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    Angels Are Everywhere: What They Are, Where They Come From, and What They Do
    Angels Are Everywhere: What They Are, Where They Come From, and What They Do
    Angels Are Everywhere: What They Are, Where They Come From, and What They Do
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    Angels Are Everywhere: What They Are, Where They Come From, and What They Do

    By Karen Romano Young and Nathan Hale

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    Angels are everywhere. They have become a fascinating part of our culture and have been widely represented in TV shows, fine art, plays, and movies.

    Packed with fun facts (including the history of "angelology" -- the study of angels), anecdotes of angel encounters, and fantastic illustrations throughout, author Karen Romano Young gives readers an in-depth look at these winged creatures and the impact they have had on our culture and everyday lives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateOct 20, 2009
    ISBN9781416997689
    Angels Are Everywhere: What They Are, Where They Come From, and What They Do
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    Karen Romano Young

    When Karen Romano Young was growing up, she and her sisters and brother spent most of their time exploring the wetlands down the road. The mill there was home to a woman who taught her about the wetlands and only once yelled at her for destroying frog eggs by stepping on them. These days the author lives near a marsh full of frogs in Bethel, Connecticut, with her husband, three children, two guinea pigs, a dog, and a cat. In Her Own Words... "My first published writing was a poem called My Secret Place. I wrote it in fourth grade, and it appeared in my local paper and in a book of 100 poems written by children in our school district. The place in the poem was a shady spot under trees, but more important was what I did there: write! "I've kept a diary since I was nine, and as a child I wrote poems and stories and lots of letters. If I wasn't writing, I was reading. Everyone around me read-to themselves, to each other, to me. My grandmother has this saying framed on her wall: "Richer than 1, you will never be, for I had a mother who read to me." I'll add to that: My mother took me to the library-the Fairfield Children's Library in Fairfield, Connecticut, where I grew up. Once I was too old to have a child's card, I even worked there, looking after the picture books and children's novels all the way through high school and even on vacations home from my school, Syracuse University. "Part of my college education was a semester in England, where I did an independent study of storytelling and folklore (especially, different versions of "Rumpelstiltskin") that took me all over the country reading and telling stories to children. At the end of college my English boyfriend, Mark Young, immigrated, and we got married in Connecticut. "My first job was writing for Scholastic's news magazines-the ones kids use in their classrooms to learn about the news and lots of other things. What a cool job: interviewing all sorts of people, doing tons of research, writing on a very short deadline. It was hard and colorful and lively and exciting, and I spent every day in New York City. I had gone to college to learn to be a teacher-but now I was hooked on writing for a living and never went back to teaching. "After our daughter Bethany was born, I decided I didn't need a New York office--or even a spot under the trees--to be able to write. I stayed home and worked in the spare bedroom. I wrote for all kinds of children's magazines, covering everything from rock climbing to rocket science. "Around the time Sam was born, I began writing nonfiction books. I've written about so many different things, but I especially love writing about people and all the different ways they live their lives: high-wire artists, Arctic scientists, a lady who tap-danced across the Golden Gate Bridge, and a man who walked all the way around the world. "When Emily was born, writing time was tight. But I had lots of time to think. During high school I had written a picture book called The Blue Volkswagen. Now I began thinking about where that old Beetle might be these days. One day I took the kids to the library. Outside, a woman was selling prints of her photographs. One of them showed an old Beetle sitting in the doorway of a barn. I bought it, took it home, and began writing a story in the twenty minutes a day I had to myself. I didn't write about my real self or about anything that had really happened to me, but I tried to think of my story as I would have felt or acted if I were Daisy living in that farmhouse at that time. After The Beetle and Me came Video, and more and more stories after that. "My husband, children, dog, cat, guinea pigs, and I have a small, noisy, weird house in the Connecticut woods. Our lives are full of books, and we all read every chance we get. I write everyplace: in the kitchen, in the car, in the barn, in the school parking lot, in the Reading Room at the New York Public Library, at the beach. I write and write and write...."

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      Angels Are Everywhere - Karen Romano Young

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      Angel Lore

      HOW DO WE KNOW ABOUT ANGELS?

      Where do we get our ideas about angels? From stories, and from histories. From books that are sacred (written or dictated by God), possibly sacred, and not sacred.

