Author
Simonetta Carr was born in Italy and has lived and worked in different cultures. A former elementary school teacher, she has home-schooled her eight children for many years. She has written for newspapers and magazines around the world and has translated the works of several Christian authors into Italian. Presently, she lives in San Diego with her husband, Thomas, and family. She is a member and Sunday school teacher at Christ United Reformed Church.
Illustrator
Matt Abraxas has traveled from California to France, studying different approaches to art. He enjoys creating and teaching art and currently exhibits his work at the SmithKlein Gallery in Boulder, Colorado. Matt lives with his wife, Rebecca, and two sons, Zorba and Rainer, in Lafayette, Colorado.
"Anselm, one of the most original thinkers of the medieval West,
lived in a world that is in many ways very different from ours. Yet
many of Anselm's solutions to those timeless problems of how to
deal with other people and how to speak about God are fresh even
today, nine hundred years after he lived. Simonetta's book is a
very fine introduction for children to Anselm, his world, and his
role in it." -- Dr. Samu Niskanen, research fellow in history at
Helsinki University and author of a new critical edition of
Anselm's correspondence
"It's delightful to see that an increasing number of Christian
authors are bringing strong Christians in history to life in short
biographies for young people. This short biography of Anselm of
Canterbury is a good example of this wonderful trend. Young readers
will become familiar with a man whom sadly few have ever heard of
but who should be remembered for his witness of God's work." -- Tom
Garfield, superintendent, Logos School, Moscow, Idaho
"Simonetta Carr has again rendered a great service to lovers of
church history and, perhaps even more, to those not yet captivated
by that love. In her sixth biography for young readers, adults and
youth alike will rediscover godly Anselm, a man rarely heard of
today but whom readers will be pleased to get to know. With her
usual grace, Carr fascinates us with her subject, making the reader
yearn to know more. Though Anselm lived in times and church
settings vastly different from our own, this delightful recounting
of his story reveals to us a man facing trials and pressures we can
identify with in his fervent pursuit of God. Filled with their
trademark beautiful artwork, this set is rapidly becoming one of
the finest collections on the characters of church history to be
published in many decades. Well done, Simonetta! I cannot recommend
these volumes highly enough." -- Dennis Gundersen, president and
owner of Grace and Truth Books and author of Your Child's
Profession of Faith
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