Living Books Archives - Northern Nester

Caleb’s Lamb | Living Book Review

Caleb’s Lamb by Helen Santos is one of the greatest gems in our collection of children’s stories. Scripture is full of sheep and shepherd imagery: …

A couple of months ago, I recommended the book Portraits of Integrity by Marilyn Boyer and Grace Tumas. Marilyn read my review and stuck a …

One of the books we enjoyed reading for science this year was A Piece of the Mountain: The Story of Blaise Pascal by Joyce McPherson. …

Charlotte Mason says that “education is the science of relations.” The connections we make between one thing and another are evidence of what …

Little Britches was recommended to me by three of my friends, and it didn’t even take an entire chapter to understand its appeal. …

One of our sons turns ten in a few days, so that’s about how old our copy of Journey Through The Night by Anne De …

Of all the biographies my parents read to us as kids, Nothing Daunted: The Story of Isobel Kuhn by Gloria Repp is probably the one …

I was happy to find a copy of The Secret of the Village Fool by Rebecca Upjohn at the thrift store the other day! …

Tony Hutter’s 5-book series, Spurgeon Stories For Children, is a favorite of ours! We bought them a few years ago and they have proved to …

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare was one of my favorite family read-alouds as a kid, and I’m thrilled that our older kids loved …