Title: The Princess And The Goblin, The Princess and Curdie Author: George MacDonald File Under: Read-Aloud, Fairy Tale, Adventure Recently my eye was briefly caught by one of those “50 books that build character” lists. I glanced at the bright, rather attention-deficit-disorder-augmenting covers and cheery titles and was confirmed in my hunch that you’d be wasting… Read More »
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The Library Project: Dangerous Journey
Title: Dangerous Journey Author: Lazlo Hamori Filed Under: Adventure, Read-Aloud, Historical Fiction Recommended Age: 10-13, but good for all ages, really! Today is the Solemnity (alert! extra ice cream!) of the birth of John the Baptist. As our dear Fr. Marc reminded us today at Mass, the Church just doesn’t let us forget about Christmas,… Read More »
Thanksgiving runs into Advent, heads up!
Our Thanksgiving weekend is usually packed with a lot of lying around trying to digest all the food combined with frantic maximizing of the potential of able bodies to do heavy lifting. It’s hard getting them to move but it’s worth it to accomplish the last of the raking and other late-fall rock-bottom necessities. For… Read More »
Advent, The beginning of Wonder
Advent is the perfect time to begin to see what I meant by saying — surprising even myself — that the home is a place for order and wonder. THE question, the one I started blogging to try to answer, the one I despair of finding time or brain cells to answer (because I’m just… Read More »