Saint Bernadette and the Miracles of Lourdes

This is a beautiful story of St. Bernadette. I am buying the book to read to my 5 year old granddaughter, who built a Grotto of Lourdes for her first homeschool art project. This book will be a nice accompaniment to that project.The book itself is beautiful: the cover design, the colorful graphics and the heavy, gloss pages. This will be a nice addition to her already plentiful library!

This is a beautiful book with colorful illustrations and a nice story. My son has been so interested in Our Lady of Lourdes and St Bernadette ever since receiving this book. He loves it and will sit and read through and stare at the pictures (he's 6), and loves the story. Highly recommend.

This is a really interesting book and I wanted to add it to my second grade Saints block, but the brown textured busy background behind some of the pages makes the black print incredibly hard to read. I wouldn't suggest giving this to a child to read alone since, sadly, it will be a frustrating experience.

Bought this for my 6 and 8 year old granddaughters., as per the recommendation from my other 5 year old granddaughter. They all really like it.

Saint Bernadette and the Miracles of Lourdes is a children's book written and illustrated by Demi. The book begins by speaking of a miller and his wife, named Francois and Louise Soubirous. Their first child was a girl named Bernadette. Louise had an accident shortly thereafter and another woman had to care for Bernadette. Soon she had a sister named Toinette. When Bernadette was ten, her family lost their mill and Bernadette had to go live and work with the woman who cared for her. Bernadette was a shepherdess for this woman. It was this profession that would eventually change her life, as it was during this time that her devotion to the Rosary grew. One day Our Lady appeared to her in an apparition. No one believed her for the longest time despite the miracles. Bernadette was even threatened with jail time if she kept going back to the grotto where she saw Mary, but Bernadette's faith was strong. Today, Bernadette is a saint and that grotto, Lourdes, is a Catholic shrine that greets six million visitors annually. The book tells the story beautifully, making sure not to miss a single detail, and this story is vividly captured in a unique illustration style that keeps drawing your eye from page-to-page. This is an excellent book to introduce your children to St. Bernadette and Our Lady of Lourdes.

It was lovely! Demi shines again. The story was told and did justice to the truth and faith of it. I was on my guard against secular takes on religious figures but nothing crazy came through and the Immaculate Conception was shown and spoken of with reverence. I mean... Mary is blonde in this book... but not in a Barbie way... haha!

Beautiful pictures