James Galvin Books

My children and I love to read this book! It is a great way to help them learn scripture and the pictures are adorable.

I read this book to my daughter when she's settling down for bedtime. Each page contains an illustration and a scripture passage representing one of God's promises. The bible reference is also given under the scripture. At the back of the book, there are approx. 6 prayers that you can pray with your little one. It is a lovely, small book that captures their attention and teaches them God's word. Wonderful for adults too!

This book is great for young children now learning about praising Jesus and remembering to say Thank You for all the wonderful things given to them by God. It is a constant reminder that God is always here and he protects and guides each of us, Jesus said " And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age." The illustrations are just wonderful they depict harmony among children regardless of colour or race it also gives a little charater they can relate with.

I ordered this as an addition to our resource "library" for my children as we do Bible study daily... I have four children ranging in age from 2 - 8 and if I find it difficult to explain something to them pertaining to the Bible in language they can understand, I can often find an easier way to get the message across by finding answers to their questions in this book. I would recommend it!

I bring home a lot of Christian books that I think my kids will read, but they rarely do. This one is different...my 8 and 10 yr olds are truly interested. They like to ask me the questions and see what kind of answer I come up with. With the scripture included, it's a devotional study in disquise!

I gave these books away one Summer to kids involved in a discipleship program and it proved to be a great tool for them. The answers are age-appropriate and written in a way kids can understand. Some kids even spent time just reading the entries in this book in addition to using it for looking up things they did not understand. When your child has a question about a Bible word, name or idea, send them to this, even if you can answer it. It helps the child develop study skills and gives him/her a sense of accomplishment for having discovered the answer for him/herself. Every family with early readers should have a copy!

My 9 year old daughter bought this book and we have found it answered many questions she had about the Bible that I couldn't answer. The langauge is very age appropriate. The setup of the book is great and the phonetic pronunciation was helpful.

I love this book. My husband and I are teaching our children about the lord and how to say prayers. Which becomes a little hard when we know nothing our selfs. We are just learning and this helps us teach them. They are only 1 and 2. But they love these stories.

This is a precious little book! Each page contains one simple Bible Verse with a delightful postcard size picture beside it. The Bible verses are applicaple to teaching and training a young child and are taken from the NIV, Living and NRSV Versions.
For example: "Honor your father and mother, that you may have a long, good life Exodus 20:12" and "O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever! Ps 118:1"

In the back are delightfully refreshing and simple prayers.

My two year old loves this book.
The little blessings books are truly a blessing in our home!

In over 20 years as a Christian, this is the best devotional I have ever read. It is thought provoking yet keeps the subject simple. Each day gives you something to ponder and the chronological order also puts a different approach on the gospels and Jesus' life. I would recommend it to anyone. In fact, I am buying several more as gifts for friends and family.

This is a great book for family devotionals. As a Christian it is all too easy to forget that others of whome have not yet given their lives to Christ don't really understand the 'Good News'. ONE YEAR with Jesus, is a compilation of the teachings and actions of Jesus. It is a concentrated form of the Gospel. It can effectively demonstrate to those that might be on the fence, the perfect love of Jesus, which is is the only thing that I think wins converts.

This book has the most memorable lines per page of any English poetry I have read. Galvin has done a superb job of taking the concrete details of life on a Western ranch and made of them a universal exploration of history, human surviving, practical theology. Poem after poem allows reading and rereading without exhausting the poem's potential.

Opening at random - "The sound of me getting norwhere. / Though I'm telling you there are mountains so distant / It hurts to look" - what a wonderful image "so distant it hurts" - over and over these concrete, straight-talking Western poems catch you up in a new way of looking at the world - new questions, new potential answers.

These poems describe an internal landscape as lonesome and unknowable, and yet as inescapably beautiful, as the Wyoming in which they are (mostly) set. Camp a few days alone in the wilderness of the Rockies -- where the rest of the world can seem simply not matter, but where a brutal nature will not let the world be ignored --and you'll know what I mean. Read "Three Sonnets" or "Everyone Knows Whom the Saved Envy" and you are in that wilderness.

This book has sparked many conversations on why things we do are right or wrong. There are absolutes in this world and there are consequences for wrong behaviors. Great format that is easy to read and thumb through, the bible verses are great for kids and adults!

This is now available in Resurrection Update : Collected Poems, 1975-1997; see the latter title for a review

It is amazing that we do not teach young people (nor old people) about relationships. No need for a bookmark, just flip to today's date for rock solid advice on how to develop yourself and treat others. It also has a topic index if you want to study some relationship problem. Available in English (ISBN-10 310-26536-3 OR ISBN-13 978-0-310-26536-8) and in Spanish (ISBN 0-8297-4730-3)

This non-linear piece of prose is elegant in its ability to take us to a place now long-gone. Capturing the life of a meadow on the high plains of the Colorado Wyoming border, Galvin creates a rich and vivid description of life over a 100 year span.
His main character, Lyle, is a true man of the old farming west and a lover of the land as it was. Galvin's ability to create mental pictures of people, land and life makes the book a enthralling read.
Don't expect it to move quickly, although the entire book is done in vignettes. Don't expect to remember all the characters, especially if you lay the book down and don't pick it back up for a few days. Even with these reading challenges, the book is a gift of great writing and a glimpse of the past.

This book is a keeper, one that is on my shelf for rereading. James Galvin's stories remind me of the old-timers in my life here in Arizona, their quirks yet because they authentic you can't help but adore them. Unfortunately many of these old-timers are gone now and I therefore can appreciate a book like The Meadow where such stories are preserved in time and preserved with beauty and poetry. Such an unusual and unexpected combination - I love this book and would now like to read Mr. Galvin's poetry.

One of the most perfect books about the American West I've ever read. Actually, one of the most perfect books I've ever read, period. This is one of the contemporary books that I most admire. And the characters, particularly Lyle, have remained with me vividly. Galvin's novel, Fencing the Sky, is also a great book, more plotted and less lyrical, that people drawn to a more "typical" novel might love. And his poetry? God, don't even let me start. A telling piece of info: I have two copies of both The Meadow and Resurrection Update (his collected poems) so I always have one to give away.

Spare, poetic language creates a sense of place and time that envelops the reader. Lyle is one of my favorite characters of all time.

This is the story of a meadow on the Colorado/Wyoming border and of the people who lived there. It is beautifully written, and the story rings true. I passed the book on to my husband who comes from a long line of do-it-yourselfers. I think he will enjoy reading about the independent Lyle who could make any tool he needed from scratch.