Abbey Press: 125 books

Helping children develop good self-esteem means helping them simply be themselves. It means letting them know how loved and cherished they are—just because of who they are. The elfin friends in this colorful book lead the young reader through a process of self-discovery: exploring uniqueness, building...

Adult children are expected to be “mature enough” to handle a parent’s death. No matter your age, however, you never stop being your parent’s child. And “the child within you” grieves their passing deeply. The 38 entries and illustrations in this book will remind you there is much to hold on to at this time of loss. The love you have for them remains and will endure forever.

Anger can be a painful and powerful emotion that leaves you feeling helpless, defeated and immobile. Here, in clear and compelling language, is a concise guide to dealing effectively with anger.

Illness is distressing for anybody, but it’s especially disturbing for children. This book escorts the sick child through the strange, scary, and often lonely world of illness and hospitalization. Empathizing with the confusing feelings and questions sick children often have, it offers comfort and...

Book offers inspirational and practical advice for daily situations.

From the end of August until the first part of June, our children spend more of their waking hours at school than at home. And while elementary school problems may sometimes seem trivial compared to our adult worries, we need to remember that our children’s problems can be just as gut-wrenching...

Practical advice is highlighted with whimsical illustrations.

Learning to Be a Good Friend allows adults to show kids how to cultivate friendship. It discusses behaviors that foster friendships, as well as those that drive friends away. It illustrates the pitfalls of peer pressure, and what to do when you can’t find a friend or have lost your best friend.

In You Are You, I Am Me, author Cynthia Geisen helps children reflect on how we can appreciate—and even celebrate—the diversity in the world around us while also helping them to recognize those things that we all share.  

Whimsical Elfin characters offer simple, sage advice for dealing with life’s challenges!

Childhood is the time for virtues to be taught—or, more accurately, “caught.” And the virtue of respect is one sorely needed in a world more and more diverse, congested, and interdependent. Just what is respect? “It’s a good way to be—and a way to be good,” say the authors of this helpful,...

This book is written for younger, school-age children for whom going to church doesn’t always make sense, particularly when it competes with things they’d rather do like sleeping in or playing. Younger children don’t have the cognitive abilities in place yet to understand many of the abstract...

Kids don’t need to be told that Christmas “counts.” They are generally tuned in to the excitement and anticipation! And yet, children can be among the first to forget what it is about the season that really counts. Much of this may have to do with what our culture—and we ourselves—teach...

“If music be the food of love, play on,” wrote William Shakespeare. And linking music with food and love is another example of the Bard’s genius. Music, after all—like food—has the ability to fill us, to satisfy our hunger, to express our joy, longing, regret, sadness, sheer delight. And,...