We Don’t Need a Sage on the Stage but a Guide on the Side: Kamala Harris’s “Superheroes Are Everywhere”
Pop quiz: You’re in a large room lined with books. The center of the room is a hive of activity. Children reduced […]
Saint Stories: Why You Should Listen to Them and Where to Find Them
The hours of the day with young children can fly by in a flurry of activity with a keen sense of adventure. […]
Where You Least Expect It
“I don’t care if you mix your peas and corn. Just don’t call it porn.” -comic strip from the early 2000s […]
“The Boxcar Children” Series: Everything You Need to Know
The Boxcar Children is a longstanding series of chapter books. Aimed at readers in grades 2-6, there are now more than 160 […]
Thomas Sowell Speaks the Truth: There are no solutions, only trade-offs
Thomas Sowell is an economist who writes with refreshing depth and breadth of thought. Far from the dull and dry economists who […]
The Treasure Box Reminds Us of Boredom So Sweetly Remembered
In the Catholic Children’s Treasure Box, there are many charming and imaginative stories, games, and fancies. The series, originally magazines for children, […]
Innocence
Where dips the rocky highlandOf Sleuth Wood in the lake,There lies a leafy islandWhere flapping herons wakeThe drowsy water rats;There we’ve hid […]
Cheryl Bardoe’s “Nothing Stopped Sophie”: A Story about a Lady Mathematician That Actually Inspires
“The human spirit requir[es] more resources inside when outside it has less.” –Sophie Germain Many “empowering” books for girls are silly puff pieces. […]
The Secret to Becoming a Reading Family
Who does not aspire to have a house full of good and well-loved books? It is obvious that many people do not […]
Rumer Godden’s “The Doll’s House” and the Lesson of Beauty Found in Old Things
Rumer Godden’s imaginative stories for children evoke fairy tales. At once sumptuous and innocent, many of her stories, like The Story of […]