I have started a new blog called The Children’s Hour dedicated to reviews and recommendations for children’s books. Parents are often asking about good books to read to their children (and it is a good thing for pastors particularly to be ready to give guidance here), so I decided to post the reactions of myself …
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow(originally published early 1900’s; Bethlehem Books, 1993), 244 pages. This was a great story! It did seem to start slowly, and the language is different (they talk in Elizabethan English and various Icelandic or Norse terms). However, there is a glossary to help in getting started, and the …
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The Lantern Bearers, Rosemary Sutcliffe (Oxford University Press, 1959; Sunburst, 1994), 280 pages. We have read several Rosemary Sutcliffe books by now, and though this is the first one I am posting about it is not the first we read. This story concerns a young Briton, Aquila, who is a Roman soldier but stays behind …
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Saint Patrick, Michael J. McHugh (Christian Liberty Press, 1999), 150 pages. Stories about key historical Christian leaders are always attractive to me but we have learned from experience that a good idea for a book does not insure the good writing of the story. This book, however, is really well done. The story is told …
Augustine: The Farmer’s Boy of Tagaste, by P. De Zeeuw, J. Gzn (Inheritance Publications, 1988; translation of Dutch original), 93 pages. This book, though from the same series as the Athanasius book, was better written. The author does a good job in showing how Augustine chased sin and its consequences. I think the story is …
Against the World: The Odyssey of Athanasius, Henry Coray. (Inheritance Publications, 1994), 111 pages The idea of a children’s book on Athanasius, especially one designed to relate the heroism of the man and his stand for orthodoxy, is definitely appealing. However, this book was a disappointment to me. The book is designed for children, but …
Recently my wife was struggling with one of our sons to get him to do his homework. Eventually he had to be placed off to himself with his stack of work to complete. He did finally complete his work, but we discovered that he had mistaken his math assignment doing something like Lesson 73 instead …
With all the movie buzz, The Chronicles of Narnia will be good books to start with. These books are favorites of mine and my boys. We read them all two years ago when my boys were 6, 5, and 3 years old. They absolutely loved them. The writing is excellent (in fact it made it …