Make Space for Jesus: Learning About Lent and Easter. This item is unavailable.Make Space for Jesus: Learning About Lent and Easter

Invite little children to learn about Lent and Easter in this gentle and engaging board book that encourages generosity and compassion. 

Laura Alary, bestselling author of Make Room: A Child’s Guide to Lent and Easter, presents a simple board book for the youngest readers to experience the story of Jesus at this important time of year. With simple text and soft, watercolor illustrations, Make Space for Jesus teaches young children about Jesus’ way of compassion, welcome, and generosity, and suggests little ways that we can make room in our hearts for others, like smiling and saying hello. This reassuring little book makes it clear that sadness is not the end of the story, but gives way to joy and new life.  

Make Space for Jesus: 

• Tells the Lent and Easter story to young readers in a thoughtful, accessible way  

• Helps families who want to experience the liturgical rhythms of the church year  

• Explains why the church is dressed in purple, and what Holy Week is about 

• Helps kids think deeper about how to follow Jesus’ example of love 

• Provides a thoughtful alternative to the more consumeristic messages surrounding Easter 

• Makes a great gift for curious toddlers and boys and girls ages 1-5 years old, to read together at home or bring to church 

Make Space for Jesus will be a welcome addition to every child’s library, to lay a foundation for their lifelong spiritual journey.  

  

 

Laura Alary is a storyteller, educator, and writer who delights in writing stories that make us bigger on the inside. Among her many books are Make Room: A Child's Guide to Lent and Easter, Look! A Child's Guide to Advent and Christmas, Breathe: A Child's Guide to Ascension, Pentecost, and the Growing Time and Rise: A Child’s Guide to Eastertide​. A trained theologian and biblical scholar with degrees in Classics (B.A., Dalhousie), Theology (M.Div., Knox College, University of Toronto) and New Testament (Ph.D., University of St. Michael’s College), Laura currently works in a theological library. She lives with her three children in Toronto, where she likes to go for walks in the woods, tend her tiny pollinator garden, and keep her eyes open for signs of new life.

Ann Boyajian is the illustrator of many books, including Samantha's Friendship Fun (in the American Girl series), More Spice Than Sugar (Houghton Mifflin), and O Say Can You See? American's Symbols, Landmarks, and Inspiring Words (Scholastic).