Children's Books by Age

Mother Mary Loyola

Home for Good

      The unassuming title Home for Good and the original motivation Mother Loyola had in writing this book—that is, to help young ladies who were finishing boarding scho

The First Christmas

Imagine a Christmas book for children so beautifully made that its illustrations required as many as a dozen separate woodblocks to print each picture! Published in 1875 by the renowned Catholic...

Mother Mary Loyola

Jesus of Nazareth: The Story of His Life Written for Children

  James Cardinal Gibbons was Archbishop of Baltimore when he asked Mother Loyola to write this story of the Life of our Lord. As a revered author himself—and considering the number of such stories...

E.T.W. Branscombe

Heavenward Bound

Come along on a journey toward our Heavenly Home! In Heavenward Bound, children discover that God has given us everything we need to find our way Home. With Clare Dawson's delightful illustrations as...

Dom Bede Camm, O.S.B.

The Voyage of the PAX

  Written originally to be read aloud to the boys in his charge who were preparing for Benedictine life, Dom Bede Camm's The Voyage of the PAX transforms the spiritual life into a rollicking...

Gelett Burgess

A Collection of Goops

Experience for yourself the treasure that inspired generations of children's authors, including the young Dr. Seuss! In 1900, Gelett Burgess introduced the world to the Goops—a race of spectacularly...

Marion Florence Lansing

Page, Esquire and Knight

A recent perusal of a modern encyclopedia revealed a mere three-line entry for Roland, the great hero of the Chanson de Roland, one of the earliest epic masterpieces of medieval French literature...

Leonora Blanche Lang

The Book of Saints and Heroes

From the creators of the beloved Blue Fairy Book, Red Fairy Book, and their ten colorful companions comes a collection of stories about the saints, told with all the charm, adventure, and wonder that...

Mother Mary Salome

Saints and Festivals: A Cycle of the Year for Young People

  Mother Mary Salome first wrote The Feasts of Mother Church in 1904, a volume of meditations upon many of the great feasts of the Liturgical Year. In 1913 she returned to the subject for a younger...

Highway to Heaven Series

The Magnificat Readers: Second Reader

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

Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson

Old Testament Rhymes

How does a young child begin to make sense of all the people and events of the Old Testament—and understand that they are all leading somewhere? In Old Testament Rhymes, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson...

Mother Mary Loyola

First Confession

  The greatest challenge in preparing young children for the Sacrament of Penance lies in helping them to approach the confessional willingly and without fear. What children experience at their First...