Author: Karen Kelly Boyce Illustrator: Sue Anderson Gioulis Publisher: St Benedict Press Age Range: 9 or 10+ (parental guidance for younger readers) This is an entertaining and refreshing book filled with imperfect but likeable characters. Some parents and teachers may not approve of some of the content. One sister struggles with swearing, another with smoking […]
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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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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: 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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