LONGWOOD, FL-Meet Yayla, a fun-loving Israeli girl who is seeking truth about God and her people. Through a series of exciting adventures, she learns to come to a meaningful relationship with her parents and God. Yayla (paperback, 978-1-60034-893-8; hardcover, 978-1-60034-894-5), a fictional story by the mother-daughter team of Karen and Patti Buchanan, provides some understanding of the early history of Israel as the tribes settled the land of Canaan and sought to understand the prophecies, symbols, and festivals God had given them through Moses. As Christians today become more aware of their Jewish heritage and the importance of Israel, they require biblical guidance on Jewish tradition.
Say the authors, "There are five major themes in this book: Healthy, respectful interpersonal relationships between children and adults, work ethics and accountability for using ones talents wisely and to the best of one's ability, understanding a little of Israeli culture and the festivals celebrated in Israel, God's amazing plan of salvation and how it was portrayed in the Mosaic sacrificial system, [and] God's loving-care of His people and his desire to communicate and bless each of us personally. As readers identify with the positive character traits of Yayla and her parents, they effortlessly inculcate these positive attributes into their own value system."
The Christian principles contained within represent a mode of life the Buchanans have patterned their own mother daughter relationship after. Passionate about helping children and adults enjoy healthy, happy, loving, respectful relationships, the duo has set out to prove that freedom to make good choices fosters and protects each person's ability to excel, allowing people to become all God created them to be.
Explain the authors, "These exciting, fun-to-read stories teach that salvation is a free gift to all who will accept it. Yayla gives a young girl the dignity of thinking and choosing and doing for herself. Too often adults do not allow or even listen to children who are trying to make good choices."
Patti Buchanan has spent a lifetime working with children as parent, grandparent, teacher, and counselor. She received her master's degree from Stanford University. As a single mother she raised four successful children, taught chemistry and physics in high school, and competed in ballroom dancing for ten years. Patti has traveled much of the world, mountaineered on three continents, taught English to Vietnamese refugees in Thailand, worked with the untouchables in India, and much more. Buchanan is Patti's daughter. She is a certified attorney of the state of California. Karen has spent the last three years in Israel working for peace. She assisted in the establishment of seventy kindergartens in the most dangerous Arabic neighborhoods in northern Israel.
Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation, is the world's largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,900 titles published to date. Retailers may order Yayla through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. Salem Communications is the country's leading Christian communications company with interests in radio, Internet, and magazine publishing.
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2007