June Giveaway: Mended Wood Literary Society
This month’s giveaway will award one lucky winner a bag full of books for America’s 250th next month!
This month’s giveaway will award one lucky winner a bag full of books for America’s 250th next month!
When families are equipped to enjoy the freedom and joy that come from good stories, a world opens up: one that emphasizes the goodness of God’s world, the fallenness of man, and the truth found in the pages of the Bible.
This is a story that resonates perfectly with the words from The Brothers Karamazov, “something profound will appear at the end of time to make sense of all the bloodshed.”
Virginia Lee Burton’s books have been a fixture in our home since my children were tiny.
Throughout the story, we see more clearly how Addie’s heart has grown hard under the weight of carrying so much pain at such a young age.
Today we’re filling up a library bag with favorites about nature. I am not exaggerating when I say this is the prettiest bunch of books we’ve given away.
This was not an illustrated novel being proposed, but hundreds of pages of sequential comics. Rabbits by the thousands and more landscapes than any I had ever drawn, combined. I knew it would be an undertaking like no other, and to this day I have not faced such a challenge.
This month’s booklist is all inspired by the Artemis II mission; we’ve got space books, an astronomer biography, and even a couple of graphic novels!
In all the letters, he treats the children he is writing to with great dignity and respect. This will not surprise readers of the Narnia books, but it is wonderful to read.
Parents often face this (wonderful) challenge: as children develop as readers, they often hit a voracious stage, where their ability to read books far outstrips their mom and dad’s ability to find them. Where can you turn in those moments? How do you help to keep that child’s love for books growing?
The other day, we told you all about the staff’s picks for middle grade books—we mostly love the classics, don’t we?—and now we’re giving one lucky winner their own set of all of these titles.
We’ve been cheering you on to enjoy Middle Grade books all month long, but we wanted to get in on the fun.