Books with author Christine Reed

In this deluxe storybook and play CD pack, toddlers and preschoolers have a chance to hum along with the tunes they all recognize from Nick Jr.'s wildly popular show, Dora the Explorer. Includes music player with handle and 4 music discs. Dora's Mami says she can have her friends for a sleepover. It starts out with an adventure--Dora makes written invitations for everyone, but they get blown away by the wind. Can she find them and get her party ready before her guests arrive? A happy ending has Dora with plenty of friends, food, and fun at the sleepover. Four play CDs of popular Latino music plus top tunes from the "Dora the Explorer" TV show provide a musical backdrop for this original storybook. Selected Spanish lyrics are included, making this a songbook as well. A removable plastic music player comes with each pack.

Look first at one photo, then at the other: they're almost the same, but not quite. Children may have to search carefully to find the subtle differences between each image, but they-and their parents-will instantly realize what sets this collection of 100 puzzles apart from others. Each puzzle is a beautifully composed color photograph, rich in detail, and they're all arranged in categories such as seasons, animals, travel, and holidays. The appealing pictures include flame colored trees in fall, a lioness and her cubs, and bridges, boats, and buses.Kids will love exploring each image, hone their powers of observation, and enjoy the feeling of pride when they spy all the changes.

Charlie Bean Goes Home is the heartwarming tale of the adoption of a shelter dog. Charlie Bean spends his days in the shelter dreaming of a family of his own. People of all ages come to the shelter every day to adopt dogs, but Charlie Bean never gets a turn. Then one day, a new couple arrives at the shelter to look at dogs. Will they be the family to finally give Charlie Bean a happy home?

While using their smarts to find six differences between every pair of near-matching pictures, kids will simply enjoy examining the many marvelous vehicles each image displays. There's a copter with a sky-high view of the world below; a railway station with long, streamlined trains on the tracks; a bicyclist speeding along on his wheels; an elevated subway passing by big skyscrapers; and ships at sea. It’s a challenge and a visual delight.

In Where's God? author and grandmother Christine Louise Roess shows children the reality of God's formless nature in a simple, fun way children can easily understand. God wants to have fun with all creatures and so creates the game of hide and seek. Where can One who exists everywhere hide? Because God really wants to be found, God hides in our own hearts and is known by feelings of love and playfulness.Accompanied by beautiful illustrations, and ideal for beginning readers, Roess's parable of a playful God is ideal for parents looking for opportunities to make God accessible and understandable to small children. It's time to play the greatest game of hide-and-seek in the universe!

Charlie Bean Goes Home is the heartwarming tale of the adoption of a shelter dog. Charlie Bean spends his days in the shelter dreaming of a family of his own. People of all ages come to the shelter every day to adopt dogs, but Charlie Bean never gets a turn. Then one day, a new couple arrives at the shelter to look at dogs. Will they be the family to finally give Charlie Bean a happy home?

When Zero realized that he did not have any value he became very sad and tried to fit in where he did not belong. This story tells what happens when The Zero decides to cooperate."Why the Zero was Sad" was written to give a creative look at the numbers from zero to ten. It will help young children learn to count in an amusing way, and also introduce young children to the rhyming of words.

The use of child soldiers in the Sudan Civil War has shattered the accepted understanding of why children join armies. Thousands of children signed up to participate in Africa's longest running civil war, yet so far the international community and the academic world have viewed them as victims rather than participants. In this groundbreaking new study, Christine Emily Ryan challenges preconceptions which have held back aid work and reconstruction in the Sudan region. Using face-to-face testimonies of former child soldiers, she illuminates the multi-dimensional motivations which children have for joining the Sudan Liberation Army, and unravels the complexity of their political participation. At the same time, interviews with NGO personnel illustrate the gap that exists between the West and the reality of conflict in Africa. Children of War provides a powerful critique of the position taken by the international community, NGOs and academia to the phenomenon of child soldiers, and calls for a new approach to conflict resolution in Africa.