Book Title: Best Buddies: What’s in a Name? by Mother Melania Salem
Category: Children’s Fictions (ages 3-7), 32 pages
Genre: Children’s Picture Book
Publisher: Holy Assumption Monastery
Release date: December, 2022
Content Rating: G – This is a children’s picture book. It does deal with homelessness, but in a way that is appropriate for young children. There is nothing graphic and no bad language.
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Mother Melania. Best Buddies: What’s in a Name? Calistoga, CA: Holy Assumption Monastery, 2022.
Mother Melania has written a book that will help parents and teachers address the topic of homelessness with their children. She also has coloring pages and worksheets to go with this book available online.
The story teaches the importance of everyone being recognized by their name whether they are human or animal. The text and illustrations are simple and easy for young children to understand. Since this is a somewhat sensitive topic the book is probably best read with a caring adult.
This short picture book really does tell most of the story through the pictures and the speech bubbles incorporated into them.
Best Buddies is appropriate for the picture book section of a k-12 Christian school library.
I received a complimentary copy of Best Buddies. This is my honest review.
Mother Melania is giving away PDF copies of the book via BookFunnel. Anyone who clicks on the link can download the book for FREE!
Mother Melania is the Abbess of Holy Assumption Monastery in Calistoga, CA. She grew up in a house that always had tons of children around, her poor parents had to read to her till they were hoarse, and from the moment she learned to read, she always had her nose in a book. So, it was only natural for her to grow up to write children’s books.
She has written three series of specifically Orthodox children’s books – all in verse – which celebrate the high points of God’s work of salvation in the Person of Christ. Her remaining series teach children the virtues in a fun, non-preachy way.
Fearless and Friends chronicles the lives of Fearless the Fireduck (think ‘fireman,’ except that he’s a DUCK) and Charity the Church Mouse and their friends, who get in and out of trouble based on the wisdom (or lack thereof) of their actions.
The Adventures of Kenny and Scooter is a minimal-word series featuring six-year-old Kenny and his irrepressible Boston Terrier Scooter, who take turns getting into trouble and rescuing each other from their foolish antics.
teachesWith all her books, Mother Melania is trying to celebrate virtue and God’s saving work in our lives.
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Looks like a great kids book.
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thanks for sharing your review, this would be good to read with my son
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