Drawing on oral histories, diaries, letters, photographs, and archival records, the author presents a look at the lives of the children who lived and died during the Holocaust

The Star Child, a tiny flame of vapor, invisible and timeless, watches the Earth from far, far away. He marvels at the blue swirls of the ocean and the green land, a bright spot turning through the darkness of space. He wants to go to this wondrous place, but he ponders: What will that life be like? "You will be plunged into Earth's river of time," his elders tell the Star Child. "There will be so much for you to learn and so much for you to feel—pleasure and fear, joy and disappointment, sadness and wonder." Through spare, artful text and intricate illustrations, Claire A. Nivola celebrates the cycle of life. A Frances Foster Book

Shelley Vecchitto’s life has led her to working with people around the world by facilitating groups and helping seekers fulfill their highest purpose. Her gifts allow her to provide a bridge of understanding to those pursuing deep connection with their soul expression in this life, and that connection allowed Shelley to discover a truth of her own. Star Children offers a radical rethinking of the nature of children commonly considered troubled or ill, providing a refreshingly positive, spiritually-oriented perspective on the unconventional. Find out why Star Children are coming to earth, as well as the hidden messages behind miscarriage, childhood illness, and accidental death. This book is also a guide to self-knowledge and spiritual development for the friends, parents, and caretakers of Star Children, offering advice on how to nurture them. Learn to understand the Star Child you love while realizing that you, too, are a special Star Child. Exercises throughout the text offer ways to explore the material and incorporate it into your life, while Shelley’s warm enthusiam encourages us all to break free from old limitations and discover inner strengths and abilities.

Based on many oral histories taken from child survivors of the Holocaust, the author focuses on the experiences of young Jewish children from their earliest encounters with anti-Semitism to their enslavement in labor camps.

Star children are children who have been sent here from all areas of the universe to help the earth and the people on it. They possess psychic, spiritual, and other extra sensory abilities. These children will bring peace, topple corrupt systems, and shift dimensional consciousness in the years to come. They have come here on special assignment to assist in this rebirth into a higher dimensional Earth. Since the beginning of time, parents have wished their kids came with an owner's manual. Big changes are coming as this is a new world, a new energy grid, and the children of the stars, or Star children as we call them, have finally arrived to help save the earth with no owner's manual. This book is a guide to help parents understand their Star children and to help each parent spiritually understand what is happening with these gifted youngsters who are here to help us. Yes, your children can be your spiritual advisors and they are here to help us. They will try to teach us many lessons. Most we won't understand, some we won't even know are lessons. With the help of this guide, a few of us may catch on. Valuable for educators to become aware that they are dealing with an entirely new generation of children who do not think or behave like those who have gone before them. This book is also intended to help our younger or older Star children understand and not be afraid of what they are seeing or hearing that many others cannot see or hear. Topics: Indigo to Crystal to Rainbow Transitions; Environmental Stress and Your Star Child; The Importance of healthy Food; The Nine Dimensions of Consciousness; A Global Crisis: Help Is On the Way.

Shirley Temple-Black, the popular child star of the 1930s and 1940s, tells of the ups and downs of life as a Hollywood prodigy. She writes of her relationship with her parents, how her finances were controlled, two attempts on her life, her first marriage at 17 and her second, happier marriage to Charlie Black.

A Blackfoot Indian legend that explains how the Plains Indians received the sacred knowledge of the Sun Dance.