January 1st, Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Mother of God (New) and Circumcision of Our Lord (Trad.):
- Virgin Mary (Saints and Angels) by Claire Llewellyn
- Mary: Mother of Jesus by Mary Joslin (study guide in Catholic Mosaic)
- Take it to the Queen: A Tale of Hope by Josephine Nobisso
- Mary by Demi
- Solemnity of Mother of God – Protectress (Mother of God Coloring Book)
- Mary, Mother of God (Mondays With Mary, I own the first edition) by Meredith Henning
January 2nd, St. Basil the Great (New):
- Saint Basil (Saints: Lives and Illuminations) by Ruth Sanderson
- St. Basil the Great (Picture Book of Saints)
January 3rd, Most Holy Name of Jesus (New):
January 3rd, St. Genevieve (Hist.):
- Saint Genevieve (Saints: Lives and Illuminations) by Ruth Sanderson
- St. Genevieve (Once Upon a Time Saints) by Ethel Pochocki
- Saint Genevieve (Saints for Girls – also available from TAN/Neumann Press) by Susan Weaver
- Genevieve, the Shepherdess from The Golden Legend of Young Saints
January 4th, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (New):
- Elizabeth Seton (Around the Year Once Upon a Time Saints) by Ethel Pochocki
- St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (Lives of the Saints: An Illustrated History for Children) by Bart Tesoriero
- Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (More Saints: Lives and Illuminations) by Ruth Sanderson
- E – St. Elizabeth (An Alphabet of Catholic Saints) by Nippert
- Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity (Vision) by Alma Power-Waters
- A Story of Mother Elizabeth Seton by Brother Ernest (Neumann Press – also available from TAN)
- Kat Finds a Friend: A St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Story by Joan Stromberg
January 4th, St. Pharaildis:
- Pharaildis (More Once Upon a Time Saints) by Ethel Pochocki
January 4th, St. Rigobert:
- Rigobert (More Once Upon a Time Saints) by Ethel Pochocki
January 5th, St. John Neumann (New):
- John Neumann (Around the Year Once Upon a Time Saints) by Ethel Pochocki
- St. John Neumann (Lives of the Saints: An Illustrated History for Children) by Bart Tesoriero
- “Do whatever He tells you.” Saint John Neumann by Brenda and George Nippert
- Thomas finds a Treasure: A St. John Neumann Story by Joan Stromberg
January 5th, Twelfth Night (The Twelve Days of Christmas):
- The Twelve Days of Christmas by Jan Brett
- The Twelve Days of Christmas by Laurel Long
- The Twelve Days of Christmas by Gennady Spirin
- The Twelve Days of Christmas: A Christmas Carol (A Little Golden Book)
- The Twelve Days of Christmas: The Story Behind a Favorite Christmas Song
- Twelve Days of Christmas Stained Glass Coloring Book
- The Thirteen Days of Christmas by Jenny Overton
- The Little Match Girl by H. Thury (study guide in Catholic Mosaic)
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| The Twelve Days of Christmas by Laurel Long |
January 6th, Epiphany of the Lord (New, Trad) Sts. Caspar, Balthasar & Melchior, the Three Wise Men (Hist.):
(In the United States this feast is celebrated on the first Sunday following January 1st)
- Babushka and the Three Kings by Ruth Robbins
- Small Camel Follows the Star by Rachel Brown
- The Third Gift by Linda Sue Park
- We Three Kings by Gennady Spirin
- The Last Straw by Fredrick Thury (study guide in Catholic Mosaic)
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| Small Camel Follows the Star by Rachel Brown |
January 13th, Baptism of the Lord (Trad.):
- Saint Nina (Saints: Lives and Illuminations) by Ruth Sanderson
January 14th, St. Kentigern:
- Kentigern (More Once Upon a Time Saints) by Ethel Pochocki
January 14th , St. Felix of Nola:
- Saint Felix and the Spider by Dessi Jackson
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| Saint Felix and the Spider by Dessi Jackson |
January 15th, St. Paul – The First Hermit (Trad.)
