Read-aloud Books

Here are a selection of books suitable for reading aloud with younger children or with the whole family.

  • Loving & Giving Loving & Giving

    Clare Dawson

    Loving & Giving

    $23.95

    “Friday’s child is Loving and Giving.” This little nursery rhyme gives such a sweet title to this book, which introduces the child to the Christian faith through that very lens: how we must love and give as a child of God. Written and...

  • Teacher Tells a Story: Book Two

    Rev. Jerome D. Hannan

    Teacher Tells a Story: Book Two

    $18.95

    You may recognize Dr. Hannan as the co-author of the popular textbooks The Story of the Church and The Bible Story. Encouraged by the success of his first volume of stories for teaching children in the first grade, Dr. Jerome Hannan went on to create a...

  • Teacher Tells a Story: Book One

    Rev. Jerome D. Hannan

    Teacher Tells a Story: Book One

    $16.95

    You may recognize Dr. Hannan as the co-author of the popular textbooks The Story of the Church and The Bible Story. This volume contains a wealth of stories for teachers and parents of children in their first year of formal schooling, whether that is...

  • Leading the Little Ones to Christ

    Rev. George M. Dennerle

    Leading the Little Ones to Christ

    $17.95

    In the early 20th Century, German educators Dr. H. Steiglitz and Rev. Michael Gatterer, S.J. developed a method of teaching the Catechism to children inspired by Our Lord's teaching in parables. By first appealing to the imagination of the child through...

  • A Little Child's First Communion

    Mother Margaret Bolton

    A Little Child's First Communion

    MSRP: $27.95
    $23.75

    Mother Margaret Bolton began her career in 1892 as a public school teacher in New York City before entering the Convent of the Cenacle of St. Regis in 1913, where she soon became Director of Religion. There she developed a method of teaching the...

  • My Picture Book of First Communion My Picture Book of First Communion

    My Picture Book of First Communion

    MSRP: $19.95
    $17.50

    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 My Picture Book of First Confession

    My Picture Book of First Confession

    MSRP: $19.95
    $17.50

    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...

  • The Magnificat Readers: Third Reader

    Highway to Heaven Series

    The Magnificat Readers: Third Reader

    MSRP: $32.95
    $28.00

        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...

  • The Spiritual Way: Book 4

    Mother Margaret Bolton

    The Spiritual Way: Book 4

    $14.95

    Around the year 1912, Mother Bolton of the Cenacle of St. Regis in New York began working on lessons for use in instructing novices entering the convent.  As she developed them further, she began using them to teach children as well as teachers of...

  • The Spiritual Way: Book 3

    Mother Margaret Bolton

    The Spiritual Way: Book 3

    $16.95

    Around the year 1912, Mother Bolton of the Cenacle of St. Regis in New York began working on lessons for use in instructing novices entering the convent.  As she developed them further, she began using them to teach children as well as teachers of...

  • The Spiritual Way: Book 2

    Mother Margaret Bolton

    The Spiritual Way: Book 2

    $16.95

    Around the year 1912, Mother Bolton of the Cenacle of St. Regis in New York began working on lessons for use in instructing novices entering the convent.  As she developed them further, she began using them to teach children as well as teachers of...

  • The Spiritual Way: Book 1

    Mother Margaret Bolton

    The Spiritual Way: Book 1

    $14.95

    Around the year 1912, Mother Bolton of the Cenacle of St. Regis in New York began working on lessons for use in instructing novices entering the convent.  As she developed them further, she began using them to teach children as well as teachers of...