Ben Sowards

While Leven, Winter, and sidekicks Geth and Clover battle fantastical creatures in Foo, contrary forces in Reality plan to reconstruct the destroyed gateway between the mythical Foo and their own land.

Penny Paisley holds a party to present the family "Christmas Jar"--a jar in which her family has been saving spare change throughout the year--to an ailing neighbor, Grandpa Charlie.

Mr. Crampton, director of Irongates Orphanage, punishes disobedient Rose by denying her a Christmas orange.

It's 1931 in Bakersfield, California. America is in the midst of the Depression, and the Kamp family is struggling to get by, especially after Mrs. Kamp's untimely death. Now, with her mother gone and her father overwhelmed by doctor bills resulting from her brother's polio, little Ruthie expects another Christmas without presents or festivities. But when her father brings home one dollar in change and lets the children use it to buy special gifts...

Elder Dieter Uchtdorf captivated Latter-day Saints when he spoke in general conference about how his family was brought into the Church shortly after World War II by a wonderful, elderly single woman who invited his nonmember grandmother to Church. In this picture book, richly illustrated by talented artist Ben Sowards, Elder Uchtdorf shares compelling new details from the story about the impact that "Schwester Ewig" (whose German name translates

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