Recounts the events surrounding the birth of Jesus, from the angel's announcement to Mary to the visit of the Wise Men in Bethlehem.

As God thinks about light and darkness, water and land, plants and animals--and people--the world is created.

Shares the life of the French naturalist, including his childhood in the French countryside, his life-long interest in insects, and how he eventually met the president of France.

A simple retelling in rhyming verse of the Biblical story from Genesis in which Noah builds an ark which saves him and his family from the flood waters that cover the earth.

A contented whale one day sees a ship tossed on the waves by a storm and obeys God's command to save a drowning man by swallowing him.

After the Christmas cakes which Lucas and his father make for everyone in their Italian village disappear, Lucas sets out to discover what has become of them.

Although the prayer of St. Francis is widely known and loved by people of all ages, here is a new slant a children's book that brings the prayer to life with tenderness, wonder and joy. A gentle, loving wolf is the protector and helper to his little forest friends, bringing them light to banish darkness, joy to counter their sadness, even contemplating the sunset with his arm around his friend the sheep. A short history of St. Francis and of the prayer...