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Bed time for the young child.  It may be a happy moment of sharing or a life and death struggle.  Indeed, bedtime for children between one and six may be a little like death for they live in the present moment and have little sense of tomorrow. This is one reason why the end of a

Dr. Pamela Mitchell-Legg, professor of Christian Education at the Union Presbyterian Seminary Charlotte campus, continues to teach her course on children’s and adolescents’ literature that was the impetus for this blog.  As we move into Advent and Christmas, she

Dr. Pamela Mitchell-Legg, professor at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Charlotte, teaches a course on using children’s and adolescent literature in the church.  (It was her students’ work that provided the push to get this blog going!)  She offers a gift of a

Librarian and regular reviewer Janet Lloyd offers a collection of suggestions for Christmas reading with elementary students. Click on the link below to print these bibliographies.  And don’t forget, we would love to hear your suggestions for books to use with this age group. 

Librarian and regular reviewer Janet Lloyd offers a collection of suggestions for Christmas reading with young children through preschoolers. Click on the link below to print this bibliography.  And don’t forget, we would love to hear your suggestions for books to use with

We’re not quite in  Advent yet, but for all of those who hope to share books with your family or congregation during the season, we’re giving you a head start on securing them. For the next two weeks, we will be posting a series of bibliographies of Christmas books

Righteousness is a hard concept for young people to grasp. The following books are intended to help shed light on this concept so critical to living according to God’s plan. There are many scriptural references to living a righteous life. Janet Lloyd, librarian and guest

Sometimes after a particular book review, we get emails asking for other suggestions about books on that same topic.  While it isn’t always possible to reply individually to ever question, we do save those questions and work on developing bibliographies to share with our

Last week, we mentioned that we would not generally pair a children’s book with the reading from the Psalms in our Lectionary Links posts.  We did post a bibliography last week of some book resources on the Psalms for children, and this week, we’d like to share with

You may have noticed that our lectionary links do not include books that related to the passages from Psalms.  However, there are many wonderful books for children which bring the Psalms alive.   We are attaching a bibliography here that will point you to some good books for