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Posted on January 27, 2013June 24, 2015 by Laura

The Railway Children

by E. Nesbit, first published 1906. "Very wonderful and beautiful things do happen, don't they? And we live most of our lives in the hope of them." While the brilliant author Edith Nesbit may be best known for her liberal use of magic and fantasy, not all her books include magic. In this very likeable book, The Railway Children, we discover something even more important than magic...We discover that even in difficult situations, there is magic to be found right in daily life, if we only have eyes to see it...

Posted on January 25, 2013June 12, 2024 by Laura

The Enchanted Castle

by E. Nesbit, first published 1907 "There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real." The quote for this children's book says it all. Edith Nesbit is a master of leading children from…

Posted on January 25, 2013June 12, 2024 by Laura

Momo

Published: 1973 Theme: The Value of Time Best for: ages 10 to adult "There's a place like the one you visited in every living soul, but only those who let me take them there can see it, nor can it be seen with ordinary eyes." If there was only one children's book I could put on the list of must-read, yet hardly known, children's books, it would have to be Momo. I fell in love with the book, despite the fact that when I first went to read it...

Posted on January 23, 2013September 30, 2014 by Laura

The Wise Enchanter: A Journey Through the Alphabet

by Shelley Davidow, published 2006 "Wisdom is fading in the world. Words are disappearing. The brightness in the sky is vanishing and the dark Cloud of Ignorance has grown suddenly dense." If I could use only one book to introduce early readers to the magic of learning to read, it would be this beautifully and…

Posted on January 22, 2013September 30, 2014 by Laura

The Lioness and her Knight

by Gerald Morris, published 2005 "To have arrived for an indefinite stay in this luxurious castle, where she would wear the finest clothes and most of all get to know a real enchantress, was more than Luneta could ever have hoped for." Here's an unusual story from Morris's wonderful collection of Squire Tale's. The heroine…

Posted on January 22, 2013September 30, 2014 by Laura

The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter

by Padraic Colum, first published 1920 Here's a children's book that not every young child will read, but having read it, I feel compelled to give it a place in the list of great children's books. For sure, it is for an older child, about 12. It has both a girl and boy as the…

Posted on January 22, 2013June 24, 2015 by Laura

The Squire’s Tale

By Gerald Morris, published 1998 "To forgive the unforgivable is the breath of life in this world." A brilliant retelling of some of the stories from Le Morte D'Arthur, author Morris begins his series of children's books about knights with this winning tale of Sir Gawain and his squire Terence. From beginning to end, the pace…

Posted on January 20, 2013January 25, 2016 by Laura

The World of Pooh

by A. A. Milne, First published 1926. "Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear! Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear"Who among us doesn't know the world of Winnie-the-Pooh? To read it is to be a child again, seeing the world with utter innocence and simplicity.

Posted on January 18, 2013September 30, 2014 by Laura

Parsifal’s Page

by Gerald Morris, published 2001 “As you have now learned, the things you achieve by your own mighty deeds have no value until they are thrown away. But the things worth keeping—those things are yours for the asking.” Parsifal’s Page is the book that launched this website. When I finished reading it, I was so…

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Category: Waldorf-Aligned

These books are aligned with Waldorf Education curriculum and principles. For more information on what I mean by that, please visit this page: What is Waldorf-Aligned?