Book note: Trouble Pug

(Shameless self-promotion warning) Trouble Pug is currently at #41 in Kindle Children’s ebooks > Animals > Dogs, at Amazon. It was a little higher than that earlier today. I expect it to drop through the day, unless there are fresh sales. (I’m not sure, but I think rankings get updated hourly.) But, at any rate, [...]

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A movie producer on prayer and culture

Micheal Flaherty, president of Walden Media, had a few things to say about movies, literature, history and prayer at a luncheon following following the National Prayer Breakfast this year. Key words: William Wilberforce, Philip Yancey, Dorothy Day, Malcolm Muggeridge, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Soviet Union, revival, It’s a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra, Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, Fiddler [...]

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Book note: The Wheel on the School, by Meindert DeJong

I’m not familiar with the children’s book The Wheel on the School, but this At A Hen’s Pace post has moved it onto my ‘want to read’ list. Parents: If, by chance, you’re on the lookout for boy-worthy books, At A Hen’s Pace says it was a hit with her boys.

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Thick or thin reading

Our little bookstore sells mostly used books, and we also like to stock regional offerings. So, we draw book scouts. In the old days, most book scouts were mostly looking to buy used books for other bookstores that sell used books. Sometimes they’d be scouting for a collector. Sometimes they were collectors themselves. These days, [...]

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Songs and stories…

…aren’t just entertainment. Children are “raised on” them.

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Books on Texas for kids: info please

Sherry at Semicolon is asking for recommendations for books about Texas to assign to sixth graders. She’s already got a pretty good list of a wide variety of books, fiction and nonfiction both, if you’re looking for kidlit recommendations yourself.

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‘Best teachable grace moment’ contest

A heads-up for Christian mothers of little girls. Phil at Brandywine Books has info on a contest you might like to enter.

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If you don’t find what you want in the local library…

…maybe you could start a Library Tree project. It sounds like a good way of getting wholesome selections on the shelves. I don’t know about where you live, but around here if you just donate a book to a public or school library, it stands an iffy chance of making it on the shelves. Setting it [...]

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Children’s books, then and now

Joseph Bottum, editor of First Things, has some opinions on children’s classics, old, new, and should-bes. Please don’t take my link as an endorsement of all his opinions, please. Thank you.

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Kathryn Judson, bookmaker

No, not a bookie. A book maker.

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