Happy Poetry Month! In an effort to have more poetry in my life and my children's lives, I decided to get a book of poetry just for them (ok, and for me too). I first borrowed a copy from the library. But after reading it with my kids (my three-year-old son especially seemed to love …
In my trek to revisit classic literature (and read the books I was supposed to have read and...didn't), I've finally made my way back to Dickens, specifically to one of his greats: A Tale of Two Cities. I remember trying to read this book in high school. I didn't make it past the first page. …
If you want to know more about the history of Christianity, the truth of the Reformation (as reform, not rebellion) with the events unfolding from it, and how important sound doctrine is, as well as holding fast to that confession despite cultural changes and strong dissenters, then this is the book for you.
While the book may appear at first to be an old-fashioned quest wrapped up in a time-traveling historical fiction novel, A Connecticut Yankee somehow manages to be more than that.
Though this small child is thrown into a harsh, unloving world, he is not abandoned, for he has a Father who truly loves him and sends His people and creatures along his path to guide him to safe pasture. You will laugh, you will cry, and you will see the blessings of God in this little adventure from chapter to chapter.
Madelyn Rose Craig 