- St. Paul and St. Anthony: The First Hermits (The Book of Saints & Heroes) by Andrew Lang
January 17th, St. Anthony of Egypt (New, Trad.)
- Saint Anthony (Saints: Lives and Illuminations) by Ruth Sanderson
- St. Paul and St. Anthony: The First Hermits (The Book of Saints & Heroes) by Andrew Lang
January 20th, St. Sebastian (New, Trad.)
- St. Sebastian (Saints and Angels) by Claire Llewellyn
- St. Sebastian (Lives of the Saints: An Illustrated History for Children) by Bart Tesoriero
- S- St. Sebastian (An Alphabet of Saints) by Robert Hugh Benson (Neumann Press)
January 21st, St. Agnes (New, Trad.):
- St. Agnes (Saints and Angels) by Claire Llewellyn
- Saint Agnes (Saints for Girls – also available from TAN/Neumann Press) by Father Gales
- Saint Agnes by M.R. Berardi (OOP – from my childhood collection)
- Beautiful Saint Agnes from The Golden Legend of Young Saints
January 21st, Our Lady of Altagracia:
- A Gift of Gracias: The Legend of Altagracia by Julia Alvarez (study guide in Catholic Mosaic)
January 23rd, Espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Hist.):
- Betrothal of Mary to Saint Joseph (Mondays With Mary, I own the first edition) by Meredith Henning
January 24th, St. Francis de Sales (New) (Trad. – Jan 29th):
- St. Francis de Sales (Lives of the Saints: An Illustrated History for Children) by Bart Tesoriero
- Saint Francis de Sales (More Saints: Lives and Illuminations) by Ruth Sanderson
January 25th, The Conversion of St. Paul (New, Trad.):
- Paul (Lives and Legends of Saints) by Carole Armstrong
- St. Paul (Saints and Angels) by Claire Llewellyn
- The Great Hero: St. Paul the Apostle
- Adventures of St. Paul by Oldrich Selucky
- St. Paul The Apostle by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
- The First Christians: The Acts of the Apostles for Children by Marigold Hunt
- On the Road to Damascus from Golden Legend of Young Saints
January 26th, St. Paula (Hist.):
- Saint Paula & Saint Jerome (Saints: Lives and Illuminations) by Ruth Sanderson
January 27th, St. Angela Merici (New) (Trad. – June 1st):
- Saint Angela Mereci (More Saints: Lives and Illuminations) by Ruth Sanderson
January 27th, St. John Chrysostom (Trad.) (New – Sep. 13th):
- Saint John Chrysostom (Saints: Lives and Illuminations) by Ruth Sanderson
January 28th, St. Thomas Aquinas (New) (Trad. – Mar. 7th):
- Thomas Aquinas (Around the Year Once Upon a Time Saints) by Ethel Pochocki
- St. Thomas Aquinas (Saints and Angels) by Claire Llewellyn
- St. Thomas Aquinas (Lives of the Saints: An Illustrated History for Children) by Bart Tesoriero
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (More Saints: Lives and Illuminations) by Ruth Sanderson
- St. Thomas Aquinas by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
- St. Thomas Aquinas and the Preaching Beggars (Vision) by Brendan Larnen, OP and Milton
- The Quiet Light: A Novel about St. Thomas Aquinas by Louis de Wohl (Note: This is not a children’s book, but I have really enjoyed reading the saint novels by Louis de Wohl.)
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| Saint Thomas Aquinas – Lives of the Saints: An Illustrated History for Children |
January 29th, St. Francis de Sales (Trad.) (New – Jan 24th):
See January 24th for booklist.
January 31st, St. John Bosco (New, Trad.):
- A Story of John Bosco by Brother Ernest (Neumann Press – also available from TAN)
- St. John Bosco by Kathleen Pearce
- St. John Bosco and Saint Dominic Savio (Vision) by Catherine Beebe
- St. John Bosco Mission to Love DVD
Other Links for January:
Links for January :: Month Dedicated to the Most Holy Name of Jesus
Thank you for writing out a list of the special books that teach our holy faith! God reward your efforts kind woman. I am looking forward to sharing the titles with our church librarian, too. These are just delightful!
