Bedtime stories for children simply must be improved these days. We cannot continue to send out kids off into dreamland with visions of machine gun toting robots in their heads. Yes, we realize that the world is not all fluff and bunnies, but surely for our young ones it should be, for at least a few years. With this in mind we offer the finest collection of unique inspirational books for children from age 7 to 70. In our stories the good guys always win, but they do have a few trials along the way.
Why some kids book publishers only offer the best
Major publishers of kid’s books such as Harper and Collins or Random house routinely publish two hundred titles for children each year. Random House probably produces another three hundred titles through its imprint divisions. But are these books any good. Truly some are, as these big publishers win award after prestigious award every year. Still these books tend to follow formulas and offer little in the way of dynamic inspirational content. Morningside Books publishes four books a year. It is all our budget will allow. But because of this limitation we make sure every one of our books is better than any other children’s book brought out, regardless of the size of the publishing house.
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Massive online superstores don’t offer all the best books from small publishers
When shopping for kids books online there are two approaches one can take. First you can buzz onto Amazon or Barnes and Noble to see what they are proffering for the month. This leads you to some excellent award winning children’s books. It also leads you to a collection of garbage written and published expressly to turn a high profit. A unique alternative is to look at the select range of books published by Morningside Books. These are books from one of America’s leading independent publishers. They are written and illustrated to the highest standard. Even the construction of these books is superior.
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Beautiful books designed to teach children while amusing them
Morningside publishes only 4 or 5 titles a year but these are always beautifully written and produced. They are sold exclusively online, Publisher direct to you. Every book from Morningside carries important themes essential to your child’s inner development. If you want your child to understand what true bravery is or to see the hand of God in all of nature, these are the best kid’s books for them to read. Don’t worry there is plenty of fun in each of our titles. We simply instill a great deal of character into these books. The stories are always positive and entertaining.
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Original stories with positive messages create an ideal children’s book
It seems people often throw the word classic around before a movie or book has proven itself. So many stories are not classic kid’s books at all but simply retellings of plots with a few obvious changes. We believe that all of the books published by Morningside Books will someday be considered classic stories for children. Of course we will all have to wait fifty years or so to see. Meanwhile we can guarantee that every book we publish is based on an original idea. The characters are fresh and new and always offer positive growth models for your children.
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Stories written to excite and inspire young readers
What makes for exciting kids story books? Children need stories that are engaging and NEVER boring. Characters must be dynamic in ways that a child then seeks to emulate. Take for example Su Tai the main character in the charming full color acrylic illustrated book “The Heart of Nine Tigers.” Su Tai is just nine years old yet she may be the bravest person in her village. Her bravery is tested on a day that happened over one thousand years ago. Any young child will take heart from this story. All of the books from Morningside Books available through The Children’s Bookstore feature positive plot twists with a bit of a lesson learned as well.
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Unique aspects of Morningside children’s books
What makes kids reading books from Morningside so unique? Consider that the whole point of these higher reading level books is to educate your child while providing an imaginative reading experience. Do you think your child will improve his or her vocabulary and reading comprehension with books that do not challenge them? Of course not, that is why Morningside stories take your child on tremendous adventures. In one book they meet up with a sneaky alligator pretending to be a log. In the next they meet Bartram, an endangered species of mouse who wrestles with crabs for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and occasionally talks to the moon.
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Books that help your child grow in reading ability and learn life lessons
These are the greatest books for kids ever written. They teach on so many levels. With vocabulary that is placed in context your child will be able to quickly learn new words that add to his or her reading enjoyment. All of these wonderful storybooks feature hand drawn and painted illustrations that fill in the blanks of imagination allowing your child to live in the heart of the characters. All of the characters depicted (except a few villains) are positive role models for your child. Through them your child will learn values such as courage and faith. Of course there is no shortage of tender moments and joyous laughter in these marvelous stories from Morningside Books.
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What makes a children’s book genuinely good?
How do we determine, out of all the available children’s stories, which are good books for kids? It isn’t as simple as saying “Oh this book has a cute puppy on it, let’s read this one.” The time we spend reading with our children is sometimes limited and always precious. We can’t afford to waste that time. Good books for kids must be entertaining and insightful. Yes we want cute characters and stories that incite our children to buckets of laughter, but always with a positive life affirming message. The books you read to your child tonight contain the ethics and philosophies they will use as adults.
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Reestablishing the tradition of producing quality children’s books
At Morningside Books we are redefining what children’s books can and should be. We are not publishing books based on whatever is popular that year. We don’t have Smurfs battling Ninja Turtles. Our books liken to the stories read by your parents and even grandparents. These are books that will be relevant to the hearts and minds of children 100 years from now. The ability to carry forth a theme which will entertain children a century into the future marks our stories as some of the best books for kids ever written.
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Don’t settle for second rate online children’s books
When looking online, books for kids can mean two things. Often the first thing people connect with online books for kids are stories that can be read directly from their computer. In the case of children’s books these are usually of very poor quality. Apparently the low cost of creating a book in this way lends itself to a pitiful production. The next connection people make with online books is that of books for sale. Obviously mega websites such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble excel at offering hundreds of thousands of titles at discount prices.
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Options for finding quality children’s books online
Still there are other options when searching for books for kids online. This is where we find Morningside Books and The Children’s Bookstore. We have created websites offering custom crafted stories for children. These are available through direct purchase on any of our member sites. All of the titles we publish are written and illustrated by the most talented and creative people working in children’s literature today. We offer a collection of children’s books with age ranges of 4 to 6 years, 7 to 12 years and teen young adult fiction.
