Read-aloud Books

Highway to Heaven Series

The Magnificat Readers: Fourth 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...

Clare Dawson

Loving & Giving

“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...

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 Margaret Bolton

God's Hour in the Nursery Package

      God's Hour in the Nursery is a pair of books for teacher and student that are designed to introduce the youngest children to the first lessons of the Baltimore Catechism--namely, those related to creation and the life of the...

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...

Sister Mary Aurelia and Rev. Felix M. Kirsch

Practical Aids for Catholic Teachers

    Imagine going back in time and asking a group of the best Catholic Teachers for some of their most successful methods for teaching the Faith to little ones...This is just what the authors of this book have in effect done!  In the late...

Mother Mary Loyola

The King of the Golden City

      The book that began it all... Mother Mary Loyola had used the simple allegory of a little maid and the gracious King who deigned to visit her as a catechetical tool for many years...a brief sketch of this story appears in 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...

Mother Mary Loyola

First Communion

      Around the year 1890, a rather extraordinary nun began writing a very extraordinary book: one that would help children prepare for the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist. It would revolutionize children's catechesis by making the teachings...