Children's Books by Age

My Picture Book of First Communion

This beautifully illustrated book, with its companion, My Picture Book of First Confession, was originally written by a Dutch religious, Brother Maria Cassianus Versteeg, as one among a series of books for children printed by their Orphanage Printing...

My Picture Book of First Confession

This beautifully illustrated book, with its companion, My Picture Book of First Communion, was originally written by a Dutch religious, Brother Maria Cassianus Versteeg, as one among a series of books for children printed by their Orphanage Printing...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Helene Adeline Guerber

Yourself & Your House Wonderful

      Tired of cringing at what's included in children's "health education" nowadays? It's good to learn about our bodies, but whatever happened to respecting them as well? In Yourself and Your House Wonderful, you will find a refreshingly...

William Canton

The Story of St. Elizabeth of Hungary

      Those who delight in Canton's other well-loved children's books, A Child's Book of Saints and A Child's Book of Warriors, will find much to satisfy in his Story of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary.  Canton has consulted some of the...

Mother Mary Loyola

The Child of God

      Mother Mary Loyola's treatment of the meaning of Baptism takes shape as a sort of Baltimore Catechism in conversational form.  Because it is written for a younger audience, she relies heavily on anecdotes and stories to...

Katharine Tynan

The Rhymed Life of St. Patrick

      “…in lively recitative ballad verse, Katharine Tynan tells the entire story of St. Patrick, without missing a single incident of any significance or importance. The book consists of thirty-two large folio pages, where 'a...