Books like God's Protection Covers Me
By Amy Houts
For families who want bedtime to include a quiet reminder that the boy in this story, and the child listening to it, are both watched over and kept safe. Gentle, reassuring, and rooted in the everyday rhythms of farm life.
At bedtime, a little boy asks his mama again and again — what if he were a smelly skunk, a meat-eating dinosaur, a swamp creature — and she answers every wild what-if with love.
A lonely chameleon changes his color and shape to match a swirly snail, a pink cockatoo, a green grasshopper, and other objects, hoping each one might become a friend.
A tiny caterpillar hatches from an egg on a leaf and eats his way through days of the week and an amazing variety of foods, growing bigger as he prepares to become a butterfly.
A small boy and a big friendly bear head off on a berry-picking adventure, paddling canoes and crossing bridges through Berryland in search of blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries for jam.
A big friendly bear heads to the swimming hole and notices someone shy rustling in the trees and scampering through the brush — who could this mysterious new creature be?
A little old lady complains that her house is too small, so a wise old man tells her to bring in the hen, goat, pig, and cow one by one — with noisy, crowded results.
A hungry squirrel searches for the nuts he buried, poking around a nest of fledglings, Mr. Owl, Frog, Vole, Mole, a cave of bats, and the woodchopper's house along the way.
A hug-loving mer-boy named Kai learns to ask before squishing his underwater friends, after his enthusiastic embrace startles a puffer fish into puffing up with fright.
A farm-set retelling of a timeless fairy tale follows a girl named Beauty as she discovers that sweetness — and unexpected friendship — can be found in the most surprising place: a hive of bees.
A mother cat leads her two kittens, Fluffy and Skinny, through washing, wall-walking, and claw-sharpening — while a third kitten, Boris, just naps through it all.
Three dust bunnies named Ed, Ned, and Ted love rhyming games — bug, rug, mug, hug — but a fourth named Bob keeps breaking the pattern, trying to warn them about a broom-wielding danger heading their way.
