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MORE PARABLES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE
Lawrence Castagnola, SJ Paper, $8.95 82 pages, 5½" × 8½" ISBN 0-89390-095-8 |
Larry Castagnola writes children’s stories with a happy, positive message. Themes include caring, sharing, non-violence and human rights. The other stories retell the New Testament parables without mentioning the characters’ names. These stories are designed to help parents and teachers who search for alternatives to the main plot of so many children’s stories today: death from a laser beam. These parables are rich with literary fantasy and delightful illustrations, so young people of all ages will surely enjoy them. And while they’re enjoying, they will also be learning some of the greatest lessons ever taught.
Reviews
“Larry Castagnola offers us a wonderfully warm and witty collection of
parables. Readers should be forewarned. If you pick up these stories, if you
accept his invitations, if you listen, if you enter into these parables
imaginatively, you do so at your own risk. You cannot help but be
transformed.”
— Michael E. Moynahan, S.J.
“Larry Castagnola is well known by our readers of the past 15 years
for his pastoral reflections. Now he has condensed his pastoral insights into
these imaginative tales that can be used by children as well as
adults.”
— The Rev. Ignatius W. Staniszewski, S.S.P., editor, Pastoral
Life
About the Author
Larry Castagnola holds master’s degrees in philosophy from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., and in theology from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, Calif. In 1970, he founded Castagnola’s Family, Inc., a home for boys in Sacramento, Calif., and in 1981, he founded a home for developmentally disabled men in Sacramento. He has taught at the high-school level intermittently for the past 30 years, and has served as chairperson of the Sacramento Diocese Social Concerns Commission. He frequently travels to Central America to do pastoral work.