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.
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?
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.
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.
Callenlas is a world filled with treasure, and these books give us just a taste of a place striated with stories.
We’re back with a great collection of books for your winter months.
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.Â
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.
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.Â
And I knew in that moment that we had something special on our hands.
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.
The grouping I include here is perfect for sharing, reading, and rereading at meals and devotions.
For those of us who also find ourselves in a land of Arguers, where can we find hope?
