Books with author Ray Buck

The people of the forest are amazed at the beauty and swiftness of She Who Flies Swiftly. She is like a bright jewel among the leafy trees. But one day they find her lying with a broken wing on the forest floor. Suddenly the Creator is there, holding her in his hand. Afterward the others wait for her to fly, but she no longer can. The forest people cannot understand - wasn't she healed by the Creator? Finally they leave her and in her sorrow she begins to sing. The song becomes more and more beautiful. Her voice is joined by that of the Creator. This story helps us to see that healing can come in many different ways.

Multi-cultural stories relate five of the parables Jesus told. In "Sarai Sees Jesus", a child of Bible times learns what Jesus meant in the story of the good neighbor; "The Little Seed That Grew" relates the parable of the mustard seed through its growth in a Hispanic farm village; in "Keetah's Special Day", a Native Amercian child learns through watching the storytelling dancers that God's love is like that of a forgiving father; in "Jody Learns About Good Soil", as Asian American child learns that we can help God by making our lives good places to grow things, and in"Kweisi and the Two Houses", an African child learns that God's live is like a house built on a rock. Ages 6­-8.

The Native American tradition of the give-away takes a new form in this engaging dialogue between the Whooping Crane, the Snow Goose, Old Beaver, Grandmother Turtle, the Wind, the Ancient One, and the Creator as well as others. Children of all ages will learn that giving is more than just gifting; it is denying oneself so that another may have a better way.

A young boy discovers the depth of the Creator's love and forgiveness as he accompanies his grandmother to deliver Christmas gifts. Earlier in the year the three young men who received the gifts cruelly hurt both grandmother and grandson, pushing them down in the snow and taking their coats and Grandmother’s moccasins. In this true story told from his own childhood, Ray Buckley tells how Grandmother labored through the year to produce moccasins for each of the young men that were of extraordinary design and loveliness. In her giving and through her forgiveness she draws the young men into the compassion of God’s love. Walking back through the trees, her grandson realizes that same love has made the two of them truly free.