God Has A Plan For Boys and For Girls

Children/Stories/Primary

This book is for boys. This book is for girls.

This book is for you!

“We all hope for something. We’re all afraid of something. We all like something best of all.

Still, we’re different.”

Help girls and boys discover who they are. God Has a Plan for Boys and for Girls affirms the gift of gender in a joyful, engaging, and easy-to-understand way. Teach the children in your life about identity, equality, and God’s plan for them.

$12.95 U.S. ISBN 0-8198-3131-X

Written by

Monica Ashour www.JClubCatholic.org

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Illustrated by

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God Has a Plan for Boys and for Girls

Written by

Monica Ashour, MTS, MHum Illustrated by

Marilee Harrald-足Pilz

Boston

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ashour, Monica.

God has a plan for boys and for girls / written by Monica Ashour, MTS, M Hum ; illustrated by Marilee Harrald-Pilz. pages cm Summary: “This book attaches gender identity to being rather than doing and reinforces common humanity and individual uniqueness”-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-0-8198-3131-6 (soft cover) -- ISBN 0-8198-3131-X (soft cover) 1. Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity--Juvenile literature. 2. Gender identity--Religious aspects--Christianity--Juvenile literature. I. Harrald-Pilz, Marilee. II. Title.

BT708.A785 2015 233’.5--dc23 2014046148

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Cover and book design by Mary Joseph Peterson, FSP Text copyright © 2015, Monica Ashour Illustrations copyright © 2015, Daughters of St. Paul “P” and PAULINE are registered trademarks of the Daughters of St. Paul.

Published by Pauline Books & Media, 50 Saint Pauls Avenue, Boston, MA 02130–­3491 Printed in U.S.A. GPBG VSAUSAPEOILL2-1710033 2393-7 www.pauline.org

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Everybody is a person.

We all have human bodies and human souls, human minds and human hearts.

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We all hope for something—

that the sun will shine . . .

or that we catch a frog . . .

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or that Lizzie can come along . . . or that we don’t have any homework today.

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We’re all afraid of something—­

hairy monsters . . .

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or bugs . . .

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or the dark . . .

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or falling down . . . or spelling tests.

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We all like something best of all—­airplanes . . . or hamsters . . . or spinning in circles . . .

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or making things . . . or the color blue.

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