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Highway to Heaven Series

The Vine and the Branches (Highway to Heaven)

Produced by the Marquette University Institute of Catechetical Research under the editorship of Edward A. Fitzpatrick in the 1930’s, the Highway to Heaven series of religion textbooks is a breath of...

Mother Mary Loyola

The Child of God

      The Child of God bears the fitting subtitle What Comes of Our Baptism, for it takes up the great question of what it means to become a child of God,

Rev. Henry S. Spalding, S.J.

The Race for Copper Island

      The year is 1669.  In French colonial Quebec, Paul Guibeau has won fame for his bravery in fighting the Iroquois, and now he hopes to turn this success into a military career.  When he...

Highway to Heaven Series

Religion in Life Curriculum First Grade Teachers Plan Book and Manual

Developed in the 1930s by the Marquette Institute of Catechetical Research, the Religion in Life Curriculum is more than just a Teacher's Manual for use with its accompanying textbook series, The...

Mother Mary Loyola

Jesus of Nazareth: The Story of His Life Simply Told

  In 1906, Mother Mary Loyola was asked to write the story of Our Lord for American missionaries.  Her writing style had so endeared her to children the world over that, despite the many excellent...

Highway to Heaven Series

The Magnificat Readers: Third Reader

The Magnificat Readers are a collection of excerpts from a wide selection of vintage Catholic school readers, dating from the late 1800s to the early 1930s.  For the most part, the selections found...

Rev. Henry S. Spalding, S.J.

The Sheriff of the Beech Fork

      The Sheriff of the Beech Fork continues the adventures of 15-year-old Owen Howard and Martin Cooper in the early 19th century Kentucky wilderness, as begun in

Our Friends in Heaven Trilogy

Three beloved figures of our Catholic faith come to life in this delightful trilogy of illustrated stories from France: the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Nicholas, and St. Francis of Assisi. Originally...

Saint Nicholas: Patron Saint of Children

Here is the tale of a saint so widely beloved that almost no one knows his true story…because they know him only as Santa Claus! But long before he became the familiar Christmas gift-bringer, St...

Mother Margaret Bolton

God's Hour in the Nursery Package

How can children who are barely old enough to read begin to understand such profound truths as the nature of the human soul and the supernatural life of grace? In God's Hour in the Nursery, Mother...

Sister Mary Philip

The Sacred Heart and Mine in Holy Communion

The Sacred Heart and Mine in Holy Communion offers thirty-three brief meditations upon the titles of the Sacred Heart, intended especially for preparation before or thanksgiving after Holy Communion,...

Katharine Tynan

The Rhymed Life of St. Patrick

Few saints have inspired as rich a collection of stories as St. Patrick—and in The Rhymed Life of St. Patrick, Irish poet Katharine Tynan gathers them into one lively, beautifully illustrated ballad...