Eli’s Quiet Friend by Sr. Allison Regina Gliot is a lovely picture book for young children. Eli is a young boy on the autism spectrum who finds the world very noisy, but his grandmother takes him to spend some quiet time with Jesus in adoration. This winner of the 2025 Excellence in Publishing Award in Picture Books from the Association of Catholic Publishers will help teach children how to find the peace of God’s presence in adoration and build understanding and empathy for those with autism.

About the Author

Sr. Allison Regina Gliot FSP (@sister_allison) has always loved reading and telling stories (the more fantastical the better). She fell in love with Jesus in college and became a Daughter of St. Paul after graduation to spend the rest of her life with him. Since then, she’s had many adventures, the most recent of which involves serving as an editor for Pauline Books & Media, the publishing house of the Daughters of St. Paul. She spends her free time writing books and looking for lizards in the convent backyard. She is the author of The Book That Changed Everything, dubbed a 2025 “Backlist Beauty” by the Catholic Media Association; Eli’s Quiet Friend, winner of the 2025 Excellence in Publishing Award in Picture Books from the Association of Catholic Publishers; Forgiven: A Guide to Confession and the Examen Prayer, winner of the 2025 CMA Book Award in Books for Young Adults; and The Curse He Chose, the first of the In Aeternum YA trilogy.