A FEW REVIEWS:
"The Grand Master/Little Master Series of books teach children some very important messages about what it means to live a good and loving life. May they bless many, many young minds."
--- Marianne Williamson
Author of: THE LAW OF DIVINE COMPENSATION:
On Work, Money and Miracles
"Patricia Merker's The Grand Master-Little Master Series of books is an invaluable tool for cultivating an early understanding of life's universal principles and building a sense of individual empowerment within the minds and hearts of young children. Its warmth and wisdom supports children in defining themselves in ways that lead to lives filled with possibilities and motivated by joy."
--- Michael Bernard Beckwith
Author of Life Visioning
Review of book two, Sink or Swim
by Linda Lee Ratto, EdM,
Former co-leader of Neale Donald Walsch's School of the New Spirituality
12 time author including, Where Dreams Come True:
Fear. Even the most experienced, educated of us can be bowled-over by a child's frightened, fear-filled feelings. How to cope and learn how to deal with these normal, human feelings? Read Sink or Swim by Patricia Merker and follow-up with the fun and poignant activities suggested on the Grand Master/Little Master section of [...]. Every professional or parent working and playing with youth can use a refreshing way to address life's challenges. The sweet, clear GM/LM book series is a new way to bring-up -- in story conversation -- such vital and sometimes deeply moving life issues as fear while giving ways to teach how to live well through them with life-lasting skill.
Where Dreams Come True: http://www.amazon.com/Where-Dreams-Come-Linda-Ratto/dp/0974850802/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323542255&sr=1-4
Review of book three, Love Has Many Faces
Linda Lee Ratto, EdM
How do you teach a child that grumpy or "non-smiley" people can love and can still have loving care inside them?
How is a child to find the love inside those around us?
This book shares, through story, ways to make clear that love and care can look different in many kinds of people, and that people show caring in lots of differing forms. And the characters - student, teacher, parent, and friend - in this book beautifully and simply depict the concept: we all learn from one another. This helps children see that they are as valuable as any adult - as valuable as any person! Bravo author, Patricia Merker.
Rev. Pat Palmer, Director of a Unity Youth and Family Ministry:
I am thrilled with this series! I am continually looking for books which are fun for the kids, yet provide a way for them to have a sense of the presence and power of Spirit always near and available to them. Patricia Merker’s books actually do both, and in a way that isn’t boring for parents. I wanted to keep on reading myself!
The dialogue is realistic and the challenges like those which children routinely encounter. The concerns of the characters Haley and Jordan are described in ways which can allow our little ones to admit they have those worries and fears too! And the wisdom and love of Grand Master is delivered mysteriously, allowing them the full resource of their imagination.
These books are already a tremendous gift if read to or given to children! However, they also provide a way for parents and other caring adults to play Grand Master, and perhaps to invite the Little Master in all children to come out to play! Thank you Ms. Merker for your ingenious approach to children’s spirituality!
Rev. Pat Palmer
San Rafael, CA
Sara L. Chapman
Author of "Flowers of Volunteer Park Conservatory: Blooming Month by Month."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935359800/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk:
What a fascinating book! Gives parents so much help, with thoughtful ways to deal with their children's fears. Spirituality is only good as far as it helps us lead our daily lives, and this book gets down to real-life issues that can be so frustrating for everyone who deals with children. Haley is such a real little girl; I felt her worries really echo with me. Highly recommended
.
Grand Master Little Master Series - Spiritual books for children | A review by Mom On A Spiritual Journey
June 14, 2012 By Sarah (Tall Timbers, MD United States)
A great read for you and your children if you are looking for easy to read books with great spiritual depth by
new author, Patricia Merker.
These books introduce spiritual concepts to parents and children alike in an easy to read format.
Each Grand Master/Little Master book has a child's story written in a simple format, but don't be deceived, as you and your children get into The Grand Master Little Master Series these books can have a deep and profound effect on you and yours.
Grand Master/Little Master key concepts :
You can call it Grand Master Little Master, or Higher Self and Everyday Self, Soul and Body. Either way, these books introduce higher spiritual concepts to children of a younger age in a very digestible format.
This is done through the mechanism of the `Grand Master' sending the `Little Master' an empowering message by way of a secret letter left under their pillow, which gives them guidance and suggestions about how to deal with a pressing life problem in a spiritual way. Even adults could do with a spirit guide or guru like that!
