After I posted yesterday , I was led to this video link , in which Fr. Barron talks about The Hunger Games , and today I found this written...

It's   fifty years old!* ~~~~~ Here's an NPR story about the book , and here is o ne of my favorite L'Engle quotes:  "Y...

That's one of the lines my girls loved in Romeo and Juliet . I suspect they will also be calling people pestilent knaves. Yesterday I he...

I'm reading Charlotte's Web to Ramona, and every time I reread this gem, I'm struck by something deeply delightful. "Fro...

Awhile back, I wrote about how much we love the Martha and Charlotte Books, and about how we grieved to see them undergo abridgment surgery ...

Or gathering, since I'm also browsing my own shelves . Some of what's on our reading lists for this year: To Kill a Mockingbird My A...

I can thank Kathryn of The Bookworm for recommending this one as part of our Medieval study. It's the year 1066, and young Juliana, a S...

Maureen Wittmann 's For the Love of Literature: Teaching Core Subjects with Literature was part of my needed refueling this Christmas b...

Nancy Brown 's The Father Brown Reader is a delightful book. I'm not usually an advocate of condensed or abridged books, so why ...

Last year at this time, I posted this, about Ramona and one of our Advent books: Yesterday, I told Ramona, "We get to go to Mass, to...

We just finished reading Barbara Willard's Son of Charlemagne. The girls and I really enjoyed it, and found it even more compelling tha...

Maureen Wittmann does. And, she's written a book about how to teach core subjects with literature. For the Love of Literature , which ...

and join her for the September Carnival of Children's Literature ! Thank you, Charlotte , for hosting, and for rounding up so many great...

I have nothing to say today! I'm sending you away . A gain ! Go! Enjoy the Carnival of Children's Literature . I mean it, buddy.

The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida, and illustrated by Joanna Yardley, is a simple but affecting book about one little girl's reaction t...

But we wouldn't have it any other way. My plans are always bigger than my capabilities. Last summer, I said we would delve into World...

If you have not yet purchased copies of all of Melissa Wiley's books, head straight to Amazon.com, Bn.com, and your local bookstore and ...

I am hopelessly attached to Michael O'Brien's books. His Father Elijah was the first I read, about nine years ago. I became a zealo...

Gennady Spirin's A Apple Pie is an elegant alphabet book. Yes, elegant ... the illustrations by Gennady Spirin, which accompany this tr...

I don't usually use words such as "sad, dark and haunting" to describe a picture book. But Allen Say's Home of the Br...