Product Details Hardcover Publisher: Simon &amp; Schuster; First Edition edition (October 1987) Language: English ISBN-10: 0671640631 ISBN-13: 978-0671640637 Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 0.7 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds Average Customer Review: Be the first to review this item Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,798,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Our Christmas Book

Politics & Social Sciences

Pelikan, Judy

Social Sciences

Simon&Schuster

Hardcover, Illuminated Volume, The Words of Christ.

The Words of Christ: An Illuminated Volume

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

William Morrow & Co.

Parents record every milestone-from the first smile to the first day at school-in a child's baby book for posterity. Thanks to best-selling author Judith Levy, adoptive parents can now express their joy and love for a child in a baby book created especially for them. Our Chosen Child omits the traditional space for recording details about the pregnancy, labor, and delivery, highlighting instead the special preparations adoptive parents make and the excitement and anticipation they feel.In Our Chosen Child, adoptive parents can record family history and all the milestones of childhood through high school graduation. Additionally, Our Chosen Child includes the milestones that an adoptive family achieves. A page entitled "Waiting for You" acknowledges the many steps along the journey to becoming an adoptive family, such as completing a home study and getting references. On the page entitled "When We First Saw You" parents can capture the special moment when they first meet their intended child, whether as a newborn or as a five-year-old. The happy memories of the day the adoption is finalized are recorded on the "Adoption Day" page.Each page features original poetry by Judith Levy, such as this loving dedication: "You had a journey to make, A trip to come through, To parents who were praying, And waiting for you." Judy Pelikan's tender illustrations grace every page, making this book a beautiful keepsake.All adoptive parents will want to complete this treasury of memories for their own "chosen child."

Our Chosen Child: How You Came To Us And The Growing Up Years

Parenting & Relationships

Levy, Judith

Adoption

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Instill a lifelong love of reading in children. Created by Judy Pelikan, Books Make Me Happy is the perfect gift for a beginning reader, an interactive journal that encourages reading. It begins where classroom reading logs end―title, author, illustrator―and offers prompts that knit the bond between story and reader more deeply, such as "My favorite part of the book was..." and "I will recommend this book to a friend because..." There are fill-ins where kids can list their favorite books, draw scenes from a story, and write about the pleasures they get from reading. Throughout are full-color embroidered illustrations based on real children's drawings about their love of books. Also included are five pages of stickered bookplates that kids can customize and use to personalize their own books. For children, Books Make Me Happy is an invaluable tool to inspire first-time readers to become lifelong readers. For parents, it's both a keepsake and a rare window into the mind of their child at a particularly interesting time.

Books Make Me Happy: My First Reading Log

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Workman Publishing Company

The Heart's Journey is a universal story of love, loss, and the growing process that leads to greater self-knowledge. The tale of a heart that encounters pain and suffering only to be healed by the power and security of love, this story transcends language and speaks directly to our emotions. Artist Judy Pelikan's heartfelt and lovingly rendered illustrations depict the human heart's strength and capacity for love so eloquently and persuasively that words are hardly needed. An inspiration and a joy to anyone who has encountered emotional hardship and who knows, or will know, that the heart is a resilient muscle, The Heart's Journey is the perfect gift for somebody who needs to remember that the heart always emerges triumphant.

The Heart's Journey

Abbeville Press

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Nothing pulls a family closer together than the birth of a child. From the moment a new baby arrives, everything changes. Baby's Scrapbook helps family members celebrate and remember this special time by offering ideas for creating scrapbook pages that provide a detailed look at a child's first year. The first part of the book covers the basics: organizing and journaling thoughts; conceptualizing and designing a page; cropping, matting, and framing photos; using stickers and borders; and creating special effects. Shape templates are included, as well as four-color printed papers and alphabet stickers. The second part of the book presents 48 single-page, beautifully color illustrated, removable mounting sheets enclosed in protective poly sleeves organized by topics and themes. A pocket separator offers a special place to hold templates, papers, photos, and other memorabilia to easily preserve this special time.

Baby's Scrapbook

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Universe

Thoughts to warm the heard and nurture the soul.

Peace

Stewart. Tabori & Chang

With over one million copies sold through 33 printings, Grandmother Remembers by Judith Levy and Judy Pelikan is the perennial bestseller. Now designed and illustrated to be its companion piece is the Grandmother Remembers Songbook. Here is a musical heirloom of 40 classic songs such as "Frere Jacques," "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," and "Rockabye Baby." The lyrics are complete for each song; accompanying music is notated for piano and guitar.

Grandmother Remembers Songbook

One hundred years ago, F. Schuyler Mathews, an erudite naturalist and birder, theorized that birds sing first for love of music, and second for love of the lady. To expand on his theory, he actually scored the songs of birds in the wild. His charming text and bird-by-bird annotations were compiled into a guide called Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music. This extraordinary work has now been lavishly illustrated and adapted for a new audience. Each bird is meticulously rendered by artist Judy Pelikan in full-color illustrations that feature not only the birds, but also their nests, eggs, and feathers. And every song is represented by its written musical score, which Mathews expertly explains in a way that both musicians and non-musicians can enjoy. As Mathews points out, the music of wild birds is everywhere--in poems, children's nursery songs, as well as in the works of the great composers: the Black-billed Cuckoo's call appears near the close of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony; the Nashville Warbler's song is found in the opening bars of Rossini's Carovale, and the Meadowlark's song is remarkably like the first two bars of Alfredo's song in La Traviata. He reveals how a bird's character is reflected in its song: the Baltimore Oriole is a sharp-billed, sharp-witted character, and his remarks are as incisive and crisp as the toots of a steam whistle. And he reminds us of the words of our great poets--Wordsworth, Emerson, Sir Walter Scott--and their descriptions of the very same birds and their music. This classic, useful, and completely original guide will put a song into the heart of novice and experienced birder alike.

The Music of Wild Birds: An Illustrated, Annotated, and Opinionated Guide to Fifty Birds and Their Songs

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Algonquin Books

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Our Christmas Book

The Words of Christ: An Illuminated Volume

Our Chosen Child: How You Came To Us And The Growing Up Years

Books Make Me Happy: My First Reading Log

The Heart's Journey

The Heart's Journey

Baby's Scrapbook

Peace

Grandmother Remembers Songbook

The Music of Wild Birds: An Illustrated, Annotated, and Opinionated Guide to Fifty Birds and Their Songs