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Crazy About Christmas
by MyLinda Butterworth
What is the importance of the number 45? It is the number of days from Thanksgiving to Epiphany, or the number of days of the Christmas season. Crazy for Christmas is made to simplify your holiday season by offering a story, an activity, and a recipe for each of those days. Imagine being able to have an instant answer for the questions, “What are we going to do today?” The book is listed by day with 45 different stories to read, 45 different activities/crafts/games, and more than 45 recipes it is an advent book for the modern world.
Buy it now in paperbook ( https://tinyurl.com/yn36e374 ) or Ebook ( https://tinyurl.com/2pp82627 )
A modern day advent calendar with an old-fashioned Christmas feel, a book that you can follow everyday or pick and choose what things to do, read or eat each day. So sit back, open the pages of this book and immerse yourself in the joy that is Christmas and carry that feeling with you all year long.
- Paperback: 328 pages $19.95
- Ebook: ASIN : B0BKX1Q78C $2.99
- ISBN-13: 978-1890905736
- ISBN-10: 1890905739
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Nathan Meets His Monsters
by Joseph Kropp, Ph.D.
Illustrated by Phillip Johnston
One night a little boy named Nathan heard something that upset him… And suddenly he saw MONSTERS! Join Nathan on an adventure as he unravels the mystery of his monsters in Joseph Kropp’s new picture book, “Nathan Meets His Monsters” – a playful introduction to the Internal Family Systems Therapy Model written specifically for children and their families.
Read more about Nathan in the Review section.
- ISBN-10: 1890905593 (Hardcover)
- ISBN-10: 1890905585 (Softcover)
- 34 pages
- Price: Hardcover $16.95 / Softcover $9.95
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The Monster Run
by MyLinda Butterworth
illustrations by Matthew Mercer winner of the iParenting Media Award
Nicole is afraid of the dark. No matter how many times her mommy tells her there are no monsters, Nicole knows they are hiding in her room — in the closet, under her bed, and in the clothes she sometimes leaves on the floor.
Sound familiar? Most children know what Nicole is going through — and most parents can relate as well. But how can a parent calm these fears?
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- ISBN-10: 1890905232
- Age Range: 3 and up
- Hardcover
- 32 pages
- Price: $14.95
MyLinda Butterworth offers a novel solution in her new book, The Monster Run. Written by Butterworth, with colorful and amusing illustrations by Matthew Mercer, The Monster Run is “based on a true story.” “When my daughter excitedly told me how Papa had chased away the monsters forever, I was skeptical,” admits Butterworth. “But true to his word, the monsters never came back to our house.”
Children, parents, and of course, grandparents, will love the fun yet easy way to banish monsters forever, yet leave any child feeling safe and loved. The perfect bedtime story.
Other bedtime tips Butterworth (and her parents) suggest include a routine like the one Nicole follows in the book, getting a story, a lullaby, and having a nightlight turned on. Butterworth hopes that The Monster Run will help many more children find peace in the darkness.
Publisher Comments:”This book does what a classic bedtime storybook should— it gives giggles and comfort. It allows you to empower a child with the ability to get rid of the monsters in the house with the loving help of an adult. We believe you will be find the “based on a true story” approach gives you and your children an I can do it to feeling. We however warn you that you might actually have to chase the monsters from the house after reading the book to your kids over, and over and over again.”
Author Comments: “There is nothing like a real life experience to inspire you to write a book. So it was with “The Monster Run.” As most parents know going out with your spouse when your kids are young is a treat, but coming home to hilarious stories is choice beyond words. Hearing about how my father chased the monsters from the house with my 4 year old daughter was a laught a minute, I only wish I could have seen it. It is my hope that just like my daugher you will find peace in the darkness.”
“P.S. The monsters never came back and we all lived happily ever after.”
