Joan Sauro, CSJ, is an award-winning author and illustrator of numerous articles and six books, including The Whole Earth Meditation and The Diary of a Jogging Nun. She has won two fellowships for fiction from the New York Foundation of the Arts and a Best Story of the Year award from the Catholic Press. A teacher of literature and workshop leader for adults and for children, she is a member of the religious order of the Sisters of St. Joseph.
Children are curious and ask questions: Who made God? Where is God?
Does God Ever Sleep? Joan Sauro responds to the last question with
engaging genile, poetic words and images that reassure children of
God's words, "I will be with you." "Does everyone sleep? Do bikes
and trees, birds and balloons? God lowers the shades and turns off
the sun. God cares for the hills, the stones, the leaves, the
flowers, the birds, turning on the moon." This is God in a human,
imaginative form, suggesting divine protection for young children
and all of God's creation, a lullaby for nighttime. * Church
Educator *
"A playful and engaging journey through the mind of the child-and
the childlike-to answer an important God-question. Delights the
eyes and the imagination. Every 'child of God' will read, re-read
and love this book!" -Sister Rose Raymond Wagner, OSF, retreat and
spiritual director "Sometimes, the deepest spiritual truths can be
buried not only in what we tell our children about God, but how we
tell our children about God. Here, gently, quietly, in a lullaby of
love, Joan Sauro speaks to God's unceasing attention to us-and to
all the details of the world." -Gary Schmidt, coauthor of In God's
Hands "With peaceful images and soothing, poetic words, the reader
is lulled quietly to sleep, assured that God is but a whisper away.
Delightfully told by 'loved ones,' this comforting bedtime story is
for all children, and for the child within each one of us." -Nancy
Sohn Swartz, author of In Our Image and How Did the Animals Help
God? "Beautiful ... appealing.... The best part about this book is
its simple, rhythmic text.... A great read-along or read-aloud
book, especially for bedtime." -John S. Mogabgab, editor, Weavings
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