Saints and Angels: Popular Stories of Familiar Saints

by Claire Llewellyn

Overview

Richly illustrated with fine art, Saints and Angels describes the lives and works of many familiar and unfamiliar saints and angels. Among those included are the apostles, John the Baptist, Joan of Arc, and the first native-born American saint, Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton. Details of feast days and patronages are also discussed. Coverage includes information about choirs of angels, guardian angels and fallen angels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780753455883
Publisher:	Kingfisher
Publication date:	10/03/2003
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	1,088,903
Product dimensions:	8.77(w) x 10.95(h) x 0.48(d)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Claire Llewellyn is a prize-winning author of nonfiction for young readers. In 1991 she was shortlisted for the prestigious TES Junior Information Book Award for MacDonald's Take One: Rubbish, and in 1992 she won that award for My First Book of Time. Since then she has written more than 20 children's books on a wide range of subjects. She is the author of Kingfisher's recent Saints and Angels. Claire lives in Hertford.

Editorial Reviews

Kingfisher reissues Claire Llewellyn's Saints and Angels in a smaller gift size featuring gilt-edge pages and a place-marking ribbon. The elegant volume offers accessible, simple text introducing more than 30 saints and angels, as well as illuminating reflections such as "What Is a Saint?" all accompanied by excellent reproductions of fine art. Includes a glossary, calendar of feast days and index. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

The elegant volume offers accessible, simple text introducing more than 30 saints and angels, as well as illuminating reflections such as "What Is a Saint?" all accompanied by excellent reproductions of fine art.” —Publishers Weekly

“Gold-edged pages, a blue ribbon bookmark, heavenly blue and gold endpapers, and a see-through book jacket printed with saints and angels make this an attractive gift book for young people and adults.” —Children's Literature

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