Frog's Rainy-Day Story and Other Fables

Mom's Choice GOLD Award Winner!
Designated by WORLD Magazine one of the top six Christian-themed picture books published in the 21st Century.

Eight imaginative, entertaining, and colorfully illustrated fables teach children sound values and practical life lessons. An ideal way for parents, grandparents, and Christian educators to share a biblical worldview with the next generation.

Enriched by more than 50 whimsical illustrations, this award-winning, 72-page hardcover book by husband-and-wife team Michael and Sarah Dowling, is a keepsake the whole family will enjoy reading again and again.

This captivating book of timely tales helps readers young and old live according to timeless Scriptural truths in our increasingly confusing world. A glossary helps younger children understand more difficult words.

A complementary "Burrowing Deeper" study guide with thought-provoking questions about each fable is available as a free download from www.FrogsRainyDayStory.com . This is an ideal learning resource for personal reflection, family devotions, home school studies, Christian school and church Sunday school classes, and small group discussions.

Michael J. Dowling provides award-winning professional writing and publishing-assistance services to thought leaders. In addition to ghostwriting and editing dozens of books over the past twenty years, he is the author of Boosting Your Pet’s Self-Esteem, a humorous satire of the self-esteem craze published by MacMillan, and Flip Along Fun, an interactive, educational children’s flip book that received the internationally respected Mom’s Choice Award. From 1987 to 1999. Michael served on the staff of Trinity Presbyterian Church, a 1000-member PCA church in Charlottesville, VA. Prior to 1986, he held leadership positions in a variety of business corporations in the Boston area. Michael earned an MBA degree from Columbia Business School in New York City, where he was a Harriman Scholar, and an engineering degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Sarah Buell Dowling is an award-winning artist and illustrator. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, she continued her post-graduate studies at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts, and in private workshops with numerous nationally recognized artists. Recognition for Sarah’s art includes First Prize in Watermedia at the Biennale National Exhibition 2015 in Hilton Head, South Carolina, as well as various awards from the Georgia Watercolor Society, the Southern Watercolor Society, the Watercolor Society of Alabama, and other organizations. Sarah has illustrated three books and several children’s toys. One set of stacking blocks received the Toys of the Year award from Parenting Magazine; another was chosen as a Children’s Book of the Month Club Main Selection.