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Fun filled books for children both young and old
These are fabulous and fun clean cut reading books for kids. Look at a few of our titles. There is “The Heart of Nine Tigers”. Set in Ancient China and told by 300 year old master story teller and part time babysitter Chen Li. The story tells of how one day the mighty Genghis Khan came to overrun and conquer the tiny village of Ming Po, until he was turned aside by a special young girl. In the latest book in the Morningside Wildlife Series, “Bartram and the Blue Morning Glory,” a tiny endangered beach mouse shares the trials and troubles of a week in a mouse world.
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Online megastores aren’t necessarily the place to find quality books for kids
If you are looking for wonderful unique kids stories online you might want to look a little further than just those titles available at the Amazon or Barnes and Noble websites. Independent children’s book publisher, Morningside Books has established a unique online retail outlet for all of their best titles. That store is The Children’s Bookstore. At the Children’s Bookstore you won’t find tired remakes of stories from television. What you will find are carefully crafted books with deep meaningful themes, themes you will want to share with your child such as finding true courage and believing in miracles.
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The impact a surprise twist can have in children’s books
Children’s books thrive on the element of surprise. The ending whereby the characters are surprised at a result allows the young reader to share in that surprise. The story value is raised further when an epiphany is also the result. But that emotional catharsis is not found in every book for kids published. In fact it is rarely found at all. You will find an inspirational surprise in every story from Morningside Books. Sometimes the message will be quiet and thoughtful as is the case in “Bartram and the Blue Morning Glory.” Other times the impact on the reader is deeply pronounced as in our adventure story, “The Heart of Nine Tigers.”
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Children’s books that offer positive life lessons
Children’s reading books should always contain a few key ingredients. They should have characters young people can identify with, a strong theme and emotional balance. It is all too easy to write a book wherein shock value is the most important ingredient. But stories that turn from dark to darker seldom instill in the young reader a sense of well being. Stories from Morningside Books are strong on positive life affirming values. The good guys always win and villains get comeuppance. Whether the story is centered on a young girl in ancient China as in “The Heart of Nine Tigers,” or a little mouse from “Bartram and the Blue Morning Glory,” your child will be touched by the character’s goodness.
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A new children’s storybook set in a little known area of nature
Recent children’s book reviews have overwhelmingly embraced “Bartram and the Blue Morning Glory,” the latest story published by Morningside Books. This touching tale of a tiny, less than three inches long, beach mouse who lives on a Gulf Coast Barrier Island, has garnered tremendous advance publication attention. As a follow up to the first wildlife themed book from Morningside, “Alligators Can’t Stand Butterflies,” “Bartram” delves almost mystically into how wondrous interaction is of all things interwoven by nature. With over twenty hand drawn full color, action filled illustrations, “Bartram and the Blue Morning Glory” is a delightful bedtime story adventure for children from seven to seventy.
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Christian themes projected in a young adult novel
Do Christian books for children always have to directly quote the Bible or simply restage a parable? Take a look at “The Midget Green Swamp Moose,” This powerful young adult novel is filled with important Christian messages and themes. But these are presented as part of the character’s developed insights. By suggesting Christian ideals in this way, young readers are not pressured into any belief. Rather they are given any opportunity to find God in their own hearts as do the various characters in the story. In fact, the difference between central character Melanie Fowler’s slowly developed faith in God with that of her brother Bret’s “instant” found faith is a major point of contrast.
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How characters come to find faith in The Midget Green Swamp Moose
Melanie, sits and squirms during church services, barely able to contain herself. Yet while attending a revival later that week she is one of the few attendees who genuinely considers what God means to her. Her older brother Bret finds God through his need for comfort after tragedy. In both cases, God is given the place at the head of the table in “The Midget Green Swamp Moose,” another of the insightful yet lively Christian children’s books from Morningside Books. Set in rural Florida circa 1963 the book allows today’s young adult reader to weigh the changes in adopting faith that have evolved over these last 50 years.
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Biblically inspired stories for children young and old
Don’t look for another retelling of the story of Noah’s Ark from the publishers at Morningside Books. Bible stories for kids from Morningside are far more likely to depict and explain less known parables such as that of The Kings Marriage Feast or The Parable of the Mustard Seed. The reason for this is that the children’s stories published by Morningside Books have plots developed around important themes taken from these parables. Noah and the animals two by two may be entertaining, but other lessons in faith are more Christ centered.
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Biblical themes in current children’s stories
Still it is hard to resist retelling traditionally popular kids Bible stories. Children tremendously enjoy the story of Noah and the Ark. Imagine though the grandeur of passing along to a child truly Christian ideals in new stories that speak to the child at precisely their level of understanding. That is what the editors at Morningside Books always attempt to do in every book they produce. Whether the central character is a tiny mouse or a child in prayer, the reader is taught through that character themes from important Bible parables.
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How Bible stories are made easier to grasp in modern literature
Consider the story of the prodigal son. Seldom has literature produced a better example of forgiveness and unconditional love than this. Indeed the story has been retold a hundred times in other forms. Look no further than John Steinbeck’s East of Eden to see once again the story of Cain and Abel retold. Yes the characters and setting are changed to fit the times, but doesn’t this make the story easier to absorb? This same approach is used by Morningside books to bring Bible stories for children to life. You may rest assured that in every story from Morningside Books the hand of God is clearly seen.
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