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Winner President’s Book Award 2007
Bowleg’s Bounty
by Joseph Kropp
Follow Benjamin, Martin, and their parents on an unforgettable vacation to Florida’s Emerald Coast. Did their parents know they would run into the pirate, Billy Bowlegs, the night they arrived at the beach – or was that a coincidence? How does their dad know so much about Captain Bowlegs? And how does their mom always pull just the right thing out of her bag at just the right time?
Listen in each night, as Mr. Kaye weaves their vacation adventures into the fabric of the bedtime stories he tells of Tip and Tap, boys whose lust for riches leads them on a perilous quest for Bowlegs’ treasure. Believing him to be so rich he wouldn’t miss it, Tip inadvertently steals the one thing the treacherous pirate holds most dear. When Bowlegs vows to recapture his prize, will Tip and Tap survive his wrath, or will dead men tell no tales?
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- ISBN 10: 1-890905-24-0
- ISBN 13: 978-1890905248
- Ages: 8-12
- 5.5″ x 8.5″ softcover
- 192 pages
- Price: $9.95
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Hickok’s Gold
by Joseph Kropp
Chapter Book – Ages 8-12
204 Pages
Saddle up for Another Kaye Family Adventure Remember piling into the back seat in your pajamas, sleeping through the dark morning hours while your parents drove to that far away vacation destination? When Benjamin and Martin finally arrive in the Black Hills, Mr. Kaye is ready with campfire stories of Cowboys, Indians, and Gold in the Old West, where danger and intrigue lurk behind every boulder and legendary characters appear along every trail in the quest for Wild Bill Hickok’s lost gold mine.
The family’s adventures are woven into the nightly epic, blurring the line between reality and myth, as the boys solve ancient riddles and make priceless discoveries. Hickok’s Gold continues the Kaye Family Adventure Series that began with the book, Bowlegs’ Bounty.
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- ISBN 10: 1-890905-24-0
- ISBN 13: 978-1-890905-25-5
- Ages: 8-12
- 5.5″ x 8.5″ softcover
- 204 pages
- Price: $11.95
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There’s a Frog on a Log in the Bog
by Robert O. Day
Illustrated by Linda S. Day
What happens when a modern-day fable collides with the Florida wetlands? Frogazoom! You enter the world of Eco-Fictionª where the real world meets the fictional Og, the king of the frogs. Follow the adventures of this noisy frog as he sings, eats and hops his way around the St. Johns River area. Learn about what kind of bugs and other creatures live near the bog and how they deal with this adventuresome frog.
A 112 page chapter book for ages 9-12. Included at the end of the book are several pages of Eco-Facts where you can learn about Florida’s critters and environment. Number 1 in the Just So Wild series.
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- ISBN: 1-890905-50-X paperback
- ISBN: 1-890905-51-8 hardcover
- 112 pages
- Price: $9.95 softcover – $14.95 hardcover
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Frogazoom!
by Linda Day & MyLinda Butterworth
Once upon a time there where three brothers who decided that it was time to go and make a living for themselves. Their mother warned them about a bad frog name Og, but did they listen? Follow their adventures as they meet other bog dwelling creatures that help them outsmart Og, the big fat bullfrog. Around every corner lies danger for the true bugs of the bog.
Can they outsmart Og this time? What will tomorrow hold for them? Be surprised at the outcome … is it the beginning or the end for the true bugs?
The only way to find out is to read the color filled pages of this fast moving book for kids 4-8. Eco-facts appear at the back of the book to help children learn more about the real habitat of the bog.
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- ISBN: 1-890905-03-8
- Ages: 4-8
- Hardcover
- 32 pages
- Price: $14.95
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| STORYTELLING CDs | Just So Wild:Animal Stories from around the world |
StoryMasters are the Tandem Storytelling Team of Linda S. Day and MyLinda Butterworth also known as Grandma and Myndy. Take a wild ride as you listen to them tell Animals stories from around the world like: The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Lion and the Mouse, The Elephant’s Child, The Bremen Town Musicians and Ramah and the Tigers. You have never heard anything like it … they grab you and bring you right into the story. It is amazing. You should take a listen and you will understand why this CD is called Just So Wild.
