Raising Readers

  CHAPTER FIVE: The Valley of the Shadow Today's Theme: God With Us Today, following on the heels of his fight with Apollyon and his ...

This post is part of our Pilgrim's Progress read along during our Reformation Month celebration.  You can find an introduction and sign up for an ...

  Chapter 3: The Hill of Difficulty Today's Theme: Lions on Chains Salvation is the beginning of the battle.  In Chapter 3, Christian is now ...

Welcome to our Pilgrim's Progress Read Along, part Redeemedreader.com's Reformation Month celebration!  We'll be pursuing two tracks over the month of October, 2011--this one for ...

Our librarian is always reminding moms that it's not enough to read TO your children.  To raise readers, you also need to read in front ...

Athanasius.  By Simonetta Carr.  Reformation Heritage Press, sale 2011.  66 pp.  Ages 9-12. What makes a good children's book?  We've talked a lot the past ...

A while back, I recommended to you The Jesus Storybook Bible in audiobook format.  Today, I would like to add one more Bible story to ...

"Of course 'successful careers' are important, but I would suggest thinking of them in the very different Christian paradigm of vocation.  Not, what career should ...

The basic premise of Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Ted Tripp is this: “Behavior is heart-driven, therefore, correction, discipline, and training—all parenting—must be addressed to ...

Back-to-school time means hitting the books and living more structured days.  All the more reason to look forward to a good, family movie at the ...

Part One. Part Two. In the second essay of The  Abolition of Man, “The Way,” Lewis showed that humanity seemed to have only  one code ...

For several years before I became a parent, I worked part-time in The Literacy Council of Sumner County (LCSC).  Like most non-profit organizations, it was ...

I'll admit it.  Janie and I like abstract thinking--cultural analysis and big picture type stuff.  But occasionally we try to offer practical help for parents ...

This week, widespread rioting in Britain has blanketed the news, along with commentators asking the eternal question, “Why?”  Shaking my head over the pictures of ...

We're talking about Shakespeare this week, and one of the difficulties of introducing him to kids is finding books that aren't too dark or perverse ...

We end our extended history week with what some consider to be the purest form of history: biography.  The old argument of whether great events, ...

Thanks to everyone who entered our Father's Day contest!   Janie and I have enjoyed both hearing your dad stories, as well as the opportunity to ...

Of all the charges hurled against Christianity in the modern age, one of the most potent is "paternalistic."  Christianity, it's said, has kept women in ...

"For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him ...

SUMMER CAMP We are eventually going to do our first summer camp next month.  But in the meantime, I have been looking for ways to ...

Just when you thought we'd done a pretty good job of knocking down stereotypes, a new study (those three words have to be among the ...

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the ...

We don't usually do teasers on this blog.  But we don't usually do interviews with scholars as distinguished as Gene Edward Veith,  Jr. either.  If ...

“They know bits and pieces of the Old Testament—how God created the heavens and the earth, what rules he wants us to follow, how he ...

Today's Article is a Guest Post by Libby Minor.  See more about her below. "The morality of the stories was clear and Christian: misbehaviour led ...

I know I'm in murky water here.  Early in my daughter's infancy, my husband and I began the argument: is our daughter a princess? Now ...

Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel.  HarperCollins, 2004, 355 pp.  Skybreaker (2007); Starclimber (2009). Reading Level: Middle grade, ages 10-12 Recommended for: Ages 10-12 and up One-line ...

In Surprised By Joy, C. S. Lewis wrote about the flowering of his imagination at an early age--especially through books, which were piled up everywhere ...

As many of you know--particularly those who've read our newsletter this week (and if you haven't signed up already, why not take a moment and ...

Roughly three years ago, I read Ginger Plowman's book, Don't Make Me Count to Three.  It's a fantastic resource with lots of practical advice for ...

You'd think a mother of triplets would have enough to do, but a few years Amy Pixton took the time to dream up and create ...

  Everybody seems to be pinching pennies these days.  I am admittedly pretty miserly when it comes to buying books.  As much as I value ...

The Anansi stories have been handed down through generations of Ashanti culture...Born in Ghana I left at aged 3, leaving much of the Ghanaian culture ...

It's a Book by Lane Smith.  Roaring Brook Press, 2010.  32 pages. Reading Level: Picture book, ages 4-8 Recommended for: ages 10-12 and up Bottom ...

We live in an age of series picture books. Which, like having 27 McDonalds in every city, makes shopping a little less complicated for tired, ...

The claim that a story Bible isn’t actually a Bible may seem a bit shocking at first. I mean, it’s got the word "Bible" right ...

You’re a new parent. You’ve got the baby crib with a fancy name, the swing, the bouncer, the burping pads. Now it’s time to choose ...