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    Angel Unaware: A Touching Story of Love and Loss
    Angel Unaware: A Touching Story of Love and Loss
    Angel Unaware: A Touching Story of Love and Loss
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    Angel Unaware: A Touching Story of Love and Loss

    By Dale Evans and Norman Peale

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    Entertainers Roy and Dale Evans Rogers were thrilled when their little daughter Robin was born. But their excitement turned to concern when they were informed that Robin was born with Down's Syndrome and advised to "put her away." The Rogers ignored such talk and instead kept Robin, and she graced their home for two and a half years. Though Robin's time on earth was short, she changed her parents' lives and even made life better for other children born with special needs in the years to come.
    Angel Unaware is Robin's account of her life as she looks down from heaven. As she speaks to God about the mission of love she just completed on earth, the reader sees how she brought her parents closer to God and encouraged them to help other children in need.
    This book, which changed the way America treated children with special needs, is now available to a new generation. It is the perfect gift for parents of special needs children, parents grieving the death of a child, or anyone whose life has been touched by a special child.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateFeb 1, 2004
    ISBN9781585581351
    Angel Unaware: A Touching Story of Love and Loss
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    Dale Evans

    Dale Evans (1912-2001) , the wife of Roy Rogers and the mother of nine children, was a singer-songwriter, actress, speaker, and author of twenty-five books, including Revell's bestselling classic Angel Unaware. She worked tirelessly with charities for abused and mentally handicapped children.

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    • 5/5
      I liked the way this book was written. The story was told from the perspective of a baby that had died and was in Heaven. This story will break you heart. The Rogers family did a wonderful thing by choosing to love this little girl, and in the process they changed the lives of many others. A short quick read that packs a Huge punch!!
    • 5/5
      inspirational, actors, adversity, alternatively-abled I first read this book long before I went into nursing, and believe that it still has great value today. While we have made great strides in repairing many congenital heart defects, and in immunization, there are still problems in giving some children the best education for the individual. And some people continue to fail in recognizing the incredible value of people who are alternatively abled. This is a marvelous book for parents and others who need reassurance.

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    • 4/5
      A short little book ostensibly written in the voice of little 2 year old Robin Rogers, who was born to cowboy movie stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Robin was born with multiple birth defects, hard to decipher from this book, as the problem is just mentioned as "mongoloidism" - probably Downs Syndrome with other associated problems. Robin is telling the story of her short life, and the affect it had on her parents' Christianity, to a loving God. The writing is a bit too sacchrine for my taste, but I'm sure it helped Dale with her profound grief.

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    Angel Unaware - Dale Evans

    © 1953, 1981 by Dale Evans Rogers

    Published by Revell

    a division of Baker Publishing Group

    P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

    www.revellbooks.com

    Fiftieth Anniversary Edition published in 2004

    Ebook edition created 2013

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

    ISBN 978-1-58558-135-1

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

    Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture is taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

    The song There’ll Be Peace in the Valley is copyright © 1939 by Hill & Range Songs, Inc. Copyright Renewed, assigned to Unichappell Music, Inc. (Rightsong Music, Publisher). International Copyright Secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

    Table of Contents

    Cover

    Title Page

    Copyright

    Foreword

    Preface

    Angel Unaware

    Foreword

    By Norman Vincent Peale

    My daughter Elizabeth and I had been all-out fans of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans long before we knew them as personal friends. We loved their movie and TV adventures, but that wasn’t all; we sensed something fine and wholesome in what they said and did, in their dynamic personalities, in the radiant joy and lovable humility that is so much a part of them.

    Then they started coming to New York for their rodeo in Madison Square Garden, and every Sunday morning I saw them in my congregation at Marble Collegiate Church. We returned the compliment by attending the rodeo. We were thrilled as they raced about the arena and as Roy sang Peace in the Valley—a song that is half ballad and half hymn. But we were moved deeply when he said to the youngsters in his congregation, I hear some kid says it is sissy stuff to go to Sunday school. Don’t you believe him. Sunday school is for he-men. The awe with which the children accepted this convinced me that cowboys are often more effective preachers than the preachers themselves.

    Their business is entertainment; their purpose is to speak for God in their daily work. By their words, their kindliness, their uprightness, and their love of people, they turn the minds of everyone they meet to God—a rare and beautiful accomplishment in our kind of world!

    Dale Evans does just that in this little book. She is a mother who has won great victory over great sorrow. When she first told me the story you will read here, I realized that I was hearing of an amazing experience and standing in the presence of a great soul. I saw at once that Robin, her baby, had not lived and died in vain. Where most babies die and leave the mother crushed, Robin put on immortality and her mother found the very joy of God in what might otherwise have been an overwhelming tragedy.

    The sweetness, the touching humor, and spiritual understanding with which little Robin Rogers talks with God in this book will comfort and strengthen all who read it, as they did me when I read the manuscript—through misty eyes.

    This is one book I’ll never forget.

    Norman Vincent Peale, 1953

    Preface

    When I was in high school I dreamed of being a writer, as English, Grammar, and Composition were my favorite subjects. Little did I realize that my writing career would be forged

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