(Nashville, TN) Thomas Nelson is pleased to announce that Isle of Fire, a familiar face on the CBA bestseller list, is the proud recipient of the 2008 Moonbeam Award Silver Medal for Young Adult Fiction. For an award that recognizes not only the creators of exemplary children’s books but also authors who support literacy and life-long reading, there could not be a better choice.

Having witnessed firsthand the lack of quality reading material for young minds, Batson set out to develop his own teaching tools through the creation of his first published series, The Door Within; and now with his second series, Isle of Swords and Isle of Fire. Batson involved his students in the writing process, welcoming critique of his work.

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NEW BOOK A CELEBRATION OF A TIMELESS STORY

(Nashville, Tenn.)  This Christmas, experience anew the miracle of one special baby.  “A Baby Changes Everything,” penned by renowned songwriters Tim Nichols, K.K. Wiseman and Craig Wiseman and sung by Faith Hill, tells the amazing story of a young girl, an unplanned pregnancy and one miraculous little baby.

Faith Hill’s song A Baby Changes Everything celebrates the baby in the manger in a fresh new way.  In this elegant gift book the lyrics joined by reflective stanzas on the wonder of God’s love and the Christmas season.  Through this new book and CD single included with the book, find the joy and wonder of how a baby can change our lives in an instant and how one baby changed the world forever.  This fresh retelling of the Christmas story makes for a beautiful expression of all that is wonderful about Christmas. READ MORE »

(Nashville, Tenn.) – As recording is wrapping up for The Word of Promise: Youth Edition, audio New Testament, new and exciting additions have been made. Max Lucado and daughter Jenna have signed on to doing chapter openings, adding context information on the time, author and who the book was written for.

Other additions include:
• Jordin Sparks (Platinum recording artist and winner of American Idol, ) – Elizabeth
• Alyson Stoner (“Camp Rock,” “The Alyson Stoner Project,” “Cheaper by the Dozen”) – Martha

The original score is being produced by award winning composer Rob Pottorf. Rob’s scores have been heard as the background to many animated series as well as on television and feature films.

For more information on The Word of Promise: Youth Edition visit the earlier post announcing the project.

Contact: Jacklyn Johnston
Publicist
Tel: (615) 902-1722
Email: jjohnston@thomasnelson.com

Kids join Jungle Jack on an exciting interactive and educational
excursion across the seven continents
(Nashville, Tenn.) A true adventurer at heart, Jungle Jack Hanna has been all over the world and now is inviting children to travel along with him in his new book, Passport into the Wild (ISBN: 978-1-4003-1138-1, $16.99, September 2008) based off of Jack’s travels for his Emmy award winning series, Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild.

Each continent begins with an intro including the vital stats of the region including world maps, coordinates and facts. Through your travels, the pages come to life with double gatefolds that open up to forty inches wide and are filled with facts, breathtaking pictures from Jack’s photo album and exclusive stories from Jack’s travel around the globe. Then after each journey, there is a review where kids use their pocket size passport and colorful animal stickers to record every exciting moment of their trek through the wild. READ MORE »

New Children’s Story Book Penned by Author of Goodnight Moon

(Nashville, Tenn.) Millions of children have been lulled to sleep by one of Margaret Wise Brown’s bedtime classics such as Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. Wise Brown published more than 100 children’s titles during her career, with more than 20 million titles sold. But the prolific author died unexpectedly in 1952 (at age 42), and many of her unpublished manuscripts, handwritten on onionskin paper, were placed in a cedar trunk where they remained undisturbed in an attic for decades. Though the original manuscripts yellowed through the years, Thomas Nelson is reviving one of Wise Brown’s forgotten stories and combining it with illustrations from Linda Bleck. Margaret Wise Brown’s Moon Shines Down will publish for the first time in November 2008 ($16.99, hard cover, 48 pages, ISBN #: 978-1-4003-1299-3).

Wise Brown based the Moon Shines Down text on the classic New England Sampler prayer, “God Bless the Moon and God Bless Me.” The author’s unique poetic style and original wording yield a rhyming tale that will remind readers of Goodnight Moon’s lullaby rhythm and moon motif. Indeed, Wise Brown often wove themes from one book into the text or illustration of another, and this new classic continues that tradition. The rhyming text calls for God’s blessing on all the world’s children as a brilliantly glowing moon shines over each one. READ MORE »