Saints: Lives and Illuminations - Hardcover

Sanderson, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080285365X ISBN 13: 9780802853653

Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2010

Synopsis

This combined edition or our picture books Saints & More Saints presents the stories of remarkable people ― martyrs, hermits, miracle workers, scholars, and evangelists ― who were the pioneers of the early Church and who spread the Christian faith to the rest of the world. / With brief biographical sketches and lush pencil and oil portraits, author and illustrator Ruth Sanderson stokes the flame of our centuries old and ongoing interest in the faith and lives of these spiritual examples ― saints who have forever changed the way we look at and live our lives in relationship to God.

About this title

About the Author:

Ruth Sanderson has illustrated many books for children,including Cinderella and The Snow Princess(both Little, Brown) and the companion volumes Saints:Lives and Illuminations and More Saints: Lives andIlluminations. Her artistic style is inspired byRenaissance art, icons, illuminated manuscripts, oldengravings, and woodcuts. She lives in Easthampton,Massachusetts.

From Booklist:

Gr. 4-6. This compilation of saints almost feels like a throwback to another era. Forty saints are introduced, two to a spread. Each saint gets a lovely oil-and-pencil portrait that takes up a third of the page and an overview of his or her life. Although not sensationalized, the descriptions clearly relate how many of these people were martyred. In the profile of Saint Barbara, the text notes, "When a shepherd betrayed her to her father, she was arrested, tortured and sentenced to death. Her father struck her down with his own sword." In Saint Cecilia's case, Sanderson writes that "she was arrested, tortured and beheaded." This sentence is rather jauntily followed by the statement, "Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians and singers." Some names are familiar (Saint Christopher is included, although he has been removed from some official lists of saints), but many are not, perhaps because Sanderson has chosen saints from the Eastern Orthodox tradition as well as from the Roman Catholic Church. The lives of saints continue to be a source of inspiration for many children; buy this handsome book where there will be an audience. Ilene Cooper
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About this edition

• Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 080285365X
• ISBN 13: 9780802853653
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160