New Releases by Maite Roche

Introduce your toddlers to Jesus with this attractive board book with rounded corners by the best-selling author and illustrator Mate Roche. With inviting pictures and simple text, the book invites very young children to come to Jesus to be healed, forgiven and loved by him.

The moving events of Holy Week and Easter are tenderly told and illustrated for toddlers by the best-selling childrens author Mate Roche. Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday are introduced with one large picture and simple text. On the opposing page are smaller pictures with key terms. With this book, even very young children will quickly learn the story of the death and resurrection of Jesus.

This brightly illustrated Advent calendar changes day by day into a multi-dimensional Nativity scene. Beginning the first of December and continuing through the big feasts of the Christmas Season, children can open a window each day to reveal a new detail or a new character of the Nativity scene. A small booklet accompanies the calendar, providing the family with instructions, Scripture quotes, meditations and prayers. On each page is something to inspire all the members of the family.

Jesus in the Manger tells the story of Christ''s birth to very young children. Warm and inviting illustrations with enchanting, interactive flaps help toddlers learn to recognize Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus, as well as the angel Gabriel, Mary''s house in Nazareth and the stable in Bethlehem. This engaging book will be enjoyed over and over again by little ones who will soon be telling the Christmas story themselves.

The real meaning of Christmas is revealed to very young children in these tender prayers to be said with parents. The simple text and inviting four-color illustrations help convey the mood of each prayer, whether it is the anticipation of Advent, the wonder of the shepherds or the adoration of the magi. Each page invites the young child to thank and praise God for his greatest gift of all - Jesus, his Son.

Beautifully illustrated, these simplest of prayers can be said each night with your little ones, under the care and protection of Jesus and Mary.