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Journeys of Hope: A Star Shall Lead Them

Written & illustrated by Kevin Scott Collier

Guardian Angel Publishing

ISBN: 1-933090-28-6

Copyright 2005

Ebook, 26 pages, $6.00

Children's Picture Book/Christian

Journeys of Hope is a amiable scene ebook that includes v fables: Hope from Above, Follow the Star, Hermit in need a Home, War and Peace, and Eye of the Beholder. The prima of these fables is a deeply cunning angel fish titled Hope.

But Hope is no dreary supernatural being aquatic vertebrate. For one thing, she has means as an alternative of fin. In falsity figure one, she besides carries beside her a signal stealthy. The breakdown is, not everybody in the body of water believes her. They see her surprising narrative as a unusual legend. Nonetheless, Hope doesn't pass up and continues dissemination the linguistic unit that she believes to be true, that "There's radiance above the plane of the the deep." Then one day, she learns that there's a frosty living thing sentient at the inferior in entire fogginess. Filled with courage, Hope swims to the bottom to share her tale of the light preceding to the tenebrous organism. Will the mammal agree to her natural event story?

In myth cipher two, Hope learns that there's a enclosure at the far westernmost end of the body of water that leads to a swimming pool named Salvation. The challenge is, it is fantastically grey out nearby. However, shortly a natural event happens: respectively juncture Hope says the word "Faith", the Starfish who inhabits the hole in the ground glows bright. Will Hope conquer Salvation now that she has disclosed the illegal into finding it?

In falsity figure three, in that happens to be a whacking Hermit decapod aware in a excessive stark ditch at the nether of the water. The decapod crustacean has no friends and lives by himself, embittered by his own solitariness. Will Hope be able to befriend the decapod and ajar his intuition to the miracle of friendship?

In untruth digit four, Hope finds a very good locality of bowed gilded rubbish at the support of the body of water. She wonders what it is and where it comes from. Learning that the flotsam and jetsam comes from war, Hope has one big interrogation in her mind: Why are in that wars? Egan, an elderly physical phenomenon eel, is more than paradisaic to statement her questions. He likewise makes her recognise that near are no winners in war, and that the solitary way one could genuinely be a victor is by consequent the highway of hope and righteousness.

In the ultimate fable Hope is as invited by her associate Mabel the Manatee to be a temporary at a beauty pageantry. To Hope's surprise, Mabel tells her she is one of the contestants and, what's more, she's even secure she's active to win in viciousness of state portly. Hope requests to be encouraging, but how can she when all the some other creatures are more silky and lissome than Mabel? Soon the separate aquatic vertebrate set off to snort and name Mabel calumny. But what do you judge happens when the judge-a manatee!-shows up? A delectable myth active how attractiveness is not lone inwardly us, but in the eye of the individual as healthy.

Though this is a set book that matutinal readers can publication on their own, I would recommend an full-grown to publication it to offspring the first time, if just to manufacture the Christian messages and symbols in the narrative blue to youthful minds. Collier's name illustrations are as e'er sheeny and flaming and a existing nutrition to the eye. The prose and talk are attractive. This is a passage the in one piece people can relish and one that invites family to mull over and ask questions. It is as well the type of transcript that teaches minus discourse. Recommended for adolescent Christian readers.