All Creation Waits

All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings (Click here for the Children's Edition, with less text and color illustrations.) Gayle Boss writes lovingly about animals in their habitats using rich and lyrical language. Children will learn--and be awestruck--as their parents read about creatures they know, and don't know.  I'm certain families will make reading this lovely book together a yearly tradition, whether they observe Advent or not.  All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings is a beautiful addition to any family library.             —  Deborah Heiligman, author of Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith, a National Book Award Finalist Open a window each day of Advent onto the natural world. Here are twenty-five fresh images of the foundational truth that lies beneath and within the Christ story. In twenty-five portraits depicting how wild animals of North America ingeniously adapt when darkness and cold descend, we see and hear as if for the first