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- ISBN: 1-890905-26-7
- Price: $15.00
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| CRAFTBOOKS – MAGIC SCISSORS SERIES | Our paper crafting books are scissor happy fun anytime of the year. Each book helps you to discover more about this ancient paper-cutting art from award-winning author Linda S. Day |
Winner of Four Awards
Grandma’s Magic Scissors™:
Paper Cutting from A-Z
by Linda S.Day
Winner IPPY Highlighted Title
ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist
IPPY Honorable Mention
President’s Book Award 2007
Winner of three national and one regional awards!For nearly 2000 years people have been creating art with only scissors and paper. Hans Christian Anderson used to use paper cutting to help tell his stories but the practice slipped away-till now. Grandma’s Magic Scissors: Paper Cutting from A-Z by Linda S. Day puts stories and paper cutting back together again. The result is pure magic.
This is the kind of crafting, how-to-book that teachers, crafters and parents are looking for. With this book at your fingertips you will find simple, easy instructions on how to fold the paper, copy the patterns and cut out the artwork. Over 100 full sized patterns plus stories and poems that go with the patterns. These patterns can be used for telling stories, scrapbooking, home décor and more. Adults will be reminded of the joy of folding paper and cutting shapes, which become snowflakes, hearts, dragons and more. It will help children develop fine motor skills as they create magic with their own scissors and spend hours turning plain paper into art that is limited only by their own imaginations.
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- ISBN: 1-890905-68-2
- 8.5 x 11 softcover
- 160 pages
- Price: $20.00
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MAGIC SCISSORS™ BY THE SEASHORE
by Linda S. Day
Magic Scissors by the Seashore by award winning author Linda S. Day, is the follow up to her highly successful book Grandma’s Magic Scissors, a winner of several national and state awards. Linda invites readers of all ages to enjoy the words, pictures and the simple step-by-step process in creating your own magical scissor cutouts in and around the seashore. Magic Scissors by the Seashore lets you dip your feet in the proverbial sand and with your scissors cut out dolphins, crabs, divers and so much more.
Linda offers a message that within every blank sheet of paper, a story of magic and mystery awaits. Make your folds, match your pattern and cut away to reveal something truly special. Over time, readers will begin to create their own patterns, and from here the fun never ends. Magic Scissors by the Seashore takes you on a journey under the sea where you will learn to cut out spectacular images like seahorses, pelicans, octopus and divers but you will learn a little science too.
- ISBN-10: 1890905690
- Softcover
- 136 pages
- Price: $14.95
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MAGIC SCISSORS™ GOES HERALDIC
by Linda S. Day
This is the third book in the Magic Scissors™ series. In Magic Scissors™ Goes Heraldic, Linda S. Day aka Grandma introduces us to the beauty of the symbols of the Medieval period of time when flags flew high as knights marched off to battle, and symbols that represented the office you held within kingdom was easily seen on your garments. Claudia Bosworth offers historical notes on each of the heraldic symbols. Grandma also has included classic myths and folk tales to go along with her fold-and-cut designs.
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- ISBN-10: 1890905704
- Softcover
- 176 pages
- Price: $20.00
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THE FOUR SEASONS WITH MAGIC SCISSORS SERIES
The Four Seasons with Magic Scissors is here. Grandma teams up with her daughter MyLinda Butterworth to create four new Magic Scissor books. Each book covers a different season and includes holidays, suggested books to read, stories, facts and hours of fun with nothing but your scissors, paper, and your paper punches for hours of fun.
