If you, like me, had very little to no Thomistic Philosophy in high school or college, and would love to know more, this book is for you. What a pleasure for me it has been to read Aquinas 101 in preparation for this review. The book brings forth a surprisingly readable and sometimes funny Saint Thomas!
To begin, I quote from the publisher's site, Ave Maria Press:
This is a little more than a coloring book, as it elaborates a bit on each of the eight beatitudes Our Lord presented on the Sermon of the Mount.
Each double spread displays a negative and a positive attitude one can have about each beatitude-- called the "me" and the "be" attitude respectively:
The illustrations are simply done, and there are a few pages of activities in the end, such as a maze and a dot-to-dot. This inexpensive and friendly coloring book will serve as a good enrichment for a religious curriculum, especially for coloring-loving children!
If any writer today can squeeze the meaning of life into a small 64 page booklet, the popular and prolific author Peter Kreeft can! The book is short, brief, almost laconic. One can throw it into the purse or even the pocket. And yet, the Pocket Guide to the Meaning of Life has it all: the truth of who we are, why we are here, where we are going, and how to get there.
NOTE: A more recent edition of this syllabus was published in 2007 - this review is based on the 2003 edition.
This syllabus outlines a complete year of study in British Literature intended for 12th graders.
Books used in this course:
Required:
The Harp and Laurel Wreath by Laura Berquist
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Primary Works of Literature:
This is essentially The Ignatius Bible (Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition) which presents a helpful and reasonable middle ground between the older translations which feature "archaic" language (which is less accessible to many readers) and more modern translations which usually feature "inclusive" language (which distorts both the meaning and the beauty of the language).
I love picture books, especially ones with warm, colorful, sweet illustrations. I love rhythmic, poetic language, made simple and accessible to children, and I love truly multicultural books!
This book brings all of these elements together, added to the universal theme of the sacrament of Matrimony. I couldn't help but love it at first sight--or at first reading.
Our family is crazy about picture books, saints books *and* alphabet books: this fantastic new publication fits all of the above. In fact, it was some time after my order arrived before I could get my hands on it: a Catholic homeschool mother who was over visiting opened the package and enjoyed reading it with a large sample size of our children before I could even see it!
Great Estimations is an eye-popping introduction to the art of, or perhaps the science of, mathematical estimation. Bold colors and clear photographs are used to demonstrate simple, concrete approaches to an abstract mathematical concept. Penguins and pennies. Jelly beans and elbow macaroni. Plastic shoes and paper clips. Practice the techniques for eye training and the methods for clump counting and box counting. Then you can estimate how many of them there are - maybe before your young student does!
Our third child, now a deep voiced high schooler towering me by several inches, learned to read with me when he was five years old using these little folding readers. This new edition has a new cover and some additional materials, but the readers themselves are the very same I used ten years ago! He looked at these the other day and could remember many of the stories.
This little book is deceptively slim yet bursting with wisdom, original prayers, advice and the encouragement of one who knows.