Books like Play With Me
By Marie Hall Ets
On a late winter night, a young girl and her father walk silently into snowy woods, calling into the darkness in hopes that a real owl will answer back.
A young polar bear's fishing trip with Grampa Bear is interrupted by pesky otters, sparking a gentle conversation about why we're called to love others — even when they're hard to love.
A meditation on desert life, where Desert People and desert animals move through the same sun-baked land, bound together as fellow creatures who understand its rhythms and belong to it.
A zookeeper spends every day visiting his animal friends — racing the tortoise, sitting with the shy penguin, reading to the owl — until he wakes up too sick to come, and they decide to visit him instead.
A traveler pauses his horse-drawn sleigh at the edge of a snowy forest, lingering to take in the woods filling up with snow before remembering the miles and promises still ahead of him.
When spring arrives, a little bunny sets out across the countryside searching for a home of his own, asking a groundhog, a robin, and a frog along the way.
A young boy asks his grandma where God is in their city, so she teaches him to look for kindness, patience, and love in the people around him.
An ordinary donkey carries the Virgin Mary across the desert to Bethlehem, dreaming along the way that he bears a city, a ship, a fountain, a rose — and a lady full of heaven.
On a dark, frozen winter night, a small farmyard troll slips silently from barn to stable to shed, quietly watching over the sleeping animals until spring comes.
A single seed falls into the ground, and through sun, rain, and patient time, sprouts roots, a stalk, and leaves — growing into a towering sunflower that makes seeds of its own.
Before sunrise, a paperboy and his dog ride the same quiet route together, folding and tossing papers while the rest of the town stays asleep.
A sheltered prince leaves his palace, encounters suffering and death for the first time, and gives up his family and wealth to search for the truth of life — a journey that ends in enlightenment beneath a bodhi tree.
