I had the titles that sat on my grandmother’s bookshelf beside the fireplace nearly memorized. I studied the spines as I sat in the big cozy chair. The Rim of the Prairie. A White Bird Flying. A Lantern in Her Hand. Spring Came On Forever. My grandmother loved Bess Streeter Aldrich. Somewhere in my teens,…
When a PaperbackSwap package arrived the other day, I realized I had to write another post for YLCF’s “Snapshots of Favorite Books”. I grew up with a pink blanket and “Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear…” and “The Goops.” My brother and I (not to mention our mom and dad!) could quote many of the poems…
I knew they were somewhere. After all, I had a special place for them on my bookshelf before we packed up everything during the remodel. And I wanted to take some pictures of them for the upcoming post on YLCF. But could I find them anywhere? No, my books about books were missing. Positively not…
Teary eyes blur the story on the screen. Because it reminded me of the girl I used to be. Young and in love. Happy and care free. Trusting implicitly in my Savior. Seeing every gift as one from His hand. Knowing He would withhold no good thing. What happened to that girl? When did life…
I grew up a log loader operator’s daughter. He grew up a builder’s son. I grew up reading Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel at my grandma’s. He grew up reading The Little House: Her Story every time he visited his next-door neighbors. When we were book shopping as newlyweds, he spotted The Little House. …
“How does a cow go to sleep — tell me how? How does a cow go to sleep?”
By the time it’s pages are half through, Mary’s eyes are drooping. It seems that the effect of saying “go to sleep” over enough times induces actual sleep on the part of a tired toddler—not to mention the yawns that Daddy is doing his best to suppress as he reads!
Going to Sleep on the Farm is one of our 18-month-old daughter Mary Kate’s favorite books…
When the heroines of two of my very favorite books were crying their eyes out over Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World, I knew it must really be a real book—and that I had to find a copy. Our local librarian, a dear Mennonite lady, lent me her own copy since it was not to…
At age 3 she isn’t quite a “beginning reader,” but my daughter loves The Beginning Reader’s Bible anyway. Marijke ten Cate’s illustrations are bright, realistic, and detailed enough to keep any toddler looking at them for longer than the page takes to read. I like The Beginning Reader’s Bible, too—because unlike most children’s Bibles which…
It took no more than a glance at the back cover for my daughters to be in love with this book by Dandi Daley Mackall—the kitty looks like it’s about to meow at you! But even better is the message inside, that God Loves Me More Than That. It’s almost like a God-sized version of…
Anthony DeStefano’s Little Star is my girls’ favorite Christmas story this year. But it’s not the typical cheerful Christmas story, at least not at first glance. Little Star is so small and tiny that everyone ignores him. But then, on that special night, Little Star understands that it truly is a King being born in…
It doesn’t get much cuter than Julie Sawyer Phillips’ “Really Woolly” character illustrations. And coupled with Bible stories set to rhyme in a board book with easy words children can understand, Really Woolly Bible Stories makes the perfect read-aloud with my almost-3-year-old and 1-year-old. Bonnie Rickner Jensen covers the highlights of the Bible, from Creation…
Books about books. Books about letters. Books with letters about books. For this bibliophile who loves letters, you can’t get much better than those combinations! All of which are found in two titles I just discovered: 84, Charing Cross Road and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. They have books and wartime in common. …
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