Books by J Arvid Ellison

Going away to a slumber party alone is an absurd concept for a child. However, it is a very subtle and a gentle way for a parent to communicate the basic concepts of grief and transitions of life. Your child understands caterpillars, butterflies, and friendships. If a child ever losses a pet or a friend or an elderly relative; the memory of this simple story can aid a parent to console a child who suffers from loss. Reading the story to the child teaches and prepares for a future event that we as parents would prefer they never experience, but know happens all too often. Let them hear this story and love the conclusion and be fortified with its positive message.

He faced death bravely. Two Names received his first name when he was born. He earned his second name because of what he did. How he got his second name is the subject of this story. The prairie was a dangerous place to live back in the Wild West. Terrible storms and wild stampedes could happen at any moment. The enemy could strike like lightning and you would have to be ready. The story about Two Names tells you how dangerous it was to live back then. It could be scary. It could be deadly. Above all, you had to be very brave.

A bedtime story about sleep is perfect, especially when the story makes fun of the experience, and perhaps even of childhood fears. This whimsical view of sleep takes the youngster and the parent on a romp through slumberland. It teaches kids that there is nothing to be afraid of and everything to enjoy.From quicker trips in the car to foolish ideas about waterfalls, and the words one might say while sleeping, this book takes a child through fantasy and ends at the wonderful world of love that parents have for their children. This book is a classic that will be remembered and told from generation to generation.

As a parent, what would you do to help your child be accepted by their playmates?Perhaps you’ll never face the problem of your child glowing in the dark, like little Luma. However, cultivating an urge on their part to always come to you for advice is a very important step. Let Luma teach them to seek you out at every rough patch in their road of life.

They should have prejudged the prairie with more respect.It was wild, mercurial, unpredictable, and dangerous. Storms, stampedes, and savagery confronted them at every turn. Some did not survive. For those who survived, they would never be the same. Perhaps they should have waited a month or two before they started to follow the well-worn path to their American dream.Lawrence was traveling forward to forget the past. So was his family. The winding trail that followed the Platte River was a long cord that connected his and their dreams for the future, with the disappointments of the past. He was, with his parents and sister, along with a wagon train of pioneers, riding unwittingly into the chaos of a full-scale Indian uprising. Hail, arrows, bison, and bullets flrew thick and furious through the rarified air above the rolling prairie. Then a human disguised as a mud-caked, leaf-laden phantasm emerged as if from the very earth—a young woman beaten down by circumstances. She surprised many, worried some, enraged others, andchanged Lawrence. She was not what anyone expected.