Picture Books
I’ll help you find wonderful picture books of all kinds, especially stories that include people of faith and people with disabilities.
Saint Francis and the Wolf: A new telling of an old story
Saint Francis and the Wolf is Jane Langton’s lovely retelling of a legend from the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Perhaps you know the story. The town of Gubbio, in Tuscany, was being terrorized by an enormous wolf. It prowled around Gubbio, “clawing at the gates by...
Snook Alone: A story of a real dog and a cartoon monk
Snook Alone has a lot of words. Unusual words. Beautiful words. Evocative words. Words of longing. Words that sigh. Words that slip between prose and poetry and back again. Words as soft as prayer, as haunting as the sea. I adore the words. All the words. Because of...
Dad, Jackie, and Me: More than a baseball story
April 15, 1947. A boy in Brooklyn is glued to the radio. It is opening day of the baseball season. Jackie Robinson is about to play his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The boy dreams of going to Ebbets Field to see the Dodgers play. And when his dad, who knows...
Looking Out for Sarah: A day in the life of a guide dog
Looking Out for Sarah describes a day in the life of Perry, the guide dog for a blind woman named Sarah. And Looking Out for Sarah received the Schneider Family Book Award the first year the awards were given. You know, of course, about the Caldecott and Newbery...
The Saint and the Circus: A story of drama on the high wire, with miracles
The Saint and the Circus is quirky and charming and utterly adorable. It was originally a chapter in an Italian children’s book called Storie dell’orizzonte. This chapter, “Le grazie di san Tonio” is the story of Filofilo, “the daring acrobat...AN INVITATION
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