Without further ado, here’s your first list of recommendations from The Mended Wood Literary Society!
To help embrace the month of Thanksgiving with that attitude, here’s a list of eight Thanksgiving-themed books that I have loved reading aloud with my family.
In our imaginations we explore other worlds, we put ourselves into situations we’ve never actually been in, and we inevitably wonder: What would we do there? What would we be like?
Even though she was not perfect, Katie Luther’s life shows us what living in freedom looks like: no longer striving to be flawless to please God, no longer slaves to sin, but letting God work in and through us as we extend his love and kindness to those in our lives.
The artist agreed to bring the stories the next morning. He left the fourteen drawings with Wenders. But he did not return the next day. Or the day after that. Harris Burdick was never heard from again.
The book covers the overall story of Scripture – creation, the fall, redemption, and the new creation – by carefully tracing the kingly theme through all seventy chapters
Animal books educate children on different species, and reading from an animal’s point of view can nurture empathy for that creature. Here are a few books that middle-graders can check out during this special month.
I’ve always thought that fall ends more abruptly than the other seasons. Winter slowly melts into spring, spring warms its way into summer, and summer fades into fall. But the winter edge of fall has always seemed sharp to me. When leaves that shimmered overhead one day would crunch beneath my feet the next, when…
Fiction ought to make us ask, “What if it’s real?” In our broken world, the best stories should help us believe that something better is coming—that something better is possible. Glenn McCarty’s new title, The Song of the Stone Tiger, does just that.
In the world of Middle-earth, today is the birthday of two distinguished hobbits: Bilbo Baggins of the Shire and his nephew, Frodo. It is, of course, the auspicious occasion of Bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday party, which is the opening scene of The Fellowship of the Ring. This same day was Frodo’s coming of age at the…
“My life is Groundhog Day. Every day is exactly the same.” Her baby crawled around her feet as her toddler played close by. I remember those days when all my children were young, and it felt like all I could report about each day was feeding my children and changing their diapers. Nap time and…
A Review of The Redeemed Reader: Cultivating a Child’s Discernment and Imagination Through Truth and Story Add The Redeemed Reader to your school supply list this autumn. This helpful resource is a collaborative effort by the book reviewers at RedeemedReader.com, published by Moody Publishers. Janie Cheaney, Betsy Farquhar, Hayley Morell, and Megan Saben consider the…