These three books can be read in any order but they work best as a series of three.
"Love Has Many Faces" tells the story of a young boy called Jordan faced with a first grade teacher who seems cold and uncaring to the class. The boy suffers inside as a result of her behavior and wonders how to change things.
A letter appears from the Grand Master to the Little Master, suggesting that the little boy look into his heart, giving him the invaluable information that "When an adult is mean to a child, it is not because there is something wrong with the child."
The Grand Master also suggests that the Little Master look into his heart, and find a way to make his first grade teacher smile and be warm with the children in the same way that his kindergarten teacher behaved. The entire class finds a way inspired by Jordan using his Grand Master Little Master skills and the teacher's heart is warmed.
Two other books in the Grand Master Little Master Series
There are two other books in this series, The Karate Tournament and The Grand Master/Little Master Series: Sink or Swim.
The Karate Tournament sets the scene where Haley, an older girl, nervously attends a Karate tournament, feeling as if she is the only kid who is nervous and under pressure.
Grand Master comes through in her mother's voice when Haley's mother plays a game with her and says "I am one of the Great Grand Masters of the Universe and I am here to tell you that you are a Little master-in-training". Haley giggles and goes along with this game, learning a universal rule - What You Give Away Always Comes Back.
Haley learns to apply this rule by giving emotional support to a younger boy at the tournament who admits to her that he is even more nervous than she is. She realizes also that he only has his grandpa to support him, but he is at the tournament anyway.
Haley does some wonderful things to help her new friend and realizes in the course of the story that empowerment and winning is not all about competition, but sharing and supporting others too.
Sink or Swim - the third book in the Grand Master Little Master Series
Sink or Swim addresses a problem area for many children - a strong fear about achieving something that others seem to be achieving easily - in this case, being able to swim.
In the Grand Master/Little Master series book, Sink or Swim, our Karate Tournament hero Haley, finds out through letters from Grand Master that when she is afraid of learning to swim, she can choose how to be with her fear - "If the fear has you, you think it is real. The voice of fear is telling you that you cannot swim, and you believe it! What you believe becomes so. It will live in every cell of your body. That voice is not who you are".
Haley learns about positive affirmations and uses those to help her succeed in her swimming lessons. She also begins to understand the nature of our `inner voices' or internal dialogue, that some of those voices and words are just thoughts and do not necessarily serve us well.
The Grand Master/Little Master Series by Patricia Merker - Printable Parental Support Material available on the web site and
these books are great tools for parents!
The Grand Master Little Master Series really has me thinking...how can I play the Grand Master Little Master game with my children and what kinds of spiritual growth will it result in for them?
You may find also that one book resonates more than the rest because of personal history...for me it was
"Love Has Many Faces".
There have been times when as I child I was fearful of teachers...if I had received a letter like the one Jordan received from his Grand Master, it would have enabled me to change many feelings about my school days.
These books are powerful tools written in a deceptively simple way.
No wonder Patricia has received a recommendation from internationally acclaimed author Marianne Williamson, who says: "The Grand Master Little Master books teach children some very important messages about what it means to live a good and loving life. May they bless many, many, young minds."
Ready to introduce your little ones to Grand Master ?
Reviewed by Sarah at Mom on A Spiritual Journey
Review of book two, Sink or Swim
By Rebecca Johnson of 'The Rebecca Review' on Amazon:
Patricia Merker has written a helpful book to encourage children to overcome their fears by listening to their true voice and not the voice of fear. Sink or Swim is based on a true story. This book provides gentle guidance to children who are especially fearful of life's many challenges. Patricia teaches that fear is normal but that it can be overcome. The main character in the story is named Haley. She is especially scared of swimming. She loves everything about summer except she can't face her fear when she gets in the water. She thinks she will drown and is literally terrified. It is only after she receives a letter under her pillow teaching her to overcome her fear that she is able to let herself enjoy swimming. The basic story is wonderful and teaches children important lessons.
Barbara Klonga:
I picked this book up on a lark, but it is one of the best children's books I've read to my grandchildren.
I will definitely recommend it to my friends, and will also go out and get the other two. Thank you to the author
for giving us some wonderful material for kids in this day and age (when people are struggling so much). We're
ready for the next!
Pam Rogers:
I've read the first two books and will buy the third. It's difficult to teach young ones how to overcome their fears and teach them to have great self esteem. Great books!!
