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    The Beauty Book
    The Beauty Book
    The Beauty Book
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    The Beauty Book

    By Nancy N. Rue

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    Learn with Lily and her friends just what it means to be beautiful in God’s eyes—inside and out!

    In a society so focused on the idea that external beauty reigns supreme, it can be difficult for young girls to figure out what “true” beauty is all about. This unique and creative book for girls ages 7–11 answers the common questions girls ask during this often confusing and overwhelming stage in their lives in an inviting and conversational manner.

    Filled with fun quizzes, imaginative activities, and cool illustrations, The Beauty Book offers cool, relevant information about everything from great hair styles to tattoos, from skin care to clothes, and much more. Above all, the message that God-confidence is beautiful is highlighted on each and every page.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9781400320554
    The Beauty Book
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    Nancy N. Rue

    Nancy Rue has written over 100 books for girls, is the editor of the Faithgirlz Bible, and is a popular speaker and radio guest with her expertise in tween and teen issues. She and husband, Jim, have raised a daughter of their own and now live in Tennessee.

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    • 4/5
      After reading Here's Lilly by Nancy Rue, I can honestly say that The Beauty Book by Nancy Rue is a great companion book. The book is full of fun and thoughtful quizzes, activities, Q & A and checklists give great advice, and entertaining facts for girls of all ages. There are great ways to take care of your skin and hair, to what to name your fingers and toes. This book is full of fun and entertaining ways for girls to keep themselves healthy, while encouraging them to look and be their best. This is a great book for girls who love the Lilly Series by Nancy Rue.

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    • 4/5
      This is a very good book for preteenage girls. It teaches them how to look at themselves positively and that their perfect the way they are. It helped me get through those hard stages of life and what true beauty is all about.

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    The Beauty Book - Nancy N. Rue

    The Beauty Book

    Other Books Available in The Lily Series

    Fiction

    Here’s Lily!

    Lily Robbins, MD (Medical Dabbler)—coming soon!

    Nonfiction

    The Body Book—coming soon!

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    The Beauty Book

    © 2012 Nancy Rue

    Published in association with the literary agency of Alive

    Communications, Inc., 7680 Goddard Street, Suite 200, Colorado Springs,

    CO 80920. www.alivecommunications.com

    All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

    Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Tommy Nelson®. Tommy Nelson is a registered trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

    Thomas Nelson, Inc., titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.

    Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are taken from HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®. © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

    Scripture quotations marked MSG are taken from The Message by Eugene H. Peterson. © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. All rights reserved.

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Rue, Nancy N.

       The beauty book / Nancy Rue.

         p . cm. -- (The Lily series)

       ISBN 978-1-4003-1948-0 (pbk.)

    1. Girls--Religious life--Juvenile literature. 2. Beauty, Personal--Religious aspects--Christianity--Juvenile literature. 3. Body, Human--Religious aspects--Christianity--Juvenile literature. 4. Self-perception in children--Juvenile literature.. 5. Self-perception--Religious aspects--Christianity--Juvenile literature. I. Title.

       BV4551.3.R83 2012

       248.8’2--dc23

    2012004688

    Printed in the United States of America

    12 13 14 15 16 QG 6 5 4 3 2 1

    www.thomasnelson.com

    Contents

    One: You Gotta Love It

    Two: Heads Up!

    Three: The Skinny on Skin

    Four: Hands ’n’ Feet

    Five: When Beauty Gets Hairy

    Six: Clothesline

    Seven: Don’t Trash Your Temple!

    Eight: What If I Have to Put Up with . . . ?

    Nine: You Go, Girl!

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    One

    You Gotta Love It

    LORD, you are our Father.

    We are the clay, you are the potter;

    we are all the work of your hand.

    ISAIAH 64:8

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    You Gotta Love It

    Okay, let’s get one fact straight right up front: every girl has her own special beauty.

    Yeah, I know you’ve heard your mom say, "Well, I think you’re beautiful, honey. I also know that doesn’t mean a whole bunch when some kid’s calling you Pizza Face or everybody’s telling your sister she’s drop-dead gorgeous and then patting you on the head and saying, You’re cute too, honey."

    But really, God doesn’t make junk. He made each of us just exactly the way He intends us to be. So just like everything else God made—from blackberries to rhinoceroses—you gotta love it. You gotta love you too.

    "Yeah," you may ask, but if every girl is beautiful, how come everybody" isn’t seeing it that way?"

    Because—bummer!—people aren’t like God. Somewhere along the way, since the whole Adam and Eve thing, somebody decided there was only one way to be a beautiful woman at any given time. Right now that standard is being five foot ten, weighing about a hundred pounds, and having lips as big as the living room couch.

    So how are you supposed to convince everybody that you’re this knockout even though God shaped you like a fire hydrant or gave you lips the width of a pencil line or gave you curves nobody else has at ten?

    You can’t. You only need to convince you, and that’s what this book is about. By the time you get to the end, I want you to be able to check yourself out when you pass a store window and say, That’s me. Cool! And I love that!

    Here’s a good way to start. From now until you finish reading this book, try to follow this rule: NO BADMOUTHING THE WAY YOU LOOK.

    That means no dwelling on the zits that have appeared on your forehead. No talking about how fat you think you are. No wishing you had curlier hair (or smaller ears or straighter teeth). Pretend you are one of your friends. You would rather eat brussels sprouts than hurt a friend’s feelings, right? So NO putting your friend—you!—down.

    That’s a really hard rule to follow, so let’s look at some of the things that can keep you from seeing how gorgeous you are.

    BEAUTY BLOCKER #1: T V TRAINING

    One of the reasons people think there’s only one way to be beautiful is because that’s all they see on television and in magazines and movies and on the Internet. Even the Barbie dolls seem to scream, You have to look like me! But you don’t.

    GIRLZ Want to Know

    a4 LILY: Those girls on the cover of Seventeen have perfect skin. How do they get that?

    They don’t. Nobody’s skin is that perfect. Everybody has at least the occasional zit, freckle, or scar from when she crashed her bike. Those magazine photos are retouched with computer programs and digital editing software that can remove blemishes (why don’t they just call them pimples?), make eyelashes longer, and even chisel in great cheekbones. If you met those models in person, you would see that they have pimples, birthmarks, and little scars too. No lie.

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    a4 ZOOEY: If I use the shampoos and face creams I see in the ads, will I look the way the models do?

    Probably not. For starters, that model isn’t you. And don’t you think if a company wants to sell a product that’s supposed to give you thick, shiny hair, they’re going to pick a model who already has that thick, shiny hair? Besides, if you were born with thin hair, there isn’t much in this world that’s going to make it thick. But who

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