Springtime With Magic Scissors™
Book One
by Linda S. Day and MyLinda Butterworth
Springtime with Magic Scissors was created for the child in each us. When spring arrives we want to go outside and enjoy the pleasant weather. While you are waiting for the rain to stop, Springtime, allows you to spend hours with simple tools like paper, scissors and paper punches to create leprechauns, bunnies, butterflies, flowers, and a multitude of other spring and spring holiday inspired images. Then you can use your images to enhance the reading or telling of a story from a book, decorate a wall, or create scrapbook pages or even quilt designs, the possibilities are endless. This is the first book of the with Magic Scissors™ series which will cover all four seasons of the year and includes book suggestions, facts, and a list of holidays, Grandma (aka Linda S. Day) teams up with her daughter, MyLinda Butterworth to create a crafting book for kids, parents, educators and storytellers to enjoy. So open this book and let’s all be cut-ups together.
- ISBN: 978-1890905712
- 8.5 x 11 softcover
- 124 pages
- Price $12.99
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Summer Sizzles With Magic Scissors™
Book Two
by Linda S. Day and MyLinda Butterworth
Summer was created for the child in each us. When summer arrives we want to go outside and enjoy the pleasant weather. School is out and vacation begins we want to be always be doing something. Summertime means playing in the water, camping, picnics and several types of holidays. For those times when the weather misbehaves or is too hot we offer you some fun inside with simple tools like paper, scissors and paper punches to create campfires, mermaids, baseball, bucking broncos, and a multitude of other summer activities and holiday inspired images. Then you can use your images to enhance the reading or telling of a story from a book, decorate a wall, or create scrapbook pages or even quilt designs, the possibilities are endless. This is the second book of the with Magic Scissors™ series which will cover all four seasons of the year and includes book suggestions, facts, and a list of holidays.
- ISBN: 978-1890905712
- 8.5 x 11 softcover
- 136 pages
- Price: $12.99
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Autumn Adventures With Magic Scissors™
Book Three
by Linda S. Day and MyLinda Butterworth
Autumn has finally arrived and MyLinda and Grandma are so excited to see what kind of adventures await us as we imagine where our Magic Scissors will take us as we discover more fold-and-cut their images within our paper. Are you ready to use your imagination? Adults and children will delight in creating the 3-D images for their projects, decorations, luminaries, displays, and just for the sheer fun found in paper cutting and the ancient art of scherenschnitte. Autumn Adventures with Magic Scissors is designed for home, church, school, and groups to use. This is book three in the With Magic Scissors series.
- ISBN: 978-1890905620
- 8.5 x 11 softcover
- 136 pages
- Price: $12.99
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Winter Fun With Magic Scissors™ Book Four
by Linda S. Day and MyLinda Butterworth
Winter Fun With Magic Scissors™ was created for the child in each us. When the air is brisk and there is snow on the ground some will want to go outside and play, while others wish for something quiet and creative. Winter Fun allows you to spend hours with simple tools like paper, scissors and paper punches to create snowflakes, fairies, angels and a multitude of other winter inspired images. Then you can use your images to enhance the reading or telling of a story from a book or one from your own imagination. In the fourth book of the Magic Scissors™ series, Grandma (aka Linda S. Day) teams up with her daughter, MyLinda Butterworth to create a crafting book for kids, parents, educators, and storytellers to enjoy. So open this book and let’s all be cut-ups together. Over 50 full-sized patterns along with stories and poems.
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- ISBN: 978-1890905712
- 8.5 x 11 softcover
- 100 pages
- Price: $12.99
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| HOLIDAY BOOKS | Our Holiday Books provide plenty of stories, activities, and recipes for building family and personal traditions that can last for years. |
Countdown to Christmas
by MyLinda Butterworth
Christmas from December 1st through January 6th. What child doesn’t anxiously wait for Christmas to come? Christmas is a magical time of year. Friends and family gather closely by the fire with warm cups and warmer hearts. Merriment and festivity are the order of each day, and goodwill toward all is shared and celebrated. Christmas is a time for family, a time for sharing stories, activities, food, and a fabulous way to create memories. Countdown to Christmas provides all of the above. Award-winning author and professional storyteller, MyLinda Butterworth, has packed this book with 37 days of Christmas with old and new stories, fun crafts and activities and tasty food for December 1st through January 6th the final day of Christmas or Epiphany.