"The Grand Master/Little Master Series of books teach children some very important messages about what it means to live a good and loving life. May they bless many, many young minds."
--- Marianne Williamson
Author of: THE LAW OF DIVINE COMPENSATION:
On Work, Money and Miracles
"Patricia Merker's The Grand Master-Little Master Series of books is an invaluable tool for cultivating an early understanding of life's universal principles and building a sense of individual empowerment within the minds and hearts of young children. Its warmth and wisdom supports children in defining themselves in ways that lead to lives filled with possibilities and motivated by joy."
--- Michael Bernard Beckwith
Author of Life Visioning
Review of book two, Sink or Swim
by Linda Lee Ratto, EdM,
Former co-leader of Neale Donald Walsch's School of the New Spirituality
12 time author including, Where Dreams Come True:
Fear. Even the most experienced, educated of us can be bowled-over by a child's frightened, fear-filled feelings. How to cope and learn how to deal with these normal, human feelings? Read Sink or Swim by Patricia Merker and follow-up with the fun and poignant activities suggested on the Grand Master/Little Master section of [...]. Every professional or parent working and playing with youth can use a refreshing way to address life's challenges. The sweet, clear GM/LM book series is a new way to bring-up -- in story conversation -- such vital and sometimes deeply moving life issues as fear while giving ways to teach how to live well through them with life-lasting skill.
Where Dreams Come True: http://www.amazon.com/Where-Dreams-Come-Linda-Ratto/dp/0974850802/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323542255&sr=1-4
Review of book three, Love Has Many Faces
Linda Lee Ratto, EdM
How do you teach a child that grumpy or "non-smiley" people can love and can still have loving care inside them?
How is a child to find the love inside those around us?
This book shares, through story, ways to make clear that love and care can look different in many kinds of people, and that people show caring in lots of differing forms. And the characters - student, teacher, parent, and friend - in this book beautifully and simply depict the concept: we all learn from one another. This helps children see that they are as valuable as any adult - as valuable as any person! Bravo author, Patricia Merker.
Rev. Pat Palmer, Director of a Unity Youth and Family Ministry:
I am thrilled with this series! I am continually looking for books which are fun for the kids, yet provide a way for them to have a sense of the presence and power of Spirit always near and available to them. Patricia Merker’s books actually do both, and in a way that isn’t boring for parents. I wanted to keep on reading myself!
The dialogue is realistic and the challenges like those which children routinely encounter. The concerns of the characters Haley and Jordan are described in ways which can allow our little ones to admit they have those worries and fears too! And the wisdom and love of Grand Master is delivered mysteriously, allowing them the full resource of their imagination.
These books are already a tremendous gift if read to or given to children! However, they also provide a way for parents and other caring adults to play Grand Master, and perhaps to invite the Little Master in all children to come out to play! Thank you Ms. Merker for your ingenious approach to children’s spirituality!
Rev. Pat Palmer
San Rafael, CA
Sara L. Chapman
Author of "Flowers of Volunteer Park Conservatory: Blooming Month by Month."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935359800/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk:
What a fascinating book! Gives parents so much help, with thoughtful ways to deal with their children's fears. Spirituality is only good as far as it helps us lead our daily lives, and this book gets down to real-life issues that can be so frustrating for everyone who deals with children. Haley is such a real little girl; I felt her worries really echo with me. Highly recommended
.
Grand Master Little Master Series - Spiritual books for children | A review by Mom On A Spiritual Journey
June 14, 2012 By Sarah (Tall Timbers, MD United States)
A great read for you and your children if you are looking for easy to read books with great spiritual depth by
new author, Patricia Merker.
These books introduce spiritual concepts to parents and children alike in an easy to read format.
Each Grand Master/Little Master book has a child's story written in a simple format, but don't be deceived, as you and your children get into The Grand Master Little Master Series these books can have a deep and profound effect on you and yours.
Grand Master/Little Master key concepts :
You can call it Grand Master Little Master, or Higher Self and Everyday Self, Soul and Body. Either way, these books introduce higher spiritual concepts to children of a younger age in a very digestible format.
This is done through the mechanism of the `Grand Master' sending the `Little Master' an empowering message by way of a secret letter left under their pillow, which gives them guidance and suggestions about how to deal with a pressing life problem in a spiritual way. Even adults could do with a spirit guide or guru like that!
