Description

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For the first time, the life of Blessed Chiara Badano is narrated for a young audience, with beautiful illustrations showing the key moments of her spiritual journey. Everyone wants to be happy, but very few people learn the secrets to happiness. Chiara Badano discovered those secrets at a young age, and lived them every day. Even when she was stricken with illness, those simple secrets kept her happy, and made her happiness contagious. Chiara Badano's legacy lives on and has spread throughout the world, inspiring young and old to learn her secrets and to put them into practice. Counted among the blessed, she can show us how to be happy, and how to make others happy, too.

About the Author

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Geraldine Guadagno enjoys writing in a variety of genres for children and adults. Her books include Irene the Elephant, 5 Steps to Facing Suffering, and John of the Smiles. Loretta Rauschuber's creativity started when she was 15 with scenic oil on canvas artwork. Blessed Chiara Badano is her second book of illustrations to be published.