Praise for I Believe In Me
"When students arrive at our classes, they can hardly hold their heads up. Your book helps them walk out of here with heads held high." Kathy Dawson, Executive Director, Laubach Literacy Council, Kansas City.
"There is a new book that is pretty different, and that's a good thing. It has lots of pictures, and only a few words on each page. But it's not a silly book. The few words on the page are called affirmations. You know how some days you just don't feel very good about yourself. Especially if someone makes you mad or sad. Well, if you use this book and read the words on the page, and look at the pictures, you start to feel better.
There is a page that says, 'I'm whole and perfect just the way I am.' Well I don't always feel perfect. But when you read the words and look at the pictures, you do feel ppretty good. One reason is because the picture is a kid looking in a mirror at himself. The mirror is held by his guardian angel. How can you feel bad when your guardian angel is caring about you?
Some of the pages I don't always understand. My grandma makes me talk it through with her. Like the page of 'I am Powerful.' It shows a huge animal with horns and a kid on top of the animal. Well how can you feel powerful with a scary animal around and you are just a kid. I felt better after I talked it through. I'm bigger than my brother and sister and I protect them. I pay attention in school most of the time which makes me smarter each day.
See it really is a different book - and a good one. There is a different way to read it too. My grandma says to just read one page and then let yourself think about what it means. Then the next day you can read another page. It's probably going to take a year to read it!" Christopher Thornhill, Age 10; a review from the Awareness Magazine, Garden Grove, California.
Praise for I Turn to the Light
"'I Turn to the Light' by Connie Bowen is truly an illumination from on high - the love and truth of God revealed in beautiful words and illustrations. It will open your heart to miracle after miracle." Jan and John Randolph Price, best-selling authors and co-founders of The Quartus Foundation.
"Author and illustrator Connie Bowen has a unique talent for reaching our children with words of love, healing, and upliftment. It is a rare pleasure to read a book with a pattern and meaning valid for all of us! Such is I turn to the Light, a guide to betterment I sincerely recommend!" Richard Fuller, senior editor, Metaphysical Reviews.
"Although written to all ages, including children and teenagers, I Turn to the Light has a definite healing power about it. My own mother was in the hospital in congestive heart failure when this book was mailed to me to consider for review. As I turned each page it spoke to me, and transported me to a level I needed to go. My grief and concern for my mother was overwhelming. The affirmations brought a light to my heart, and hope to my soul.
I shared my new-found hope with my mother. I approached her with the concepts within the book. She opened to what I had to say. She made some tough decisions without fear, without hopelessness.
For those of you who want to be touched, or give a gift of love to someone who could benefit from some blessed words and inspired illustration, I encourage you to purchase this wonderful book of affirmations, and allow the grace to fall upon you." Julianna Joyce Perkins, a review from the Awareness Magazine, Garden Grove, California.
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