Mailbox Mayhem (Oct 11 - Oct 17)

In My Mailbox is hosted Sundays at The Story Siren.  Mailbox Monday's host for October is Avis at She Reads and Reads. Please visit these posts and take a look at what packages everybody else got this week!

 

 

The Life Book

This isn't so much a book - as it is a movement - The Life Book Movement.

Founded by The Gideons International as an innovative strategy to reach high school students with God's Word, The Life Book Movement works through churches and their students to saturate high schools with God's Word. The Life Book Movement is best described as a week-long mission trip in which high school students get the opportunity to offer the gift of The LIfe Book to their classmates during school.

The Life Book’s unique design engages searching high school students with the truth of God’s Word as they are introduced to Jesus Christ. Using an interactive format with honest student comments and real-life questions in the margins, readers are drawn into the only story that can change their lives forever.

Working through local churches, The Life Book Movement provides free copies of The Life Book to Christian students to give to classmates during school. Because it is legal for students to distribute religious literature in public schools, this unique approach provides an opportunity for churches and youth ministries to get God’s Word in the hands of every student in every high school they serve.

With Saturations scheduled throughout the United States, the end goal is to eventually place God’s Word in the hands of 17.5 million high school students. (From www.thelifebook.com)

The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time

by Laurie David

The Family Dinner is a practical, inspirational, fun - and of course, green - guide to the most important hour in any parent's day.  It's chock full of:

• Over 75 kid-approved fantastic RECIPES
• Tips on teaching GREEN values
• CONVERSATION starters
• GAMES to play at the table
• How to rescue the family dinner after DIVORCE
• Ways to express GRATITUDE, and much more.

Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up Book

by Chuck Fischer

Charles Dickens's Classic A Christmas Carol has been a yuletide favorite for more than a century and a half.  Now this heartwarming fable of the true meaning of Christmas, featuring Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, the Cratchit family, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, is beautifully re-imagined in dramatic paintings by artist Chuck Fischer and brought to life in intricate pop-up scenes by paper engineer Bruce Foster.

A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up Book invites you to experience Dickens's beloved tale in an entirely new way.  With an animated Scrooge, a towering Ghost of Christmas Future in a bone-chilling graveyard, a finely crafted Victorian tableaux, every spread will delight and dazzle.  The complete text of A Christmas Carol is reproduced in five illustrated keepsake booklets; an introductory booklet provides a biography of Dickens and a note on the enduring appeal of this timeless story.  A Christmas Carol: A Pop-Up Book will brighten the holidays for young and old.

A Season of Miracles

by Rusty Whitener

Looking back on the 1971 Little League season, Zack Ross relives the summer that changed his life. . . Gunning for the championship is all that matters until twelve-year-old Zack meets Rafer, a boy whose differences make him an outcast but whose abilities on the baseball field make him the key to victory.  Admired for his contribution to the team, Rafer turns everyone's expectations upside down, bestowing a gift on Zack and his teammates that forces them to think -- is there more to life than winning or losing?  And what is this thing called grace?

Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pajamas

by Judy Parkinson

Strike while the iron's hot and bone up on the origins of your favorite expressions.

Cat got your tongue?  Well, for Pete's sake, use this collection of colorful expressions to enrich your everyday speech.  This book spills the beans on our best-loved euphemisms and most curious sayings, explaining their fascinating origins and the remarkable stories that surround them.  It rounds up the usual suspects -- the catch phrases, quotations, and expressions that keep our language flourishing -- and makes them easy to find in a convenient A-to-Z format.

Did you know that. . .

• The expressions all that glitters is not gold and apple of the eye have each been in use for more than a thousand years?
• To bark up the wrong tree comes from the sport of raccoon hunting?
• Embarrassed parents can thank the songwriter Cole Porter for the euphemism the birds and the bees?

What books found a home with you this week?