These three books can be read in any order but they work best as a series of three.
"Love Has Many Faces" tells the story of a young boy called Jordan faced with a first grade teacher who seems cold and uncaring to the class. The boy suffers inside as a result of her behavior and wonders how to change things.
A letter appears from the Grand Master to the Little Master, suggesting that the little boy look into his heart, giving him the invaluable information that "When an adult is mean to a child, it is not because there is something wrong with the child."
The Grand Master also suggests that the Little Master look into his heart, and find a way to make his first grade teacher smile and be warm with the children in the same way that his kindergarten teacher behaved. The entire class finds a way inspired by Jordan using his Grand Master Little Master skills and the teacher's heart is warmed.
Two other books in the Grand Master Little Master Series
There are two other books in this series, The Karate Tournament and The Grand Master/Little Master Series: Sink or Swim.
The Karate Tournament sets the scene where Haley, an older girl, nervously attends a Karate tournament, feeling as if she is the only kid who is nervous and under pressure.
Grand Master comes through in her mother's voice when Haley's mother plays a game with her and says "I am one of the Great Grand Masters of the Universe and I am here to tell you that you are a Little master-in-training". Haley giggles and goes along with this game, learning a universal rule - What You Give Away Always Comes Back.
Haley learns to apply this rule by giving emotional support to a younger boy at the tournament who admits to her that he is even more nervous than she is. She realizes also that he only has his grandpa to support him, but he is at the tournament anyway.
Haley does some wonderful things to help her new friend and realizes in the course of the story that empowerment and winning is not all about competition, but sharing and supporting others too.
Sink or Swim - the third book in the Grand Master Little Master Series
Sink or Swim addresses a problem area for many children - a strong fear about achieving something that others seem to be achieving easily - in this case, being able to swim.
In the Grand Master/Little Master series book, Sink or Swim, our Karate Tournament hero Haley, finds out through letters from Grand Master that when she is afraid of learning to swim, she can choose how to be with her fear - "If the fear has you, you think it is real. The voice of fear is telling you that you cannot swim, and you believe it! What you believe becomes so. It will live in every cell of your body. That voice is not who you are".
Haley learns about positive affirmations and uses those to help her succeed in her swimming lessons. She also begins to understand the nature of our `inner voices' or internal dialogue, that some of those voices and words are just thoughts and do not necessarily serve us well.
The Grand Master/Little Master Series by Patricia Merker - Printable Parental Support Material available on the web site and
these books are great tools for parents!
The Grand Master Little Master Series really has me thinking...how can I play the Grand Master Little Master game with my children and what kinds of spiritual growth will it result in for them?
You may find also that one book resonates more than the rest because of personal history...for me it was
"Love Has Many Faces".
There have been times when as I child I was fearful of teachers...if I had received a letter like the one Jordan received from his Grand Master, it would have enabled me to change many feelings about my school days.
These books are powerful tools written in a deceptively simple way.
No wonder Patricia has received a recommendation from internationally acclaimed author Marianne Williamson, who says: "The Grand Master Little Master books teach children some very important messages about what it means to live a good and loving life. May they bless many, many, young minds."
Ready to introduce your little ones to Grand Master ?
Reviewed by Sarah at Mom on A Spiritual Journey
Review of book two, Sink or Swim
By Rebecca Johnson of 'The Rebecca Review' on Amazon:
Patricia Merker has written a helpful book to encourage children to overcome their fears by listening to their true voice and not the voice of fear. Sink or Swim is based on a true story. This book provides gentle guidance to children who are especially fearful of life's many challenges. Patricia teaches that fear is normal but that it can be overcome. The main character in the story is named Haley. She is especially scared of swimming. She loves everything about summer except she can't face her fear when she gets in the water. She thinks she will drown and is literally terrified. It is only after she receives a letter under her pillow teaching her to overcome her fear that she is able to let herself enjoy swimming. The basic story is wonderful and teaches children important lessons.
Barbara Klonga:
I picked this book up on a lark, but it is one of the best children's books I've read to my grandchildren.
I will definitely recommend it to my friends, and will also go out and get the other two. Thank you to the author
for giving us some wonderful material for kids in this day and age (when people are struggling so much). We're
ready for the next!
Pam Rogers:
I've read the first two books and will buy the third. It's difficult to teach young ones how to overcome their fears and teach them to have great self esteem. Great books!!
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