{"id":26172,"date":"2015-05-11T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/\/us\/?p=26172"},"modified":"2015-05-29T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:50:09","slug":"help-children-read-good-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banneroftruth.org\/us\/resources\/book-review-resources\/2015\/help-children-read-good-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Your Children Read Good Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few evenings a week, after the younger children go to bed, my eldest, Chloe, and I sit on the couch and we read a good book together. I\u2019m not talking about a Little House on the Prairie<\/em> book or Anne of Green Gables<\/em> book, though I\u2019m sure we will do that too, one of these days. I\u2019m talking about a book that I\u2019d like to read, and I think she would enjoy \u2014 one that\u2019s a little bit beyond her reading ability but with a storyline or topic that she would really enjoy.<\/p>\n

This started after I read Richard Sibbes\u2019s, Josiah\u2019s Reformation<\/em>,1<\/a><\/sup> a Banner of Truth Puritan Paperback. After reading this book, I decided that my children would benefit from the first sermon, ‘A Tender Heart’. I read the sermon to them over the course of two weeks as part of our family worship time. When we finished, Chloe begged me to continue on with her. So I read the book again, with her.<\/p>\n

After that we read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer<\/em> together. Now, we\u2019re reading Iain Murray\u2019s recent biography, Amy Carmichael: Beauty for Ashes<\/em>.2<\/a><\/sup> We\u2019ve actually just started this one, but she\u2019s really into it. I\u2019m thrilled because A Chance to Die<\/em> by Elisabeth Elliot, another Amy Carmichael biography, was the book I was reading when I first met my bride-to-be in 2003. Now, after nearly 10 years of marriage, I\u2019m reading another Carmichael biography, but this one with my daughter.<\/p>\n

Murray has written this one accessibly. My daughter is having no difficulty following along. Only every once in a while has she asked a clarifying question. Usually these have to do with culture and history from a bygone era. If you haven\u2019t read a missionary biography or if your children have not read one, I really recommend this one. The story of Alma, Amy Carmichael, and her mission to rescue orphans from the temple prostitution in India is a remarkable story of a woman of faith and peerless virtue. Her ministry still carries on today in the small village Dohnavur, and it might have a significant impact in your home. Who knows? You might be reading to a future missionary . . . or systems analyst for CTU.<\/p>\n

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