Remember the definition for a living book from our last visit? Maybe you think you have found a true living book, but you aren’t sure. Here is a great test – read one or two pages to your children, then stop and close the book, as if you are finished for the day. If your children beg you to keep going, you have found a true living book! You have captured their imagination, and the author’s words are connecting with your children! YEAH!
Here are some books, and places I have found great living books to read to my children:
1. The Bible – the Ultimate living book!
2. Biographies of great people – in many different fields and at many different times of history
3. Narnia and The Hobbit have been great escapes for my older children, and have inspired them to nobility and courage and faithfulness
4. The books of G.A. Henty – GREAT historical fiction that will bring your children right into the happenings in the past.
5. The books of R.M. Ballantyne – also a great writer of adventure books
6. Five Little Peppers and How they Grew
7. the Little House on the Prarie series books
8. Cole Family Christmas
9. Sir Cumference Books – geometry presented in story form! This series woke up a love for geometry in my child that claims to hate math!
10. Honey for a Child’s Heart by Gladys Hunt
11. The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease (not all of the books listed here are compatible with a biblical worldview – use discernment, as always!)
12. Books Children Love by Elizabeth Laraway Wilson
13. Newberry Award winners for lists of potential great books to read or have the children read on their own.
14. Too many to go on!
You can obtain some of the books above at the following websites:
Ancient Paths Christian Bookstore
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