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An Advent Hope: A Children's Book about Family Advent Traditions
An Advent Hope: A Children's Book about Family Advent Traditions
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Prepare for the coming of Christmas by walking through the Advent season with a Catholic family!
Joan, Joe, Emmanuel, and Gianna are surprised when their parents suddenly begin bringing things into their home at the beginning of December. Evergreen branches, candles, and new foods keep appearing throughout the house. They are quickly told that this is part of "Advent" and that the family is preparing for the Christmas season.Â
The four children have a lot of questions about Advent. Join the kids as their family celebrates Advent as a time of prayerful waiting and expectation, full of fun traditions and treats!Â
Excerpts from the Scripture readings for Advent and Christmas are keyed to the main text throughout the book, helping little ones make connections between the story and what they hear at Mass throughout the Advent and beginning of the Christmas seasons.Â
When you’re done reading, you can bless your Advent wreath using the blessing at the back of the book.Â
Author:Â Madeleine Carroll
Illustrations: Austyn Schwartzbeck
32 pages with full-color illustrations throughout
Softcover
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Love this book for teaching kids about the advent season. So beautiful and I know my children will love it this year and many more to come!
We love this book! Beautiful pictures and truly added to our advent season! Thank you so much!
My neice loved it
I bought this book as an Advent gift for my four-year-old. He LOVES this book, and he wants us to read it to him over and over. We already do a home Advent wreath and Jesse Tree, so it was refreshing to read about another family doing the same things. He even called me out on the fact that the family in the book has a white candle in the middle of their Advent wreath and ours doesn't! One of my favorite illustrations was the last page - on Christmas morning, there is only one thing under the tree. Not piles of presents but a simple Nativity set. The true gift of Christmas. Very well done book!
What a lovely book. So well put together and a great way to explain what Advent is all about!