The Bronze Bow Elizabeth George Speare Houghton Mifflin, 1961 I don’t know how I missed The Bronze Bow when I was a young reader. I loved Elizabeth George Speare’s debut novel, Calico Captive and the Newbery-winning The Witch of Blackbird Pond. But somehow The Bronze Bow (also a Newbery medalist) never made it home from the [...]
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Here’s a question: how do you read? I remember a professor in college once remarking, off the cuff, that if we weren’t reading with pencils in hand, we weren’t properly reading at all. Enter the wonderful tradition of the commonplace book! Like my pre-digital forbearers, I keep a dedicated book in which I (mostly) record [...]
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The Divine Hours Compiled by Phyllis Tickle Image/Doubleday, 2000-2001 One of my favorite times of day is the close of breakfast, when I open up The Divine Hours and read the morning prayers with my nearly 2-year-old. While she finishes up her cereal she’s happy to listen to me pray the daily readings out loud. [...]
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy Eric Metaxas Thomas Nelson, 2010 An admission: this new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is not, technically speaking, a children’s book. It is reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, sprinkled with German words, has an extensive bibliography and endnotes, and clocks in at 542 pages. However: Eric Metaxas’ Bonhoeffer is an absolutely [...]
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