For immediate release

Sara Sgarlat, Publicity Director
434-296-2772,ext. 49
Ssgarlat@hrpub.com

“As a mother, I’m so grateful for this book. 
Teaching spirituality to our children should be top
priority for all of us.  Bravo!” —Marianne Williamson

     Hampton Roads Publishing Company is delighted to announce the first Neale Donald Walsch book for children, The Little Soul and the Sun, with enchanting illustrations by Frank Riccio. Drawn from the pages of New York Times bestseller, Conversations with God, Book 1, Walsch has captured one of the most essential lessons of  love, understanding, and forgiveness in a parable which speaks to children. 
 

     The Little Soul and the Sun is the story of a child who realizes his purpose in life is to embody the quality of forgiveness, but in order to fully experience this beautiful human quality, there must be someone to forgive. This means that there will have to be some problems which the little soul will encounter.

     Adults will recognize this powerful story as a way to assist children (and themselves)  in understanding the variety of challenges in all of our lives, such as why bad things happen, how to joyfully accept those we do not consider our friends, and the true meaning of love.  It teaches children to treasure their special qualities, and to share them with others. Ultimately it offers a opportunity to gently wonder about the profound spiritual question “who am I?”

     Beautifully illustrated with thoughtful and radiant images of a young spirit grappling with these essential lessons, children will identify with the metaphors of candles as inner light, a costume cloak as the darkness, and children as perfect souls.  Frank Riccio is also the illustrator of Curriculum of Love: Cultivating the Spiritual Nature of Children by Morgan Simone Daleo  (Grace Publishing & Communications, 1996).

8 x 11 hardcover, with dust jacket, 32 pages, illustrated, ISBN 57174-087-2, $17.95