A modern day advent calendar with an old-fashioned Christmas feel, a book that you can follow everyday or pick and choose what things to do, read or eat each day. So sit back, open the pages of this book and immerse yourself in the joy that is Christmas and carry that feeling with you all year long.
- ISBN: 978-1890905576
- softcover
- 248 pages
- $19.95
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Just 24 Days Till Christmas
by MyLinda Butterworth
Here’s a remedy for what ails the modern Christmas. Just 24 Days Till Christmasby award-winning author MyLinda Butterworth. This is a book for all ages which delivers what today’s Santa’s can’t—directions and fun for celebrating Christmas as a family. A smorgasbord of activities for everyone, young and old, children and adults It is more than a recipe, craft, activity, or storybook. It wraps all of these into one with each of the 24 days leading to Christmas. An advent calendar with a twist. Destined to be a Perennial Favorite.
Popular with busy families who want to find ways to build traditions with their children. Individuals who want to find new ways to celebrate the holiday. Teachers will use all the stories and activities for their classrooms. A great gift idea at an affordable price.
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- ISBN: 978-1-890905-10-1
- softcover
- 224 pages
- Price: $16.95
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| COOKBOOKS | Our cookbook, based upon personal experience, provides inspiration and healthy cooking. |
For Health’s Sake
by MyLinda Butterworth
After triumphing over cancer at the age of 22, MyLinda disregards regular chemotherapy treatment and sets out on her own to find a healthful way to deal with the prognosis. The result is this cookbook for healthy cooking. A book based on moderation in all things, not fads. It has nutritional information on all recipes. Good food and good for you.
For Health’s Sake was first written in 1981 after so many people requested MyLinda’s recipes for healthy cooking. When the first printing sold out, the book was retired. However, the people’s interest did not. After being revised for today’s health concise society, For Health’s Sake, A Cancer Survivor’s Cookbook is back again to celebrate MyLinda’s 21+ years of cancer free living.
Inside it’s pages is her story of survival against the odds, chemotherapy, and a desire to find a healthy way to deal with the prognosis. Over 200 delicious recipes with the nutritional values we’ve come to expect. There are short articles packed with information about the foods we eat and how to make them work better for you. This book is based on the principal of moderation in all things. It is more than just another cookbook, it will change the way you think about the foods you eat and the way you cook.
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- ISBN: 1-890905-18-6 hardcover
- ISBN: 1-890905-06-4 softcover
- 224 pages
- Price: $16.95 Softcover — $24.95 Hardcover
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| INSPIRATION – SELF-HELP | Our Self-Help books provide personal perspectives on inspirational self-help. |
Hope for the Wounded Heart
by Deborah Kalinyak L.M.H.C
In Hope for the Wounded Heart, by award-winning author and mental health counselor, Deborah Kalinyak shares her own path to emotional healing and her thoughts about mental wellness and spiritual grace. This book will take you on a journey from your head to your heart and you will come to realize that you are not alone.
From the Author: This book is especially dedicated to all those people who have been hurt in the name of religion, who grew up with a God who was portrayed to be mean.
It also is dedicated to those people who, through the ages, have suffered physically and emotionally because some humans with religious authority thought they should. My prayer is that you would come to know a loving and accepting God through the pages of this book which tells about my own journey in healing and spiritual grace.
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- ISBN: 1-890905-14-3
- softcover 6″ x 9″
- 144 pages
- Price: $14.95
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HOPE SANDWICH
by Millie Nohren
Grief doesn’t come with an appetite, but we still come to the table.
Hope Sandwich…Finding Your Recipe in Life After Loss is a gift book for people who are grieving after a loss. Focused on hope rather than grief, it invites readers to express their own story of how we can grow closer to God in the midst of loss.
