{"id":35986,"date":"2025-07-09T17:18:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T23:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=35986"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T14:03:51","slug":"elisabeths-miracle-by-vanessa-siso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=35986","title":{"rendered":"Elisabeth’s Miracle by Vanessa Siso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Whimsical, heartfelt, and faith-filled…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siso weaves scripture and real-life emotion into a tender story about embracing what makes us unique. Elisabeth loves her sock puppets and the pretend worlds she creates with her best friend, Samuel. But when a puppet falls from her backpack at school, classmates tease her. \u201cAren\u2019t you a little too old for that?\u201d one sneers. Samuel, afraid of being laughed at too, joins in. Elisabeth runs home in tears, ashamed and alone. Will she ever get over her heartache?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siso\u2019s prose is simple yet emotionally resonant, and the message is one that children and adults alike can carry: our quirks and differences, when offered in love, can be used for good. The story\u2019s turning point\u2014Elisabeth\u2019s quiet conversation with her father\u2014is handled with restraint. His response isn\u2019t prescriptive but relational. \u201cEven the things that make you feel different are not wrong,\u201d he tells her, connecting faith to affirmation rather than correction. The artwork is lively and expressive, and the included activity guide transforms the book into an engaging, hands-on experience that helps children explore big feelings through play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A warm hug of a book for anyone who\u2019s ever felt a little left out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date April 24, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FriesenPress<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 978-1038324610<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $21.99 (USD) Hardcover, $18.32 Paperback, $4.99 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whimsical, heartfelt, and faith-filled… Siso weaves scripture and real-life emotion into a tender story about embracing what makes us unique. Elisabeth loves her sock puppets and the pretend worlds she creates with her best friend, Samuel. But when a puppet falls from her backpack at school, classmates tease her. \u201cAren\u2019t you a little too old for that?\u201d one sneers. Samuel, afraid of being laughed at too, joins in. Elisabeth runs home in tears, ashamed and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":37007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7223,91,3328,178,706279332,723771019,723771018,723771021,1136176,1473,1008073,856121,309,723771020,349],"class_list":["post-35986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-author","tag-blogging","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-childrens-pcture-books","tag-childrens-christian-books-books","tag-childrens-friendship-books","tag-elisabeths-miracle","tag-indie-books","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-vanessa-siso","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-9mq","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/elizabeth.jpg?fit=342%2C264&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37008,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35986\/revisions\/37008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}