Books like God Gave Us Easter
By Lisa Tawn Bergren
For the child who's just starting to ask the big why questions, this is the gentle, patient answer about Easter that meets them right where they are. Tender, quiet, reverent, snow-bright.
A boy named Eli grows up on his grandparents' farm, learning to love the barn, the fields, and the river that surround him — then shares those same places with his baby sister, Sylvie.
A parent shares a string of tender wishes for a child — to find wonder in flying birds, to know love as vast and constant as the moon loves the sky.
A gentle retelling of the Nativity story, set among barn animals who witness a quiet, extraordinary birth on a cold night.
A boy tags along for a Friday night shift at the school where his dad works as a custodian, shooting baskets in the half-lit gym and sweeping the stage while the rest of the city sleeps.
Off a small island, a young boy sails an old boat, riding the shifting tides and catching wants and wishes until a change at sea reshapes what home means to him.
A little girl traces her family's history through the seasons on one city street, from her grandparents' arrival from a faraway country to her own first steps outside their house.
A six-year-old boy spends his days in his grandfather Luis's towering garden, learning bird names, playful expressions, and reading and writing from a grandfather who never had schooling of his own.
A gentle tour through nature at dusk, as mother animals — owl, fox, whale, and more — each tell their babies just how deep and boundless their love runs.
A little bear can't fall asleep because he's afraid of the dark, so Big Bear tries lantern after lantern before finally showing him the moon and stars outside the cave.
A joyful look at the natural world welcoming a new baby, as the moon pulls the tides, rain falls, and word of the coming birth spreads from animal to animal across the whole earth.
A boy and his father fish before dawn at a Minneapolis pond, not for sport but for food, while stories of a different pond back in Vietnam quietly surface between casts.
On a quiet rainy morning while Papa and Luca sleep, a little girl follows her mama through their cinnamon-scented house, wanting to be wherever Mama is.