What a great list! One of my sisters used to have the St. Agnes book by M.R. Berardi. I wish that I could find a copy for our collection. May God bless you and your beautiful family!
Jessica! Great list as usual and I have some great resources for my little Sebastian Paul. We have some selections already on Sebastian…but I haven't gotten anything on Paul yet…so here I go to look and buy! And as we speak, I am making the Partridge in the Pear tree pie you posted. Our grocery stores were nuts here today! (big storm coming), but we ventured out and got the little bit that we needed for a 12th night party! Kids (and I) can't wait! HUGS for always giving us great resources!
I do love these posts:) love the lists, love the pics:)
Carla
I have a Sebastian Vianney:) What books have you got on Sebastian? I have none:(
You are welcome! Thank you for the kind comment!
Thanks, Christine! God bless you and your family too!
I hope you enjoy the pie, Carla, and the Twelfth Night party! We are fighting colds/coughs, but I am still hoping that I can pull it together once again for my family this year… It was so much fun!
Erin – We don't have it yet (just a few of the other books in the series that are all great) but there is A Story of Saint Sebastian in the In the Footsteps of the Saints Series by Brother Ernest.
Also, now that the Neumann Press books are back in print, Blessed Sebastian and the Oxen and A Story of St. John Vianney are both excellent! (We have both… Blessed Sebastian is based on the story of Blessed Sebastian of Aparicio whose memorial is celebrated in February.) My kids love all the books in the Saints and Friendly Beasts Series. Are you able to get these over there in Australia?
Thank you Erin! These posts are so much work to pull together, but they will sure be a nice reference to have when I need to pull out books for the month or find a story for a particular saint! I'm really hoping that I can complete a post for each month this year. We'll see! 🙂
I've never thought of putting together book collections for the feasts/saints each month. But it's a great idea! I wonder though, are all your books purchased? It's a lot of books to purchase each month. Or do you just purchase a few at a time, and over time eventually have the collection listed? Any tips?
I love all your book lists! Thank you for sharing them with us!
Jessica
just bought 4 books including St John Mary Vianney, of the Life of a Saint Series by Ignatius, Magnificat. Highly, highly recommend these!!! just checked out my favourite place to buy books (free postage) Book Depository and notice they have St Sebastian in stock- though his St is Sebastian the soldier
yes I often find when I write posts like this they are helpful for myself. Often use my own blog as a resource:)
Those are excellent! My MIL sent them to the kids for Christmas a couple years ago. Last February we read the St. Bernadette book to go along with our Cocoa Pebble Grotto and hot cocoa! I'm hoping they come out with more for the series.
You are welcome, Kathy! I have always loved books 🙂 Even though they take time, I really enjoy putting these posts together to share with you all!
Yes, all the books listed in my book posts are books we own, unless it is noted otherwise (you will find occasional library books in past Christmas and Thanksgiving book lists). Some are picture books, some are chapter books, and some of the stories are excerpts from collections of saint stories (i.e. there are many stories taken from Saints and Angels, Once Upon a Time Saints, Picture Book of Saints, etc) . This is not a complete list of all the saints books we own… We also read from Saints for Young People Every Day of the Year (most nights at dinner time) and others as well.
Our collection started very small, with mostly Father Lovasik books – which I haven't added to my lists yet – and over the last 14 years I've continued to purchase books for our home.
The only books on this list that are new this year are Saint Felix and the Spider (It was just published last November and our 6 year old received it for Christmas!) and a couple of the Mary Fabyan Windeatt books that I purchased with a gift card from TAN!
Let's see… Tips… If I was just beginning our collection, I would look through the list and choose a feast day or two that I wanted to teach my children more about this month and buy a couple books for our collection. If I couldn't afford to buy any new books I would either check them out from the library or request the library to purchase them if they are not available locally (our library has a great online form for this purpose and I've used it many times in the past). I always start with the feast days of my children's patron saints, or other saints that share their name.
I have one bookshelf in my hallway that holds most of our saint books. At the beginning of each month I fill the basket and place it next to the couches in the living room. Most mornings I will find some of the children sitting on the couch reading the various books on their own or to their younger siblings! ♥
This is a fabulous resource list, Jessica! A piece of work to put together I know, but a blessing to so many in turn! God bless you!
