Saint Nicholas and the Nine Gold Coins: A Review

Saint Nicholas and the Nine Gold Coins: A Review

Of all the stories that we tell about St. Nicholas, the most familiar is probably the one that Jim Forest retells in Saint Nicholas and the Nine Gold Coins. The Story of the Poor Man and His Three Daughters It’s the story about a poor man who had three daughters. In...
The Miracle of Saint Nicholas: A Review

The Miracle of Saint Nicholas: A Review

There’s a lot that’s wonderful about The Miracle of Saint Nicholas. The story is set in the small Russian village of Zeema sometime after the fall of the Soviet Union. It’s Christmas eve. The village church, the Church of St. Nicholas, has been closed for 60 years. A...
The Baker’s Dozen: A Review

The Baker’s Dozen: A Review

Most children’s book authors have a day job that pays their bills, while they work on their books in the evenings, or on the weekends when they’re not trying to catch up with laundry and cooking. There are exceptions, of course, but not many. I’m a technical writer....
Vasily and the Dragon: A Review

Vasily and the Dragon: A Review

I think it’s fair to say that, after the Theotokos, St. Nicholas is the Orthodox Church’s most beloved saint. He is the patron of more countries and causes and churches and people than any other saint. We celebrate his feastday every year on December 6. We honor him...
King Island Christmas: A Review

King Island Christmas: A Review

There is so much going on in King Island Christmas, and so many reasons you need to get it, that I hardly know where to begin. King Island Christmas is based on events that occurred in the winter of 1951. Rie Muñoz and her husband were teachers at the school that the...

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