Charlotte’s Blog
Can a children’s book get William Hoy into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Guest post by Nancy Churnin, author of The William Hoy Story A dream can change your life. It doesn’t even have start out as your dream. But if you let the dream into your heart, you can make it your own. That’s when amazing things start to happen. In 2003 I found out...
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The Great Big Book of Families
There are so many reasons to share picture books with your children. Picture books build your child’s vocabulary and improve your child’s reasoning skills. They provide an engaging activity for quiet times and for settling down to sleep. And they allow you to teach...
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Sweet Song: A story of St. Romanos the Melodist
Jane G. Meyer’s Sweet Song is a sweet story about St. Romanos the Melodist. St. Romanos lived in the sixth century, and there isn’t a lot known about him for sure. He is said to have composed over 1,000 hymns celebrating the saints and feasts of the Church. Fewer than...
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Saints Athanasia and Andronicus, models of marriage and monasticism
Athanasia and her husband Andronicus lived in Antioch towards the end of the fifth century. The city had been founded not a hundred years earlier. It was a city that attracted people from the far corners of the world, where silk and spices were traded and ideas and...
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Teaching children with children’s books
Guest post by Angela Isaacs, author of I Pray Today and Goodnight Jesus. I’m a bookworm - reading is my superpower. Whenever I tackle a new task, I turn to books. When I took up gardening, I cleared out our public library. When my husband and I were catechumens, we...
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I Pray Today: A board book for giving and for reading
As far as I’m concerned, a book is the perfect gift for every occasion. And if the occasion is a baby shower or a baptism or a toddler’s birthday, I Pray Today, is the perfect gift. The names on the cover of I Pray Today might look familiar to you. The book was...
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Why do we celebrate Jonah today?
Today is the feast day of St. Jonah, the prophet who tried to run away from God and was swallowed by a fish. But why? Why today? Feast days are usually set on the date of the saint’s death. Sometimes they’re on the date a major church was commemorated to them, or on...
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The United States v. Jackie Robinson: Court martial of an American hero
With so many famous people, we know just one story. At least, that’s true for me. I know about Paul Revere’s famous ride, and Betsy Ross’s famous flag. I know that Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon, and that Jackie Robinson was the first Black...
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St. Placilla the Empress
Yesterday was St. Placilla’s feast day. Yesterday was also the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, which is undoubtedly why you’ve never heard of St. Placilla. When a saint’s day falls on one of the Twelve Great Feasts, the saint disappears. And I think St. Placilla...
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Out-of-the-box kids and Sundays of the Paralytic
Guest post by Anastasia K. Bond And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. -Mark 2:4 (NKJV) When you're the parent of a kid...
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How do you celebrate the Nativity of the Theotokos?
Are there things you do every year to celebrate the Nativity of the Theotokos? I didn’t grow up Orthodox. So I didn’t grow up having customs and traditions for all of the Orthodox feasts. I wish I had. I love the liturgical calendar. Honestly, it’s one of the things...
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14 picture books with disabled characters
I thought it was hard to find picture books about people celebrating Easter. It’s just as hard to find picture books about people with disabilities. Take a look at the picture at the top of this post – see those three big stacks of books? Those are the picture books...
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