Are your kids reading The Quiet Light or is that for the adults (or a read aloud)? It's probably my favorite de Wohl, but a little, er, intense in parts.
And thanks so much for mentioning Saint Felix – hope you enjoy it. 🙂
Thank you so much for this post. Could you tell me if the book, The Twelve Days of Christmas: The Story Behind a Favorite Christmas Song is accurate and in accord with our Catholic faith? Thank you!
Whether or not the legend is true, I've enjoyed sharing it with my children and discussing the symbolism that has been attached to the various days! A number of years ago, before we had this book, we even made a Lap Book on the topic!
The Twelve Days of Christmas: The Story Behind a Favorite Christmas Song is published by Zondervan and the bible quotes are from the NIV…. I do wish there was a similar book written and published by a Catholic author.
I haven't found anything contrary to the Catholic faith, but there are a couple little things that I would have changed. . . First, at the bottom of the page for the Ten Lords A-Leaping, where it lists a bible quote from Exodus 20:2-17, quoting the ten commandments, I wish they would have listed each commandment on it's own line. There are ten lines total, but the last five commandments are crammed on the last three lines, and the first first two commandments are given the first four lines (with a line each for numbers 3-5). I think it's a little confusing.
The only other thing I've noticed that I didn't like was that when it lists The Apostles Creed for the 12 Drummers Drumming it reads "I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints… instead of "I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints…"
Other than those two little complaints I think it's a lovely book and one I plan to keep for our personal collection.
Thank you, Kimberlee! I don't think my oldest is quite ready to read the de Wohl books yet…. I sure love them though and couldn't resist including them in my list of Saints books. Our oldest three will each be choosing one or two of the Vision or Windeatt books to read this month. I'm hoping to find the time to re-read The Quiet Light! It has been awhile!
We have already been enjoying Saint Felix and the Spider and look forward to seeing more titles from the Illustrator (and author) in the future! 🙂
Jessica,
I also had Saint Agnes by M.R. Berardi when I was a child. Maybe you could work your magic by posting some pictures from the book on her feast day to encourage a re-print! I haven't seen a book as beautiful as it and can still vividly remember her story because of it.
Elena
I have noticed that underneath your comment box it says "thank you for taking the time to comment…" I was wondering how you did that, because we want it for our blog. Thank you.
In blogger, click on "Settings" (Near the bottom of Overview, Posts, Pages, Comments, etc.) then click "Posts and Comments." At the bottom of the Posts and Comments screen you will see a box for "Comment Form Message." You can add whatever text you'd like in that box and then save the new settings. Hope that helps!
I appreciate these compilations so much. As much as possible, I like to buy birthday and Christmas gifts gradually during the year. You give me so many great ideas. I just hope that items I put in my Amazon wish list give you credit when I finally buy them! Happy feast of the Epiphany! – Genevieve
Thank you, Genevieve! Happy Epiphany to you too!
Actually, I do not receive the commission from Amazon is the items are just added to the wish list for future purchase. You would actually need to come back here first and click a link to Amazon before adding any items you'd like to purchase to your shopping cart.
The purchases that qualify for commission are those that occur after a customer clicks through a link on my website and then adds an item (of their choice – it doesn't need to be the item they clicked) to the shopping cart… Anything that was in the shopping cart already doesn't qualify). However, if you add the item to your shopping cart, after clicking a link here, you have 89 days to complete the purchase for me to receive commission on that particular item. So, basically, I benefit the most when someone clicks a link from here to Amazon before adding any items to the shopping cart and completing a purchase.
Thanks again, to you and everyone else who uses the affiliate links here! It is such a blessing!
It is a beautiful book, isn't it! I also have the Saint Tarcisius (paperback) by the same author… It is always what comes to mind when I hear his name. 🙂
I will be happy to come back and click through. It's not that difficult, especially with your search box! So happy to support you, even if it is tiny. -Genevieve
Thank you very much for taking your time to respond to my question. God bless you and your lovely family.