Read-aloud Books

Rev. Jerome D. Hannan

Teacher Tells a Story: Book Two

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...

Rev. Jerome D. Hannan

Teacher Tells a Story: Book One

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...

Rev. George M. Dennerle

Leading the Little Ones to Christ

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...

Mother Margaret Bolton

The Spiritual Way: Book 3

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...

Mother Margaret Bolton

The Spiritual Way: Book 2

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...

Mother Margaret Bolton

The Spiritual Way: Book 1

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...

Mother Mary Loyola

Jesús de Nazaret

    Para despertar y dirigir el sentimiento religioso, moral y artístico de los niños y jóvenes, no sabemos que pueda ponerse en sus manos nada más á propósito que esta relación, sencillamente...

Msgr. William R. Kelly

Our Sacraments

    Instructions in Story Form for Use in the Primary Grades Follow Tom and Ann as they learn about the Sacraments from their Uncle John.  What is grace, and how do we get it?  And how do the Sacraments help us?  What are the...

Sister Mary Gertrude

Catholic Nursery Rhymes

    This Benziger Brothers classic from 1925 is a delightful collection of rhymes, each beginning with a successive letter of the alphabet, which tell the story of the Alpha and Omega from A to Z.  Full of color illustrations and designed...

E. Vincent Wareing

An Alphabet of the Altar

      This is perhaps the most beautiful book we have come across in a long time, and it was a labor of love to reprint it for you.  Each lavishly illustrated page is mesmerizing in its detail but even more so for its love 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...

Mother Mary Loyola

The Soldier of Christ

      Any book on the sacrament of Confirmation can explain what Confirmation is, but this is the only book that explains, in the most original and engaging manner, what Confirmation does.  It is both a dialogue and a travelogue,...