Books with author Jim Billingsley

This exquisitely beautiful book by Mary Billingsley presents the rosary for children, but I might add – for children of all ages. When I first saw a few of the paintings, I wondered if it was wise to portray Christ, Our Lady, and the other participants in the drama of the rosary as puppet or manikin figures. But the idea very much grew on me and, as I now see the final outcome of Mary’s work, I’m completely captivated. This is a rosary book for young and old.

Can a number determine your worth? That’s the question children in the colony ask until age ten, when a single test seals their future. Beth, a Number Four forced to work on a cleaning crew, hates her necklace of four beads, which identifies her as a lower worker … a nothing. She covets the foods and possessions of the Higher Ups in a society where everything is “fair” and perfectly ordered. Stories of the scorched land above—the duslans—convince Beth she will never leave the colony. When a strange pale man appears with hints she may not be a Number Four, Beth learns everything she knows is a lie. But without her Number, who is she?