When I Met Karana
The book filled a gap for me. I returned to it time and again until my copy was well-worn and loved.
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Beautiful Books
An acquaintance described them with a phrase her six-year-old friend coined: “deliciously kind.” They’re the stories that remind us of the world that ought to be.
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Review: Children of the Forest
The lovely book, Children of the Forest, by Elsa Beskow, is a recent discovery for me that has me reminiscing about earlier days of my older children’s lives and hoping that my toddler can be outdoors as much as possible.
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Finding the Gospel in The Velveteen Rabbit
I see myself in the Velveteen Rabbit—less beautiful and more old-fashioned than my counterparts. Frankly, I sometimes feel as though I don’t fit in anywhere. I wonder: how do I become who I’m meant to be?
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Review: Deep Breath, Little Whisper
God made us both body and soul, and the two parts affect each other. This is a fantastic way of teaching kids—or anyone—to lean into God’s good gift of a body to turn our focus to Him.
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The World of Charles Dickens
The books below manifest their creators’ love for the patron saint of storytelling, but their virtue lies in more than their subject matter. Their own charm, wit, ingenuity, and, above all, heart, does just homage to the timeless Victorian author.
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Review: The Callenlas Chronicles
Callenlas is a world filled with treasure, and these books give us just a taste of a place striated with stories.
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January Giveaway: Mended Wood Literary Society
We’re back with a great collection of books for your winter months.
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Review: Lilias Trotter: Daring in the Desert
This wonderful middle-grade biography spans Lilias’s entire life, revealing all the providential moments that lead her to the decision to leave home, security, and success behind and become a missionary in Africa.
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The Dream Keeper Saga: A Review
Our kids aren’t strangers to our world’s fallenness. But Butler’s series helps them to know that this fallenness is not determinative or absolute.
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Beauty for All
The entire room made the turn with my reading, from the fanciful to the wonderful, from the truth of wonderland to the true world that God made.
And I knew in that moment that we had something special on our hands.
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How God Used A Christmas Carol to Resurrect Literature in My Life
Scrooge’s lesson somehow became my own, and with him I set my heart to stop my covetous existence, grappling for the lost currency of my home culture, so that I might exchange it for a much more valuable life of living with and for my fellow man.
