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Kindling Imagination for Kingdom Anticipation

The Warren & The World Vol 12, Issue 37

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I’m in the South, so the temperature is still fluctuating, but I think we’ve fully entered fall. My neighbor’s maple tree is beginning to show some color. It’s got about 200 years before it can rival the maple I lived across the street from in the yard of a Quaker Meeting House in Pennsylvania, but Homer’s Maple is doing it’s best to display some glory for me each fall, and I welcome it.

Around the Web

Between Flowers and Bones by Carolyn Leiloglou

Janie at Redeemed Reader recommends Carolyn Leiloglou’s sequel in The Restorationists series (and I concur!).

  • Between Flowers and Bones continues The Restorationists adventure series, in which members of a family are gifted with the ability to travel through works of art.
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7 Uplifting Prayers for Welcoming a New Family Member

Sophia Bricker gives us words for welcoming new family members.

  • Lots of people have a memory of a new baby sibling coming home from the hospital, or of meeting a newly adopted family member. For me, I vividly remember the day my family adopted a dog. We found her as a starving puppy with matted fur in a country churchyard. She had been abandoned.
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Absent Fathers in (Children’s) Literature: A New Problem?

Betsy Farquar explores the question of fatherlessness in literature for kids.

  • A reader reached out to us noting that many of the books we recommended for one of our lists do not have biological fathers present in the books. The reasons for absent fathers* vary, ranging from death (i.e. an orphan, such as Omar in The Many Assassinations of Samir, Seller of Dreams) to outright abdication of fatherhood (in Pay Attention, Carter Jones). Thankfully, the “abdication” issue in Carter Jones is an anomaly; all the other fathers on the book list in question have been neatly removed prior to the start of the story due to forces outside their control.
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Sing to Remember

Kathryn Butler considers God’s gift of musical memory.

  • For five years, I cared for my friend Violet as her memories faded away. Dementia took hold, and the feisty Finnish woman who took pride in her nursing career, her spotless lawn, and her adoring German shepherd eventually forgot the people and home she loved. In her final months, she no longer recognized Bible verses that had buoyed her through so many storms.
    But she still had “Amazing Grace.”
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Around the Warren

On the Hunt for Adventure: Why our Preteens are Searching for Dragons to Fight, Damsels to Save, and Battles to Win

Sarah Dixon Young explores the need for adventures among preteen readers.

  • My eleven year old burst into tears while sitting on the couch.
    As I rushed over to investigate, I noticed a worn copy of Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood in her hand. 
    “What’s the matter?” I asked.
    “All the adventures happen in books and never to meeeeee…” she cried. Her tears and distress were real, so I stifled the smile that threatened.
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The Raft – and the Art of Drawing Close

Rebecca Levake recommends Jim LaMarche’s picture book.

  • “When you draw something, you get closer to it and know it better.”
    –Jim LaMarche
    Even before I put my colored pencils to paper, this statement resonated with me. It just made sense. It made so much sense in fact that I found myself buying notebooks and colored pencils and telling the kids we were going to, “go outside and draw stuff.”
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Something to Do with Your Kids

Fall activities for the whole family? You know I’m here with a list for you!

Something to Watch

I love the web game GeoGuessr (I play the limited free version sometimes) so it was fun to see the Map Men tackle the game in their recent video.

Thanks for reading. We’re on your side. 

–The Story Warren Team

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