Author: Jean Schoonover-Egolf Illustrator: Jean Schoonover-Egolf Age Range: 3 – 8 years. Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor (first thee books) and Perpetual Light Publishing (fourth book). The very talented Jeanie Egolf has produced a cute series of books about little Molly McBride. Molly is five years old and she isn’t having a very good day when […]
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Author: Raymond Arroyo Illustrator: Antonio Javier Caparo Age Range: 10 and up. It was only after reading this book for the second time that I truly appreciated how much is going on. Raymond Arroyo is a master storyteller, and I was so wrapped up in the story the first time I read it, that I
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Author: Sherry Weaver Smith Illustrated: Rebecca Thornburgh Published: Pauline Books Age Range: 7 – 12 Quite simply – I LOVED THIS BOOK. What a delightfully written and crafted story. This is one of two books in the Pauline series “Friends of the Saints”. In this book, Saint Therese of Lisieux is fifteen years old
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Title: The Boy Who Knew Author: Corinna Turner Publisher: Zephyr Publishing Age Range: 10 and up. This is an impressive book about a modern-day saint. Well, actually at the time of writing, Blessed Carlo Acutis is not yet a saint, but he has recently been beatified. Corinna Turner has written this book from the point
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Author: Lisa M. Hendey Illustrator: Jenn Bower Age Range: 6 – 10 Publisher: Servant (an imprint of Franciscan Media) What a fun and engaging way to learn all about Saint Patrick. The Chime Travelers is a series of five books in which the two main characters travel back in time to meet our most beloved
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Author: Jon M. Sweeney Illustrator: Roy Deleon Publisher: Paraclete Press Age Range: 6 – 10. Being a lifelong lover of cats, I was always going to love this book. What a wonderful idea! Why didn’t I think of it? The Holy Father is portrayed in this book as a very nice, kind old man who
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Author: Carmela A. Martino Publisher: Arquilla Press Range Age: 11 + (parental guidance required) Read this book and weep. The subject of death, grief and loss is rarely explored in books for children and teens. It’s a challenging subject. But Rosa, Sola is a special book. It will capture your heart and then break it.
Author: Mike and Sarah Zimmerman Illustrator: Sarah Zimmerman Age Range: 3 – 6 or 7 Publisher: Little Catholic Clubhouse. I can relate to Mike and Sarah Zimmerman’s frustration at not being able to find appropriate Catholic children’s books to read to their children. In fact, Mike and Sarah became so frustrated that they wrote
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Author: Sister Maria Grace Dateno, FSP Illustrated: Paul Cunningham Published: Pauline Books and Media. Age Range: 6 – 10 years. Why weren’t there books like this around when I was young? This is such an interesting little book that your kids will love reading. Shepherds to the Rescue is the first in a series of
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Author: Virginia Lieto Illustrated: Carole Hahn Panzner Published: Parenesis Publishing. Age Range: 3 – 8 Younger school aged children will love holding this picture book in their hands. Every page is brightly coloured with large, simple drawings and pastel backgrounds to the broad and spaciously set print. It is a book designed to be read
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