settings, like Bible studies, they are particularly easy to use during school wide A Moment of Silence times. Teachers involved in Released Time Programs* also find these devotionals to be very effective and easy to use. The 47 prayers are each available in a tear out sheet, which features a child-friendly, Christian image. Sharing the prayer with your child before school and / or allowing your child to carry the small paper to school to be read when appropriate is a great way for him or her to stay connected and centered. Includes Thanksgiving and Christmas prayers

Charlie Chick wants to play but he can't find his ball. Can you help him find it? Lift the flaps to see if it's in the pig sty, the kennel, the reeds, or the hen house in this delightful book about friendship, farm animals, and fun! With delightful illustrations by Ant Parker, this sweet, funny story is an ideal way to learn about first animals and their homes.

Follow a once lost and enigmatic secret map, and discover the long forgotten paths, sacred sites and mysterious landmarks of an enchanted and ancient woodland world.Walk in the footsteps of a powerful wizard and sorcerer, custodian of the forest and guardian of the trees and animals. Protector of the fantastic and mystical beasts and creatures of folklore, myth and legend that reside here.Standing stones, barrows and stone circles await, hidden in a bewitching and mesmerising landscape of dreams and imagination. Mist-obscured haunted battlefields and ghostly graves.Spellbound warriors stand sentinel, and watch over the wooded groves and glades, guarding streams, waterfalls, rivers, lakes and snow-capped mountains. Protecting a concealed kingdom bounded by hidden bays and wild wind and wave weathered cliffs, creeks and coves. Where only the most courageous adventurers navigate the perilous tides of the estuaries, and treacherous currents of the straits, sounds and rocky channels.Journey through a dreamscape of the other-worldly, a land of adventure and escape. Seek safe passage through a beautiful and strange wilderland of otherness, enchantment, fantasy and unearthly delights. Embracing and invoking a wild childhood, and conjuring the charms and wildest magic of the natural world. A captivating, haunting and spellbinding ode to nature, and to the cycle of the seasons.A meticulous and exquisite example of the lost words and rediscovered illuminated codex; of illustrated spellcraft in verse and rhyme. Elaborate and entrancing illustration and wordcraft, luminous with the sheen of magic, the summoning of hope, of chanting spells and the songs of invocation, the power of protection, and the promise and rapture of the coming of spring.A beautiful artistic record of magical artifacts, items of beauty and antiquity, spells, potions and healing waters. Intricate original illustrations of optical scopes, magic wands and crystal balls. Dragons, knights in armour, and mysterious longboats. Picturing the wizard’s castle towers, the full moon rising, the hooded archer hunting, and colourful renderings of books of magic, enlightenment and ancient wisdom. Buried swords, arrows and hunting horn. Jewels, gems and treasure unearthed. Cryptic carvings on a great stone monolith.Celtic-inspired artwork, Celtic knotwork and interwoven vines and branches on parchment. Insects, buds, blooms, butterflies and rosehips hide in the borders and margins. Bees, beetles and ladybirds scour the pages. A dragonfly rests amongst the leaves. Spiders spin webs, frogs and newts mingle. Nightshade and mandrake await the cauldron. Magical metamorphosis and transformation.Spells shimmer in morning mist.The wind whispers forgotten incantations, and spring wakes from slumber.In Black Dog Wood magic is stirring ...A modern faerytale.To be contemplated quietly, or read out loud. For readers of all ages.A celebration of magic, sorcery, nature, folklore and legend, and the passing of time and the seasons.