Author Topic: Good Books for Catholic Kids (Read 6358 times)

Sigismund · « **Reply #5 on:** July 12, 2011, 08:46:01 PM »

John Farrow's biography of Damien of Molokai.

MaterDominici · « **Reply #6 on:** July 13, 2011, 01:20:06 AM »

Quote from: Sigismund

John Farrow's biography of Damien of Molokai.

This one?

It looks a bit to hefty for my preschoolers, so perhaps I'll have to read it for myself. : )

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #7 on:** July 13, 2011, 01:36:50 AM »

Is there a book like Thomistic Philosophy Explained to Children?

A cousin of mine, a hyper-literate first-grader, keeps asking me things about reality, and I don't know how to answer his questions in a way that doesn't leave him staring off into space in a total blank.

Pyrrhos · « **Reply #8 on:** July 13, 2011, 01:46:30 AM »

Well, maybe this could help?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0025031007/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0025031007&linkCode=as2&tag=httpwwwchanco-20

Probably still a bit too much for a first-grader, but if your cousin has the same genes as you do, I am sure he will understand and probably even write a treatise on his own!

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #9 on:** July 13, 2011, 01:59:33 AM »

Mortimer J. Adler! I haven't read him in a decade or so! Brings back so many memories!

Thanks a lot for this!

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Probably still a bit too much for a first-grader, but if your cousin has the same genes as you do, I am sure he will understand and probably even write a treatise on his own!

:roll-laugh1:

His genes are way better than mine! His pedigree is daunting, to say the least (he's from a more distant branch of the family), and having been born into the upper class, he has all the resources I still do not have. I am trying to save him from the practical naturalism and materialism that is common for the present day privileged youth, but I am quite limited as I am bereft of any authority wherewith to do so. All I can do is try to answer questions with his parents' consent and set a good example.