Reading through Holy Week: Good Friday

I’m not actually inclined to do a lot of reading, or talking, today. As far back as I can remember, Good Friday has been a day for keeping quiet, for reflecting, for watching and waiting. For realizing that nothing we, or any book, can say has any weight next to the eloquence of what’s happening [...]

We flew the coop!

No review this week, folks. Last week, Haley and I both got the enjoy that rarest and most mixed of blessings: travel without children. And now we are both home and reconnecting, which in my case means lots of reading to a book-addicted-18-month-old and not so much writing. (In other news, any tips for when [...]

Books for the New Year

Happy 2012!  We’ll be back into the swing of things here on the blog next Monday, so please stop by then.  In the meantime I wanted to pass on the link for the CYBILS 2011 finalists.  If you haven’t discovered the CYBILS children’s book awards yet, you’re truly missing out!  This is their sixth year [...]

Back Soon!

This is just a quick note to say that Sarah and I are taking a couple of weeks off from blogging so we can focus on observing the last week of Advent and then celebrating the birth of our Savior.  We hope that you all have wonderful Christmas celebrations planned and that you’ll join us [...]

Your Favorites

Hello, faithful readers!  Sarah and I do have some great new books to share with you, but unfortunately none of our reviews were ready to post today.  Instead, for a fun change of pace we thought we’d turn the tables and ask you to tell us about your favorite theological children’s books.  We know that there [...]

The Moses Basket

The Moses Basket Jenny Koralek and Pauline Baynes Eerdmans, 2003 I have a younger brother, and my daughter does, too: we spend a lot of time these days talking about what it means to be the big sister, and the responsibility she has to love and protect her little brother. I can’t wait for her [...]

Home Sweet Home

Yep, it’s been awhile. How are you? Settling into fall routines? Enjoying longer, cooler evenings with a good book? I sure hope so. Oh, me? Where have I been? Well, let’s just say I’d like to go a nice long time before I see the inside of an airplane with a toddler again. We’ve been [...]

Here’s to Duds…

No, this is not a review. In fact, you’ve probably noticed this is the second Monday in a row without a review. Well, life unfolds in its usual, hard-to-control manner: utility sinks overflow, laundry rooms flood, kids get teeth, trips get taken. But it’s not just the busyness that’s made sitting down to write a [...]

Your friendly helpful Wednesday link

A friend and Aslan’s Library reader sent this link along to me earlier today, and I thought it was worth sharing: 10 Tips for Developing a Love of Literature. Much of it is stuff that I already “knew,” but it was winsomely put and well worth reading. A plus: I loved her idea of putting [...]

Summer Chapter Books!

Over here at Aslan’s Library we are big fans of Melissa Wiley and her blog Here in the Bonny Glen. So imagine my delight when, several weeks ago, she posted a list of the best chapter books to read with a four year old! Because, you see, I have a four year old. I’ve known since [...]