Book reviews so Christian families can find wholesome and clean books so they can turn read-aloud time into family discipleship.
Every recommendation includes a synopsis of the book, things to be on the look out for, and scripture to dig into for discipleship opportunities with your children.
Amelia Bedelia starts her first day working for Mr. and Mrs. Rogers. But everything goes horribly wrong because Amelia Bedelia takes everything quite literally.
What does she do and how will Mr. and Mrs. Rogers respond?
Princess Magnolia does everything you think a princess might do. She drinks hot chocolate, eats scones, and wears a puffy, pink dress with a tiara on her head.
But she also has a super secret. She’s the Princess in Black.
Jonathan Toomey rarely smiled and never laughed but what the village didn’t know was a small secret made him that way. He lived his life as a lonesome woodcarver, some say the best in the whole valley. And that brought the widow McDowell and her son, Thomas to Mr. Toomey’s door.
Susan McDowell hires Mr. Toomey to make a nativity scene to replace the one she lost in her recent move. When Thomas wants to watch Jonathan work, he is allowed; but will he be scared away by the curmudgeon or will Thomas and his mother soften Jonathan Toomey’s hard heart?
No one liked the Herdman kids. They were rude. They cursed and smoked cigars! Even the girls. The one place everyone got a reprieve was at church on Sundays until the Herdmans decided they wanted to come to church and join the Christmas pageant.
Everyone was shocked. No one was happy. Except for the Herdman kids, who somehow managed to snag every important role in the Christmas pageant. This was definitely going to be the worst Christmas pageant ever. Or was it?
“High in the mountains, where the clouds lie on the ground like great cotton balls, is the Christmas town of Noel.”
Alexander’s mom is sick so he must travel to the lighting of the flame alone hoping he is chosen by the Keeper of the Flame as the new person to light the torch, the person who gives “the truest gift of Christmas.”
But Alexander meets an old man in need of help outside the city gates, he risks getting shut out and missing the lighting of the torch.
Pam Muñoz Ryan takes us on a journey to a night in Bethlehem when it didn’t snow on Christmas Eve but the silent night when angels sang above. There Was No Snow on Christmas Eve is a sweet intro to the night Jesus was born.