a book for everyone

I Love You, Goodnight

I Love You, Goodnight is written by Jon Buller and Susan Schade. Every page is a colorful illustration with just a few words. It is a simple, but very sweet story-poem. It makes a great read aloud or bedtime story for little children. It does not present a particular worldview, accept that the relationship between the mother and daughter is encouraged and the reader is left cheerful and ready to face everything with a smile.

Little House On The Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote the book series, Little House On The Prairie. She wrote them in such a way that someone of any age could enjoy her writing, but her main audience is young girls who are as old as Laura was in the stories. The writing style is informal and great for reading to oneself or aloud to listeners. Wilder expects the readers to be able to enjoy a farm/country way of life as seen through a little girl's eyes. Most particularly, she writes to the Americans who are interested in the life of the pioneers; backwoods to a dug-out to wide open spaces to log cabins to a general store, Wilder does a great job keeping the attention of the reader and filling in the details that typify her family's life as a settler. Although the Christian worldview is not stated clearly, the Wilder family does go to church when they live in town and in general Christian morals are presented. These books are a fairly easy read and interesting at a very young age, which is great for the elementary- and middle school-age scholars.

Herodotus' Histories

Herodotus wrote his history tome for people ages 15 and up. Though his book is full of great descriptions and accounts of lifestyles, battle, and countryside, several of the topics are unsuitable for a young audience as some of the scenes are graphically portrayed (though not undue attention is spent on these sections). Most of the writing is fairly easy to comprehend, but its sheer volume disheartens even some of the most avid readers. The original intended readers lived in the ancient civilizations themselves, but Herodotus still takes the time to narrate everything that he sees and has memorized; the reader, no matter what nationality, does not need prior knowledge about the ancients before reading this book, as most everything is explained as the book progresses. A bit daunting, the 1,000+ pages are a treasure chest full of geographic location descriptions, interesting tid-bits, and historical facts to the inquisitive and motivated reader.