Aisha's Moonlit Walk

Aisha's Moonlit Walk
Author: Anika Stafford
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781558964853

Best friends Aisha and Heather and their families celebrate various Pagan holidays together. Includes discussion guides and activities.

Religious Diversity and Children's Literature

Religious Diversity and Children's Literature
Author: Connie R. Green
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1617353981

This book is an invaluable resource for enabling teachers, religious educators, and families to learn about religious diversity themselves and to teach children about both their own religion as well as the beliefs of others. The traditions featured include indigenous beliefs throughout the world, Native American spirituality, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity (Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism), Islam, Sikhism, and other beliefs such as Bahá'í, Unitarian Universalism, Humanism, and Atheism. Each chapter highlights a specific religion or spiritual tradition with a brief discussion about major beliefs, misconceptions, sacred texts, and holy days or celebrations. This summary of each tradition is followed by extensive annotated recommendations for children’s and adolescent literature as well as suggested teaching strategies. The recommended literature includes informational books, traditional religious stories, and fiction with religious themes. Teachers, religious educators, and family members will find the literature from these genres to be invaluable tools for bridging the religious experience of the child with that of the global society in which they live.

Rainbow Family Collections

Rainbow Family Collections
Author: Jamie Campbell Naidoo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2012-04-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1598849611

As one of the only highly praised resources on this important topic, this thoughtfully compiled book examines and suggests picture books and chapter books presenting LGBTQ content to children under the age of 12. Highlighting titles for children from infancy to age 11, Rainbow Family Collections examines over 250 children's picture books, informational books, and chapter books with LGBTQ content from around the world. Each entry in Rainbow Family Collections supplies a synopsis of the title's content, lists awards it has received, cites professional reviews, and provides suggestions for librarians considering acquisition. The book also provides a brief historical overview of LGBTQ children's literature along with the major book awards for this genre, tips on planning welcoming spaces and offering effective library service to this population, and a list of criteria for selecting the best books with this content. Interviews with authors and key individuals in LGBTQ children's book publishing are also featured.

A Child's Book of Blessings and Prayers

A Child's Book of Blessings and Prayers
Author: Eliza Blanchard
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2008-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1558965351

Collects children's prayers from the Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Native American, and pagan faiths.

Pagan and Earth-Centered Voices in Unitarian Universalism

Pagan and Earth-Centered Voices in Unitarian Universalism
Author: Jerrie Kishpaugh Hildebrand
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1558967958

These 23 essays by some of the most prominent leaders in Unitarian Universalist Paganism bring Pagan and Earth-centered theo/alogy to life for a new generation. Featuring the writings of both clergy and laypeople, this vibrant collection demonstrates the many expressions of nature-based spirituality and the ways they feed the souls of so many. The essayists describe a broad array of practices, including Wiccan traditions, Neo-Pagan rituals and celebrations, worship of the divine feminine, and nature-based beliefs and practices that bring us into harmony and balance with our natural environment. Contributors also describe the development of nature-based theo/alogy within Unitarian Universalism—including the organization of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, the addition of the sixth Source to the UUA bylaws recognizing Earth-centered spirituality, and the integration of Pagan practices into congregational life.

Hide & Seek With God

Hide & Seek With God
Author:
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1994
Genre: God
ISBN: 9781558966581

- 29 enchanting tales for four- to eight-year-olds. - For today's children, a religious vision that is multicultural and non-sexist. - Includes suggestions for talking about God with children without using dogma. - God comes to life as many things--transcendent mystery, spiritual force, the mother and father of life, peace, and silence, and lightness and darkness.

The Miraculous Pitcher

The Miraculous Pitcher
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2015-12-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781503376663

"[...] Their cottage stood on a rising ground, at some short distance from a village, which lay in a hollow valley, that was about half a mile in breadth. This valley, in past ages, when the world was new, had probably been the bed of a lake. There, fishes had glided to and fro in the depths, and water-weeds had grown along the margin, and trees and hills had seen their reflected images in the broad, and peaceful mirror. But, as the waters subsided, men had cultivated the soil, and built houses on it, so that it was now a fertile spot, and bore no traces of the ancient lake, except a very small brook, which meandered through the midst of the village, and supplied the inhabitants with water. The valley had been dry land so long, that oaks had sprung up, and grown great and high, and perished with old age, and been succeeded [...]".

Who's Your Daddy?

Who's Your Daddy?
Author: Rachel Epstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2009
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

The essays and interviews in Who's Your Daddy? give new meaning to our understanding of queer parenting. Contributors bring into sharp focus the multiple and meaningful ways that LGBTQ people are choosing to become parents and raise children. This is without a doubt a timely and important.