It begins with the loss of a child leaving the family only one place to turn: their deep and abiding faith. While facing the difficulties of grief, they coped through a metaphorical meal of hope sandwiches representing the positive dreams and aspirations for themselves and the lost child.
Millie Nohren knows what it is like to lose a child. She’s been there. She knows the difficulty of grief. She’s been there. Her story evolved into Hope Sandwich which shows how she made a recipe for her life after loss and that others can too.
Loving words, hopeful scriptures, uplifting photos, prayers and pages for readers to start their own grief journal, Hope Sandwich is well suited for families with any type of loss.
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- ISBN: 1-890905-56-9
- 48 pages
- Price: $14.95
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| HISTORY | Our History books provide unique perspectives on events in our past. |
Under Wraps: one soldiers hidden diary of WWII
by Jay Coffman with Tom Fulks
Under Wraps is a compilation of a clandestine diary Army sergeant Jay Coffman kept during his involvement in World War II’s Pacific Theater. It was against regulations to keep a diary during that campaign due to operational security reasons, so the author had to keep it hidden away from his superiors eyes. This book provides an intimate window into one American family s support of the war and the family members involved in it at home and on the front lines.
Military historians will find this a good firsthand source of details of what life was like on the Pacific islands, what their day-to-day concerns were, and the enormous logistical challenges faced by our troops. During this summer s celebration of WWII vets, this book will be a good source of information to those of us wishing to pay tribute to the men and women who helped defeat worldwide tyranny.
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- ISBN: 1-890905-052-6
- softcover 6″x9″
- 333 pages
- Price: $16.95
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The Enoch Train Pioneers:
Trek of the First Two handcart companies-1856
by Robert O. Day
Illustrated by Linda S. Day
On September 26, 1856 the first two handcart companies arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. They were weary of body but joyous in spirit as they walked into the valley having begun their journey Liverpool, England on route by clipper ship to the America to join other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their trek took them by ship, bus, train and finally by handcart to the Great Salt Lake Valley.
This book recounts the trials and triumphs of their journey based on journals and other historical documents. Originally written in script form and performed to packed audiences at the Museum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City in 1994. This is the story of the first two pioneer handcart companies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and their journey from Liverpool, England to Salt Lake City, Utah. The book is based upon actual journal and diary entries of these real pioneers. This historically accurate script was approved by the General Authorities and has now been adapted to novel form by the author of March of the Mormon Battalion, Called to Serve. This new edition contains the Handcart Logbook along with manifests from the ship, company lists and journal entries along with a full index. A must for genealogists or those interested in early Mormon history.
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- ISBN: 1-890905-21-6 – Second Edition
- softcover 8.25″x11″
- 364 pages
- Price: $27.95
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March of the Mormon Battalion: Called to Serve
by Robert O. Day
Illustrations by Linda S. Day
The March of the Mormon Battalion is a comprehensive history of the Mormon Battalion from its conception to the return of these men and women after its completion. The most complete book of its type. Includes the San Diego Master list showing every man, woman, and child who was part of the Battalion, the company they served with, rank, job held, and those who died. A complete time-line of their march accompanied by maps, journal entries from many different people, as well as military correspondence.
This book contains beautiful illustrations by the author’s wife Linda which will touch your soul. Reads like a novel, but with complete historical accuracy which is only deserving for these men and women who served the Lord faithfully. The enlistment of the Mormon Battalion to fight in the war with Mexico provided the funds, food and supplies to sustain the Saints in reaching the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. Their epic march to California still holds the record of the longest march ever made by U. S. Infantry. Follow the men and women of the Mormon Battalion. Peek into the lives of those who made this march. Feel of their trials and triumphs. Detailed maps follow their daily trek. Beautiful illustrations bring this event to life. The most comprehensive book of its kind. It’s historical accuracy is only deserving for the men and women who served the Lord and their country faithfully.
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- ISBN: 1-890905-17-8
- softcover 8.5″x11″
- 365 pages – 2nd edition
- Price: $29.95