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The Ladybird Book of Prayers Through the Year
In a child's world there are many lovable things. These - and many incidents too - can mean much more to them than to an older person, and so can provide a natural approach to prayer through praise and thanksgiving. It is hope that this book will help to increase an awareness of lovely things and worthwhile experiences, and that it will encourage young children to thank God for them.
The nature notes and suggestions will add to a young child's knowledge.
The nature notes and suggestions will add to a young child's knowledge.
52 pages, Hardcover
First published January 30, 1964
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March 7, 2020
Hilda Rostron has gathered together a series of prayers that define the months of the year and she divides them up to take the reader from January to December with prayers plus illustrations by Clive Upton that offer thanks for the things that happen or that we should be thankful for in each of the months.
For instance in January a prayer is offered 'for the New Year', another for 'Snowy Weather' and a third for 'Lost Sheep in Winter', the last mention asking that the sheep and early lambs be kept safe in their folds and that the shepherds find any that are lost in the snow.
There is a February prayer for 'Warmth' - I am not too sure of that but it does thank God for all the things that help us to keep warm in cold weather, and perhaps more appropriately there is a prayer for 'Rainy Days'. The thrust of that prayer is to thank God for rain, which we need for various things and also asks Him to help us not to grumble when 'a rainy day stops us from going out to play'.
And each successive month has themes to the prayers, along with which are nature notes and suggestions to help put everything into context.
They may all be fairly simple prayers but they do make one realise that we are grateful for lots and lots of things and recording them encourages young children to appreciate them all the more.
For instance in January a prayer is offered 'for the New Year', another for 'Snowy Weather' and a third for 'Lost Sheep in Winter', the last mention asking that the sheep and early lambs be kept safe in their folds and that the shepherds find any that are lost in the snow.
There is a February prayer for 'Warmth' - I am not too sure of that but it does thank God for all the things that help us to keep warm in cold weather, and perhaps more appropriately there is a prayer for 'Rainy Days'. The thrust of that prayer is to thank God for rain, which we need for various things and also asks Him to help us not to grumble when 'a rainy day stops us from going out to play'.
And each successive month has themes to the prayers, along with which are nature notes and suggestions to help put everything into context.
They may all be fairly simple prayers but they do make one realise that we are grateful for lots and lots of things and recording them encourages young children to appreciate them all the more.
May 12, 2019
I've just been through my catalogue of Ladybird Books, and turned to probably the oldest I ever owned, The Book Of Prayers Through The Year, by H.I. Rostron, illustrated by Clive Uptton. My name written in the inside cover is so primitive I even had trouble spelling it, so this book hies from around 1964, its publication date.
One of the universal features of all the Ladybird Books - certainly up to the mid-Seventies - was the beautiful captivating paintings they were illustrated with, and the gorgeous covers. There is not a single copy that doesn't captivate with that early sense of wonder on seeing and opening these books - no matter what the subject, whether the weather or about maps, on electricity or the wildlife series of Britain and the continents, or the series of famous people, or the religious series that this one belongs to.
I felt again the delight of opening a Ladybird Book and browsing over the pictures, the friendly family atmosphere this book evoked, and the play of the seasons.
One of my favourite series is the 'What To Look For In Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter' (Series 536) - my son, visiting the other day, mentioned that he used one of the pictures for his own work hanging on my wall. We were knelt before the bookcase, the three of us, pulling them out and admiring them for the first time in ten years. It was nothing but a pleasure to go through the catalogue and check them on Goodreads, and find myself distracted again before the bookcase. I have about 300 on catalogue, and about 90 on the bookcase - and I intend to read every one of them again over the next year, for the first time in nearly 50 years, and recover some spell of the past.
This is what books are for, and why we keep them all these decades. Books, as you know, just seem to whisper from the shelf, then beckon again a week later, and finally we listen, and pull them down, and fall into a spell, from which only sleep will pull us away.
The message of this particular Ladybird book (of Series 612), is to count our blessings...
One of the universal features of all the Ladybird Books - certainly up to the mid-Seventies - was the beautiful captivating paintings they were illustrated with, and the gorgeous covers. There is not a single copy that doesn't captivate with that early sense of wonder on seeing and opening these books - no matter what the subject, whether the weather or about maps, on electricity or the wildlife series of Britain and the continents, or the series of famous people, or the religious series that this one belongs to.
I felt again the delight of opening a Ladybird Book and browsing over the pictures, the friendly family atmosphere this book evoked, and the play of the seasons.
One of my favourite series is the 'What To Look For In Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter' (Series 536) - my son, visiting the other day, mentioned that he used one of the pictures for his own work hanging on my wall. We were knelt before the bookcase, the three of us, pulling them out and admiring them for the first time in ten years. It was nothing but a pleasure to go through the catalogue and check them on Goodreads, and find myself distracted again before the bookcase. I have about 300 on catalogue, and about 90 on the bookcase - and I intend to read every one of them again over the next year, for the first time in nearly 50 years, and recover some spell of the past.
This is what books are for, and why we keep them all these decades. Books, as you know, just seem to whisper from the shelf, then beckon again a week later, and finally we listen, and pull them down, and fall into a spell, from which only sleep will pull us away.
The message of this particular Ladybird book (of Series 612), is to count our blessings...
May 2, 2026
A short little collection full of sweet prayers to say throughout the year, giving thanks to all that the new months bring.
May 3, 2013
This was given to me by my paternal grandmother. It was not one of my favorites at the time, but I enjoy it now.
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