Children's Books by Age

The First Christmas

The first Christmas comes to life on the pages of this book from 1875. The original paintings were recreated using a sophisticated woodcut technique that gives the feel of an engraving, but in vivid colors. With verses by Rosa Mulholland, who frequently...

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 school to make the right choices in life--both utterly belie the...

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 available even then, we can only...

Gelett Burgess

A Collection of Goops

      Experience for yourself the treasure that inspired generations of children's authors, including the young Dr. Seuss.  Gelett Burgess first published Goops and How to be Them in 1900, using reverse psychology to poke fun at...

E.T.W. Branscombe

Heavenward Bound

    Come along on a journey toward our Heavenly Home as we learn about God and His Church, how to talk to Him in Prayer, and how to receive His graces for the journey through the Sacraments.  Why did God make us?  Why is it sometimes...

Marion Florence Lansing

Page, Esquire and Knight

      A recent perusal of a modern set of encyclopedias revealed a mere three-line entry for Roland, whose story formed the basis for one of the first great epics of medieval France, the Chanson de Roland. So much of western culture was...

Leonora Blanche Lang

The Book of Saints and Heroes

      Andrew Lang was an Oxford fellow and Scotsman who had a distinguished career as a poet, novelist and historian.  His wife Leonora was extremely well-educated herself, having translated a history of Russia from the French and...

Mother Mary Salome

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

    Mother Mary Salome wrote a volume of meditations called The Feasts of Mother Church in 1904, covering many of the most important feasts of the Liturgical Year.  In 1913, she followed up with Saints and Festivals, adapting portions of...

Dom Bede Camm, O.S.B.

The Voyage of the PAX

      In writing this allegory to help explain the religious life to the boy oblates in his charge, Dom Bede drew upon the struggles he experienced during his conversion, as well as an experience from his Oxford years, when shipwrecked off...

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 within are those prescribed by the...

Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson

Old Testament Rhymes

      “A book intended to give to children a general idea of the course of Old Testament history from the Fall to the Redemption, especially of those incidents and personages that point to Christ. The rhymes are designedly simple and...

Rev. Henry S. Spalding, S.J.

The Cave by the Beech Fork

      From the discovery of a secret cave to the winning of a David-and-Goliath shooting match, there is no lack of action in The Cave by the Beech Fork, as we follow Owen Howard and Martin Cooper through their exploits in early 19th...