Send us an email with your address and we’ll mail our gift to you: Volume 2 of Jan Bloom’s Who Should We Then Read Enjoy learning about 152 more great authors and the stories behind the books they wrote!
One day as I was putting away the vacuum cleaner I had an overwhelming longing for Lucinda. I knew Emily was the only one who would not think I was crazy for admitting this out loud, so I told her. Imagine my pleasure when she announced triumphantly a few minutes later, “Mom! There’s a sequel.… Read More The Story Behind Lucinda, or Is It Ruth?
Our monthly Book Sale has been updated! Please visit our Book Sale Page to browse our current selection of living books for sale.
You never know what to expect. That is part of the fun. It may be the most exciting event of the year, or a complete waste of time. Either way, if the whole family goes, we will have fun together and good memories of a day spent with one another. How? Where? Plundering the offerings of library sales.… Read More Something Fun for the Whole Family
Whenever I mention that good books are disappearing, someone is sure to bring up Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451. I remember avoiding that book because I wasn’t much of a science fiction aficionado; however, when I did finally read it, I couldn’t put it down. Of course it seemed ludicrous that firemen instead of putting… Read More Is Truth Stranger Than Fiction?
Don’t forget to leave a comment on this post about a favorite mother you know from literature to be included in the give-away drawing for a chance to win a book for yourself or a mother you know.
Yesterday we heard one of the most exciting sounds to us, the kind that arrests our attention, brings an instant smile of joy and skip of the heart: it was the in-drawn audible gasp of delight of a five-year-old boy in our library. He had spotted a book he had never read by an author he loves and he was rapturous.… Read More How Can I Get my Child to Read?
If you’ve read a lot of books, you’ve met a lot of characters. Some of the people we get to know in books remain with us for life, fond memories. The examples they set for us often are just as influential as some living people we’ve known. When I mention “Marmee,” do you know right off who I… Read More Famous Mothers I Have Known
If you enjoy reading, or would like to, you might find yourself pulling books off your shelf, checking them out from the library, or borrowing them from friends and setting them on the bedside table with the best intentions of reading them. If your life is even a little like mine, your days are packed and by the time… Read More Guilt Piling Up on the Nightstand
Little Britches (and others in the series) by Ralph Moody When the family moves to Colorado in hopes of a curative effect on his father’s health, Ralph learns that he must step up to help the family survive. Through the first few books Ralph’s character is honed, and by the end of the series we… Read More Top Picks: Dealing with Adversity