      For a long, long time, people kept track of their histories and stories by word of mouth. These oral traditions (stories told anytime two or more people were together) became part of the books that form the centers of the big four Western religions: Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam.

      MAJOR MESSAGE: Each of the holy books of the big four Western religions includes stories in which angels were sent by God to humans. These are the start of people’s understanding of what angels do. But it isn’t necessarily the start of angels, which may have roots in folklore, traditions, and stories that came before the holy books.

      The holy book stories told of beings that traveled by flying. How would you describe something you’d never seen before, without comparing it to something else—a bird, a kite, a plane, a spaceship? Which comparison would be most appropriate? Lots of people who have studied the idea of angels think that their image came not just from the holy books, but from stories that were told in different cultures.

      The scriptures are works believed to definitely have been written by God (through an angel), or by writers who were directed by God. (This kind of writer is called a prophet.) Some other books were written by people who might have been angels or prophets, or might not. These books are called apocrypha. One of the most famous apocryphal writers, Enoch, wrote at about the same time that the early Bible was written. He describes his dramatic and glorious visit to the center of heaven, where God is found. Enoch’s stories aren’t scripture, so many people argue about whether they were true. Along with other apocrypha, Enoch’s writings have been used by people researching angels all through history, even if the rabbis, priests, and imams said they are not God’s word.

      THE JEWISH ANGELS

      Angels are mentioned 103 times in the Tanakh, the Bible of the Jews, which includes the five books of Moses (the Torah), the books of the Prophets (Nevi’im), and the writings (Kethuvim), including the psalms. Powerful, physical, and fierce angels appear to do God’s will. They strike down armies, visit with humans, even challenge a man to a

      ANGELIC IDEA

      In a room full of people, talk suddenly halts. To fill the awkward moment, somebody might say, An angel is walking through the room.

      wrestling match. Angels talk with Yahweh’s (God’s) prophets, including David, Elias, Daniel, and Zacharias.

      SHE HEARD AN ANGEL

      Fifteenth century

      In 1425 Joan of Arc, age thirteen, began to hear the voices of two saints and the archangel Michael, who inspired her to put on armor and lead the army of France against the English. At nineteen she was burned at the stake, condemned as a witch and a heretic (someone who lies about God).

      Today, Jews believe in angels as guardians, messengers, and intermediaries, beings with the ability to take people’s concerns and prayers to God.

      There are now close to fourteen million Jews in the world.² The other three major religions are also based on one supreme being—Ahura Mazda, God, or Allah. Stories in

      THE FOUR MAJOR WESTERN RELIGIONS

      their holy books—the Avesta, the Bible, the Qu’ran—show God acting to create the world, to send the great flood, to send laws, to send angels.

      THE ZOROASTRIAN ANGELS

      Zoroaster, or Zarathustra, lived between 1000 and 600 B.C. in Bactria (in the area of what is now northern Afghanistan). Before Zoroaster, people worshiped many different beings, such as gods and goddesses, who ruled the sun, the moon, music, health, and so on. But Zoroaster changed the pattern of religion in his part of the world: He said there was only one God.

      In Zoroastrianism, the one god, the wise Lord, is Ahura Mazda. But Ahura Mazda has help: angels. Early Zoroastrian stories of the seven archangels closely followed those told of the old Babylonian and Assyrian gods, and Judaic and Christian stories adapted bits of these stories into their own traditions.

      There are now about three million Zoroastrians in the world.

      NAMES FOR ANGELS

      THE CHRISTIAN ANGELS

      Besides the many angel stories in the Old Testament of the Bible, Christians follow the teachings of the New Testament, in which angels are mentioned on nearly every page. Jesus spoke of them fifteen times, telling about their activities and their lives in heaven.

      Angels were with Jesus to guide, guard, and encourage him when he was being tempted by Satan in the desert. Angels announced Jesus’s birth, helped him face Satan, and announced his resurrection. They even rolled the stone away from his tomb so he could get out.

      ANGELS IN YOUR LIFE

      Here’s an idea: Just for one day, keep your eyes open for angels. You’ll be surprised how often they come up in conversation (She’s his guardian angel. He’s a perfect angel.), in stores (everything from angel food cake to lapel-pin angels and magnets that say Teachers Are Angels), in music (one expert says that one in ten pop songs mentions angels), on clothes, stationery, stained-glass windows, TV commercials, and much, much

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