Education in a Miseducated World: Mark your Calendars - Saturday June 22nd

How I so wish I was free to go this weekend!

Education in a Miseducated World: Mark your Calendars - Saturday June 22nd: The first ever St Louis Chesterton Education Conference is happening soon! When: Saturday, June 22nd, 2019, 8:45 - 4 PM Where: St Ansel...

Book List

I recently traveled to Sydney, Australia, and gave a few talks there on Frances Chesterton, my Father Brown books, and books to read aloud or that children might like. I drew this list from books our children and I liked as they grew up, plus some of the teens from the audience gave me some new suggestions. I had this as a handout, and thought others might be interested. This list is not in any kind of order, but maybe you'll find a new interesting book for your family to enjoy.

Nancy Brown’s Recommended Books and Book Lists

Jim Trelease The Read Aloud Handbook

Honey for a Child’s Heart by Gladys Hunt

A Landscape With Dragons: The Battle for Your Child’s Mind by Michael O’Brien 

Classics to Read Aloud to your Childrenby William Russell

The Read Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie

JRRTolkein The Hobbit and LOTR series

C.S. Lewis Narnia series

Tomie de Paola

Aesops Fables

E. Nesbit Railway Children

Louisa May Alcott Little Women

L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables

& Emily of New Moon

Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

Michael Ende The Neverending Story

Corduroyby Don Freeman

Swiss Family Robinsonby Johann David Wyss

Lewis Carol Alice in Wonderland

Jack London Call of the Wildand White Fang

Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island

Rudyard Kipling Jungle Book

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

E.B. White Charlotte’s Web

Lynne Reid Banks The Indian in the Cupboard

P.L. Travers Mary Poppins

Anna Sewell Black Beauty

Beverly Cleary The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Mary Norton The Borrowers

Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit

A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh

Herge TinTin

Jan Brett The Mittenetc.

Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth

The Penderwicks series

Beverly Cleary Ramona Quimby

Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairieseries

E.B. White Stuart Little

Esther Hoskins Forbes Johnny Tremain

E.L. Konigsburg From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Ludwig Bemelmans Madelineetc.

Crockett Johnson Harold and the Purple Crayon

Classic Starts: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Classic Starts: The Three Musketeers etc.

The Father Brown Reader: Stories from Chesterton

Betty MacDonald Mrs. Piggle Wiggleetc.

Andrew Clements Frindleetc.

Carolyn Keene Nancy Drew

Franklin W. Dixon Hardy Boys

Donald Sobol Encyclopedia Brown

Gary Paulsen Hatchet

Patricia Mac Lachlan Sarah, Plain and Tall

Marguerite Henry Misty of Chincoteagueetc.

Kate DiCamillo Because of Winn Dixie

Charles and Mary Lamb Tales From Shakespeare

Mary Fabyan Windeatt Saint books (Rose of Lima, Martin de Porres, etc.)

Henriette Eugénie Delamare The Little Apostle on Crutches

Johanna Spyri Heidi

P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories.

John Dickson Carr

William McCleery Wolf Story

Margaret Stanger That Quail, Robert

Nate the Greatby Marjorie Sharmat

Meg Mackintoshby Lucinda Landon

Cam Jansenby David A. Adler

A to Z mysteries by Ron Roy

The Princess and the Goblin, by George MacDonald

Emily Rodda

M.L. Forman Adventurers Wanted Series

Elyne Mitchell Silver Brumby series

Gone Away Lakeby Elizabeth Enright

Megan Turner, Queen’s Thief series

Robin McKinley The Blue Sword

Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith

The Red Wallby Brian Jacques

And the book that made me a writer:

Louise FitzHugh Harriet the Spy

Poetry to Read

The Night Before Christmas

Evangeline

Lepanto

Jack Prelutsky Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young

James Berry Classic Poems to Read Aloud

Dr. Seuss

Favorite Poems of Childhood Dover Children’s Thrift Classics

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#44 on amazon best seller list?

I'm amazed to find this! https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Books-20th-Century-Literary-Criticism/zgbs/books/11764674011

Read Aloud Revival Podcast!

I had a totally fun and awesomely inspiring time with Sarah Mackenzie of Read Aloud Revival doing a podcast about Chesterton and kids and reading aloud--all my favorite subjects!

You can hear the podcast by clicking here. Let me know what you think!




Read-Aloud Revival with Sarah Mackenzie

Frances Chesterton photograph

During a search of British Newspapers, Dale Ahlquist came across this and sent it to me. I discovered while working on the biography of Frances Chesterton that she had been asked to help found a club called The Lyceum for women who were writers or authors and who had attended college. Here is the picture that goes with that story! Frances has the fur collar (a frequent item in her dress) and is standing behind, second from the left, dark hat. The year is 1904. It was founded by Constance Smedley, sitting in front of Frances. (Click on the photo to enlarge and see it better.)

Milwaukee Chesterton Academy Gala

I was honored and privileged to be able to speak at the gala for the Milwaukee Chesterton Society last weekend.

Frances Chesterton Talk

In this talk, I concentrate on Frances Chesterton's literary ancestry, and how it helped propel G.K. Chesterton into stardom. We also discuss Frances' sister-in-law Ada Jones, as well as a number of famous literary figures of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.