Catholic Tales for Boys and Girls [Paperback]

Leslie Silk Eslinger (Author), Caryll Houselander (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up

Tales about Catholic children to form your own little ones in holy wisdom and piety.

Caryll Houselander is best known for the intensity of her vision of the suffering Christ and His immeasurable love for us, a theme that she frequently spoke of with breathtaking luminosity in her many books about him.

Few know, however, of the many remarkable stories she wrote for Catholic children — delightful tales that are simple but not shallow. Indeed, like her books for adults, they maifest a tender love of Christ and His little ones not commonly found among us these days.

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About the Author

Caryll Houslander (1901-1954) was the aughor of more than fifteen books and hundreds of articles while she continued to paint, draw, carve, and teach art to troubled children. Among her most famous books are The Reed of God and This War is the Passion. In them, readers can glimpse the healing compassion toward others that she learned by bearing her own sufferings and through her identification with the sufferings of Christ.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Sophia Institute Press (November 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1928832741
• ISBN-13: 978-1928832744
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #221,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Priceless!, April 16, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Catholic Tales for Boys and Girls (Paperback)

We use this book as a bedtime read aloud. Each story takes about 10-15 min. to read aloud. My kids, ages 3-14, never tire of hearing the stories. They are well written, moving, enjoyable and character-building all at the same time. Each story has a beautiful message without being preachy. And the heroes and heroines are children. Highly recommended!

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars heartily disagree with quo primum..great book for catholic children, March 13, 2009

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Valerie Ponce (Abingdon, Va USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Catholic Tales for Boys and Girls (Paperback)

I have had these books for my children for the past year, and I love them so much I'm ordering them for a friend of mine's little girl for her birthday--out of curiosity I read the reviews posted on this site, and was surprised and a little irritated by the one negative review---I felt I should weigh in with my opinion for what it's worth. I found these stories to be appropriate for young children with interesting stories of children told from a Catholic perspective. Initially I was leary about these books, because so often Catholic literature written in this time period, tends to be so saccharine and hokey and not something that children today can relate to. This was NOT the case with these books. The stories are beautiful, sometimes so moving I was in tears while reading aloud. I'm extremely sensitive to violent themes, and nothing in this book bothered me at all, and I'm not at all sure where the reviewer came up with sorcery as a theme in this book, unless he/she is anti-catholic and of a persuasion that feels catholic values and practices are intrinsically evil....I have run into a few of those types of people. But I digress. For those of you looking for good literature to read aloud to your children that emphasizes Catholic values and the faith, while at the same time being entertaining and often inciting great conversations afterward, I can't recommend this book enough.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good gift!, December 28, 2006

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Mrs. B. Lyall (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Catholic Tales for Boys and Girls (Paperback)

The stories in this book are great stories that interest and inspire the reader. Charming, sweet and yet all with good humour and without any irreverence, this book makes an excellent gift for birthdays, Christmas, or if you home educate like me, it's a great book to just have and read at story time in class. It's style is simple and yet entertaining, and the age guide for 9-12 years is good but it could be read aloud to children as young as 4, depending on their attention span. As an adult, I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned from it. Hope others enjoy it as much as my family has!