Tales of the Kingdom
10 best books like Tales of the Kingdom (David R. Mains): Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, Kingdom's Hope, The Tower of Geburah, Mandie and the Forbidden Attic, The Light Princess, Treasures of the Snow, The World's Best Fairy Tales, Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales, The Devil's Storybook, The Ale Boy's Feast
| Author | Peter Roop |
| ISBN | 0613535189 |
Wow, this one takes me back. I remember "watching" this book on Reading Rainbow as a child. Even reading it now, I can still "hear" the seafaring music that played in the background. I had no idea it took place in Maine (my home state), though I guess it shouldn't surprise me. It's a story of a girl who has to...
| Author | Chuck Black |
| ISBN | 1590526805 |
A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible
Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory! In Kingdom’s Dawn, Leinad and Tess, along with all the king’s people, must escape slavery by the powerful Lord Fairos. Kingdom’s Hope finds...
| Author | John White |
| ISBN | 0877845603 |
The Archives of Anthropos are essentially a poor imitation of The Chronicles of Narnia, originally written at the request of theologian John White's children for a story that was "just like Narnia."
Unfortunately, while C.S. Lewis was a mythologist first and a theologian second, White is...
Mandie and the Forbidden Attic
| Author | Lois Gladys Leppard |
| ISBN | 0871238225 |
About this book:
“What can be causing the mysterious noises in the school attic? How can Mandie and her friends find out without getting into trouble?”
Series: Book #4 in “Mandie” series. (Read #1’s review Here! #2 Here! And #3 Here!) {There also is the “Young Mandie...
| Author | George MacDonald |
| ISBN | 1596440430 |
The Light Princess is a short story that is warm and humorous, with a surprisingly poignant conclusion. A princess doomed by a witch to lose her “gravity” results in a silly heroine that has neither physical nor spiritual weight. George MacDonald’s masterful teaching on the subject of sacrificial...
| Author | Patricia St. John |
| ISBN | 0802465757 |
A story of vicious revenge and hard repentance
Annette and Lucien are enemies. After Annette gets Lucien into trouble at school, he decides to get back at her by threatening the most precious thing in the world to her: her little brother Dani. But tragedy strikes. Annette is so filled with rage...
| Author | Belle Becker Sideman |
| ISBN | 0895770784 |
Contents
Jorinda and Joringel
Puss in Boots
The Emperor's New Clothes
Billy Beg and His Bull
Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes
The Red Shoes
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Snegourka, the Snow Maiden
The Three Little Pigs
The Shoemaker and...
| Author | Tasha Tudor |
| ISBN | 0448442000 |
Many of the classic fairy tales are included in this wonderful compilation; including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Thumbelina, Rumpelstiltskin, The Emperor's New Clothes and a few others, some not as well known.
Each page is decorated with lovely painted borders...
| Author | Natalie Babbitt |
| ISBN | 0374417083 |
There are more ways than one to view the Devil and his works. In this collection of ten original stories, Natalie Babbitt offers us a middle-aged Old Scratch with a tender ego, proud of Hell and anxious for his reputation; a plotter at once pompous and naive who has a way of losing as often as he wins. Nothing...
| Author | Jeffrey Overstreet |
| ISBN | 1400074681 |
Book 4 of the Auralia Thread series
The king is missing.
His people are trapped as the woods turn deadly.
Underground, the boy called Rescue has found an escape.
Hopes are failing across The Expanse. The forests, once beautiful, are now haunted and bloodthirsty. House...
| Author | Jeri Massi |
| ISBN | 1532965567 |
Princess Rosalynn is pretty, spoiled, and childish. She gives no thought to the men and women that protect her father's throne. Then one day, invaders from the enormous kingdom across the river storm across the Bridge and conquer the royal castle. Alone and in danger, Rosalynn sets out on foot to find...
| Author | Gilbert L. Morris |
| ISBN | 0802436838 |
As Gilbert Morris' The Seven Sleepers series continues, I'm a little bit worried they're going to become formulaic as the sleepers travel from one land to another, facing down a threat, winning, all while learning a moral. In book three, The Sword of Camelot, Morris falls directly into this particular...
| Author | Max Lucado |
| ISBN | 1581345224 |
* 4.6 Stars*
Scorecard:
(Out of 10)
* Quality of Writing - 8
* Pace - 8
* Plot development - 9
* Characters - 9
* Enjoyability -9
* Insightfulness - 10
* Ease of Reading - 10
* Photos/Illustrations - 10
Final Score: 73/80 = 91%
*WARNING: I will be...
| Author | Mary Martha Sherwood |
| ISBN | 1584740116 |
After a devotional study of the Hebrew word "shamar"(a primitive root) and its Greek equivalents, which included an in-depth look at most of the scriptures containing multiple nuances of its meaning, I began to mull over various applications.
While taking a breather, I was surprised to find...
| Author | Hannah Hurnard |
| ISBN | 0842346112 |
I liked this book enough that it has been my before-bed reading for the past few weeks, but it's not one I would read again, nor did I find anything particularly outstanding about it. It is a sequel to Hurnard's Hinds' Feet on High Places, which I liked a lot; I've also read Hurnard's Winged Life, which I gave...
Bartholomew's Passage: A Family Story for Advent
| Author | Arnold Ytreeide |
| ISBN | 1569553378 |
In hard-to-put-down chapters, this engaging story takes readers through Advent to Christmas as they follow young Bartholomew on his adventures. You will accompany this delightful boy from the time Roman soldiers destroy his village and disperse his family, through his enslavement to a tyrannical...
| Author | Robin Hardy |
| ISBN | 0891098364 |
At the age of 10, Chataine Deirdre was assigned a soldier Guardian named Roman. At first the two despised each other and Deirdre looked for ways to get her young guard in trouble. But as the years wore on and the young princess grew into a beautiful young lady, she began to have deeper, and forbidden feelings...
| Author | Catherine F. Vos |
| ISBN | 0802850111 |
I'm pretty sensitive to the "voice" of a story when I'm reading to my kids. From several years of experience presenting children's storytimes at the public library, I developed a keen awareness of when my audience was engaged and when I was "losing them."
So, when I read Bible story books to my...
