The Healing Circle, a picture book for ages 2 to 8, encourages faith in God for wholeness and healing, for both children and the adults who read to them. Years ago, the author, Mountainbird, was inspired by a dedicated pastor and weekly prayer meeting in Amherst, Massachusetts to write the original story poem. God's abundant promises unfold through words and images of people and angels of diverse ages, races, and cultures. Hopefully, your joyful response will echo one reader's, "I want to be in that Healing Circle!" With delightful illustrations, the artist, Gina Hagen, enlivens The Healing Circle's portrayal of heaven's timeless collaboration with the earth. Gina's talent for communicating love through her drawings distinguishes her art held in numerous private collections throughout the United States, Europe, South Africa and Japan. While Mountainbird has written numerous educational and news articles, poems and short stories, The Healing Circle is her first fiction book for children. Her previous book for adults and young adults, Lookin' Up in Down Times, also inspires hope and healing through true adventures from around the globe.
Hagen, Gina: - Gina Hagen is a watercolorist, jewelry designer, and musician. Her watercolors are held in private collections throughout the United States, Europe, South Africa, and Japan. Frequently commissioned, her work has also been exhibited in Europe, Los Angeles, and throughout New England. As a Jimmy Fund Artist, for many years, Hagen has exhibited her artwork to raise funds for cancer care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston MA. Her artwork: www.hagengallery.com Jewelry: www.Etsy.com/Shop/GraceGalleryDesign Esteemed for communicating love through her drawings, Gina Hagan's watercolors are held in numerous private collections throughout the United States, Europe, South Africa, and Japan. As a Jimmy Fund artist for several years, her artwork has raised money for cancer research and care. While The Healing Circle marks her second venture as a children's book illustrator, Gina is a professional who has worked in the publishing business for years, while her beautiful watercolors have illustrated numerous textbook covers. Multi-talented, Gina also directs Christian children's choirs and designs jewelry. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Bob, and son, David.
Mountainbird: - The author, Mountainbird, AKA Dr Pauline Mountainbird, EDD, loves God, angels, prayer, children, and children's books. She earnestly hopes children and adults will share this story poem, as an act of love and connection. Mountainbird encourages readers in their faith that healing and miracles are promises from heaven that are still available today. Dr. Mountainbird is a licensed Minister of the Gospel, who (as a former professor of education) taught English, Children's Literature, Reading, Writing, and English as a Second Language. From their infancy, Mountainbird read to her three sons, Anthony, Demetrius and Nicholas. Now that her three sons are grown, Mountainbird lives in North Carolina, where she enjoys faith, family and friends as well as writing, pottery, gardening and strolling by the ocean. The Healing Circle is a culmination of these wonderful experiences. Mountainbird's first book, Lookin' Up in Down Times: Stars Shine Bright on a Moonless Night, also inspires hope and faith. Written for youth and adults, Lookin' Up in Down Times is a series of true to life adventures that take place all around the globe. She loves hearing from you, so email her at LookinupwithMountainbird@gmail.com or go to her website: www.LookinUpWithMountainbird.com.
