Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Posted: Sept 15 2007 at 7:33pm | IP Logged Quote Cay Gibson

What picture book has touched your heart and soul and speaks mainly to you, the mother, more so than the child in your lap whenever you read it?

I would really like to know.

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Posted: Sept 15 2007 at 8:14pm | IP Logged Quote KristinaP

Neat question!

I get choked up every time I read The Little Rose of Sharon by Nan Gurley to the kids and The King by Beth Moore really sheds a new light on God's love for us, even and especially when we "misbehave". I'm always touched by the fact that He not only forgives us but also helps us to clean up our mess, too.
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Posted: Sept 15 2007 at 8:27pm | IP Logged Quote chicken lady

The Weight of a Mass. So beautiful.
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Posted: Sept 16 2007 at 5:19pm | IP Logged Quote SeaStar

One we have called "Love You Forever". That will choke you up by the end.

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Posted: Sept 16 2007 at 6:57pm | IP Logged Quote KackyK

I second "Love You Forever"! I stopped reading it because it was getting harder to hide the tears

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Posted: Sept 16 2007 at 8:11pm | IP Logged Quote missionfamily

Just in Case You Ever Wonder and when I'm pregnant, Angel in the Waters...cry all the time when I'm reading to the kids though, they're totally used to it and don't even comment any more...good training for when they have hormonal wives , or women in their confessional

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Posted: Oct 11 2007 at 3:17pm | IP Logged Quote doris

The Lady of Guadalupe by Tomie de Paola.

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Posted: Oct 11 2007 at 3:30pm | IP Logged Quote KellyJ

Now One Foot, Now the Other by Tomie DePaola
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde

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Posted: Oct 11 2007 at 5:10pm | IP Logged Quote aussieannie

The Princess and the Kiss - I think it speaks to absolutely everybody but as a mother, it does especially if you have lived the fulfillment of what it so beautifully portrays and then you hope to capture & convey that same love and beauty of this virtue through this book for your own children.

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Posted: Oct 11 2007 at 5:58pm | IP Logged Quote Nina Murphy

READY, Cay?

I went through my shelves:

Coal Mine Peaches---Dionetti
Sophie's Masterpiece--Spinelli
The Country Bunny---Du Bose Heyward
Cookies: Bite-Sized Life Lessons---Rosenthal
Let's Go Home---Rylant
Mr. Putter series--Rylant
The Story of Holly and Ivy---Godden/Cooney
The Crippled Lamb---Lucado
A Small Miracle---Collington
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream---illus. Mayhew
From Me to You---Rogers
Bub, or The Very Best Thing---Babbitt
Stopping By Woods---illus. Jeffers
Miracle of the Potato Latkes---Penn
Yonder---Johnston
Heckedy Peg--Wood
Baby in a Blanket---Rand
I'm His Lamb---Dandi Mackall
Just in Case You Ever Wonder---Lucado
The Tale of Three Trees
Sister Anne's Hands
The Trellis and the Seed---Karon
The Garden Wall---Bishop
The Spider and the Fly---Howitt
Mama Loves---Goode
Time for Bed---Fox
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star---Trapani
The Selfish Giant---Waters
Warm as Wool---Sanders
The Best-Loved Doll---Caudill
Sootface---D. San Souci
Little Gold Star---D. San Souci
The Rag Coat---Mills
The Bear that Heard Crying---Kinsey-Warnock
When the Sun Rose and Donkey's Dream---Berger
Rainbabies---Melmed
Fritz and the Beautiful Horses---Brett
Littlest Matryoshka---Bliss
The Legend of the Bluebonnet---de Paola
Seven Silly Eaters
Swan Lake and Little Match Girl---Isadora
Dear Mili---Sendak


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Posted: Oct 11 2007 at 6:02pm | IP Logged Quote Magnificat

One of my absolute favorites is Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney. It makes me think of my grandfather...


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Posted: Oct 12 2007 at 6:06am | IP Logged Quote lilac hill

All the Places to Love by Patricia Maclachlan

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Posted: Oct 12 2007 at 7:03am | IP Logged Quote Patty LeVasseur

Nina,
Thanks for the list. I have a lot of those, but some of those I haven't heard of. Now to see if my library has them.

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Posted: Oct 12 2007 at 11:51am | IP Logged Quote Nina Murphy

Oh, good, Patty.   I found it surprisingly quick to do---very close to my heart! Books are like oxygen!

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Posted: Oct 12 2007 at 2:45pm | IP Logged Quote Kathryn UK

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Twomey, by Susan Wojciechowski.

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I am one who could cuddle up by myself with a blanket, picture book, and a cuppa and just bawl my eyes out. I'm so weird!   

So many books have left a mark on me, but especially
Miss Rumphius
Letting Swift River Go
The Old Woman Who Named Things
The Cats in Krasinski Square
All Those Secrets of the World
A Packet of Seeds
The Hard Times Jar
Henry's Freedom Box
The Gardener
The Lemonade Club
The Butterfly (I don't read it to my dc yet, just to myself)
The Bee Tree
Owl Moon
Leah's Pony
Who Owns the Sun
The Rag Coat
An Orange for Frankie
Christmas Tapestry
Pink and Say
Train to Somewhere

I will stop. If you plan on checking out my list from the library, stop somewhere to grab a box of kleenex, too. I can honestly say that I *love* these books.
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Posted: Oct 13 2007 at 4:49pm | IP Logged Quote Anne

Kathryn UK wrote:
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Twomey, by Susan Wojciechowski.


I second this one and 3rd Love You Forever

others include
The Raft by Jim Lamarche

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein I recieved this as a child for first communion. I have never been able to read it without crying even as a child. Very powerful book.
Great topic Cay


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Posted: Oct 13 2007 at 5:35pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM

ami* wrote:
A Packet of Seeds
Second that one.

Also Miracle of Saint Nicholas.

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Posted: Oct 13 2007 at 6:03pm | IP Logged Quote aussieannie

I've been thinking and looking through my bookcase and there are two that make my voice wobble and my eyes moisten, every single time:

The Clown of God - my heart feels initially for the little orphan boy and then at his death, which touches my heart deeply without some of the concerns that some more sensitive children may have with the scene.

The Legend of the Poinsettia - I feel once again as a mother for the pain and sorrow of Lucinda, trying so hard to complete her mother's special blanket and then I really choke at the words, "I can't" Lucinda told her. "I don't have a gift for the Baby Jesus." The children just LOVE that scene (just to watch mum more than anything else.)

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Last night we read for the first time, The Acrobat and the Angel and God Bless the Gargoyles, and I tell you, did they both choke me up.    I should have read them ahead of time to be prepared for the emotion they caused.
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