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Saintly Tales and Legends

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The previous reviews are about a different book. STandL is not a comprehensive educational manual about the lives of saints. It is a beautifully illustrated collection of inspiring folk tales and saints' stories told in a manner that adults and children will enjoy. This would be a great gift book for ages eight on up, although my five-year-old enjoys having the stories read to him.

Update: I see that since my original review, Amazon has removed the reviews about a different book on the lives of saints.

This is a beautifully illustrated collection of stories about saints and faith-oriented legends. The text is easy to read and well-suited to children age 9 years on up to adults. The story-telling style is wonderful...a great book for big kids to read to their younger brothers and sisters, and for parents and teachers to share with their classes.

Someone gave this book to us when my daughter was baptized as an infant. It sat on our shelf for about 6 years until she took an interest in it. She LOVES the stories, and is starting to read it herself (although it is a little above her reading level). It's beautifully illustrated and the stories engage the imagination. I recently bought several copies to keep on hand for baptismal and first communion gifts.

The artwork is beautiful and imaginative, the stories can be read like folktales. This book is really beautiful. I used this as a tool for teaching saints in Catechism class, and loved the book so much I bought it for my own home. I've read this book to 1st graders and to fourth graders and both grades were fully engaged in the stories.

This is a wonderful treasury of stories there are tales of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, The Cinderella Saint, the story of the Three Trees, St. Nicholas, The fourth wiseman, the story of St. Francis and many more.