Anna's Amazing Journey is the perfect companion to a study of geography in the 3rd-5th grade classroom. 2nd grade classrooms have also enjoyed this book after finishing a unit on writing their own books. The custom-made world map on the final page of Anna's Amazing Journey, really helps kids place the location of the countries they've just been introduced to in the story.

A precious follow-up to "Mister God, This is Anna", also by Fynn. Actual notes by Anna, edited by Fynn, reflecting her child's view and feelings about "Mummy", love, tears, giving, God, and herself. The deep insights and keen perceptions of this unusual girl from age 4 to 7, reveal a rare gift of wisdom, and the wonder and pure joy of living which few children are able to express. Anna's images are rapturously poetic, as when she describes Mummy's kiss: smooth as a duck's tummy, cool as the grass, and soft as a spider's web. Her sweet purity washes away adult sophistication and brings memories of our own child within. She explains how crying is good because it is like washing the windows so you can see better. She tells how an angel took her up a rainbow to a place where she learned an important lesson and had a good laugh, then he let her slide down the rainbow back into her room. "Anna's Book" affirms the good, simple truths of life. You'll want your own and one or more to give away -- I did. And if you haven't read "Mister God, This is Anna", you'll want to.

As a friend of the family who lived the story of this book as it happened, I'd be a fool to deny my bias as I clicked the 5-star rating button. But I think I'd be doing a greater disservice by not endorsing this precious nugget of publishing as enthusiastically as possible. It would be a shame to categorize Anna's Friends as merely a diary of a family tragedy, though its style and topic could surely lead one to do so. Instead, I consider it a lesson in how life should be lived and what we can learn from the challenges it presents us. John and Kathleen write honestly and clearly, with love, compassion, confusion, sadness and joy. And to understand that this isn't a retrospective look at their ordeal, but an honest and revealing day to day accounting of what it took for them to reconcile and deal with the terminal illness of their baby daughter makes the clarity of their writing and thinking even more remarkable. I treasure the relationship I had with Anna and am proud to be considered one of her friends. I'm even more touched that John and Kathleen would have the courage and faith to publish this important and universally touching tribute to not only their daughter, but the beauty of life and love. We can all take comfort in knowing that books, and people, like this exist.

What a lovely book! The pictures are detailed, accurate and entrancing, and the poems are amusing and show a deep love for gardening and family. Anna, her brother Peter, her friends and her Grandfather have all sorts of fun in the garden and orchard. Usually, each page describes a specific vegetable. My daughter loves the entry on cabbages -- especially Grandfather's rampage on the caterpillars that eat them. "He yelled so loud, he scared the cat!" Read the poems, enjoy the pictures, then go out in the garden and see how they compare to real life. This book is a great way to get little children interested in gardening (we've been borrowing it from the library since my daughter was two, and I'm so glad to see Amazon has it so we can get a copy to keep), and parents won't get bored with it either. The more we read it, the more we love it. Try it out yourself!

"Anna's Gift" is a great historical fiction book. I loved it death. The characters are real people, and you can relate to them. The plot is believable and it takes real events from Church history. I laughed, I cried, I cheered, and I can bet you will too. This book is usually for younger readers, but anyone at any age, especially girls, will find a place for this book (and others in the series) in their heart. I guarantee that this book is worth your money.

"Anna's Special Present" has been my favorite book since i was little. I remember wanting to read it all of the time. I think at one point i had most of it memorized. This book teaches you that as much as you don't get along with your brothers or sisters, you really do love them, no matter what. I have learned that from personal experiance.
It all starts when Anna and her sister Katy are fighting over Emily, Anna's favorite doll. Katy is always stealing it from Anna because she likes it just as much as her sister does. But then, Katy gets very sick and has to go into the hospital. Anna is very upset and scaired for her sister. She tries to think of a way to help her sister feel better. Anna comes up with the perfect way to do that. Read this story and find out about the love, hate, and events that change the characters forever.

I wish there were more books like this that inform teens and their parents of the dangers of different substances! And it's even more important that it's true because it touches my heart even more! Although i didn't know anna, i wish i did! I can relate her story to my life so accurately! My life is so much the same as hers! What a champ she is! I wish i could've met her! Love forever Becky

Anna is the bourgeoise wife of a Danish diplomat stationed in Karachi, when for untold reasons, she suffers a nervous breakdown and is sent back to her homeland in Copenhagen for treatment. While on the plane, she decides to bolt, and takes off with a prisoner who faces certain incarceration. Thus Anna is catapulted into her personal and pyschological journey to discover who she is while risking it all in a desperate and often humerous adventure. This novel was originally written for radio in Denmark, and each chapter has the feel of a weekly installment. It has the pace of a radio play, full of both personal insight and thrilling action, and each chapter ends with a sometimes breathtaking cliffhanger. It is also a picaresque novel; the story takes Anna and her outlaw through Europe, being harbored by a variety of strange and interesting characters in exotic locales, including a traveling circus. Through these adventures she is constantly aware of the impossibility of this new existence, and the encroaching fact that people are looking for her. But it's on the road where Anna is desperate to discover the reasons behind her psychological breakdown; she must counter the repellent and repeated impulse she had to murder her beloved daughter Minna. Anna's journey is one which many can relate to, in the choices we make that can sometimes go against our spirits, and the consequences of leading a life untrue to one's heart. Not many of us have the chance to cash in our moral core for seductive prizes such as the superstardom of musicians or celebrities. This is the very ordinary tale of the everyday sell-out, the person who bargains her true self for an unexceptional and moreoften, ponderous prize. Anna's story comes to a dazzling close, one that will bring you, immediately with her, to the brink of desperation and discovery. And the realization of the bravery and upheaval which are necessary if one is to undo the heavy trappings of a false life.

Now, if only I could find the other two in the series! This book has me hooked on Fynn's tales of little Anna and the gang. One gets a sense of the location because you read the words just as they were said; you can almost imagine a little girl's voice speaking sometimes...

Anna Paterson's life story shows the struggles that eating disorder sufferers go through. It is a book about how she dealt with her childhood abuse and how she developed severe life threatening anorexia.

However, despite being harrowing in places, it is hopeful and finally uplifting. As with all her books, Ms Paterson shows the reader that there is a way out and leaves them with real hope. Highly recommended.