Saints for Young Readers for Every Day: January - June

Excellent Saint book for children. We read each day’s entry at the dinner table each night. I think the kids would prefer if each saint had a picture but that doesn't Really bother me. I love that there is truly a saint/holy day for each day, instead of just some of the major ones.

A recent purchase, I am enjoying this with the Franciscan Sister with whom I share an apartment; I'm a Sister of Mercy, and we pray Morning & Evening Prayer together daily, so often share these stories, which are relatively short, simple, and to the point about the particular saint for that day. I ordered it because I happened to find its companion, SAINTS FOR YOUNG READERS FOR EVERY DAY, Vol. 2: July - December, at a garage sale, and was delighted with the format. These "Lives of the Saints" are well written and concise, but composed in such a way as to draw the interest of Young People. I am delighted that they usually end with some action or decision for you to make in imitation of the saint for the day!

This book was exactly what I have been looking for! The kids and I like to read about the saint of the day, and this book is perfect. The daily entries have good information, easy to read to kids, without being dumbed down.

Great for young children, teaching them about the Saints. My grandchildren love them.

Best Saints Book for grades 3-8. One page, 3-6 paragraphs. Some saintshave black and white depictions. Not every Saint, but very complete.

The book has a saint for each day, with a biography that takes only a few minutes to read. After the biography, there is a point to reflect on regarding a virtue that the saint particularly excelled in or regarding a situation this saint encountered in his or her life. One of our daughters started reading this out loud to her younger brother and sister in the evening after the lights went out and I love this tradition. It introduces the childern to the saints of our faith. What I really like is that the reflecting points, from time to time, mention contemporary items like computers, videos, and stereos, so they are not staid. The suggestions are wonderful, instructing the reader on how to live a certain virtue and asking for the saint to help the reader with their daily struggle in this area or that area. I have seen many "Saint of the Day" books for kids and this is the best set of books (Vols.1-2). Great for First Communion gifts.

Please note when purchasing this book that Vol. 1 covers saints feast days January through June and vol. 2 covers saint feast days July through December. Aside from those differences the books are the same. Each volume have approx. 1 page of information about a given saint applying it the life of a child. Each day associates something about a given saint when they were young, sometimes drawing attention to things the saint did that would make young people admire the saint. There are also a few lines at the end of each saint day that offers good moral thinking for the day. This book uses many saints that are not commonly known which expands the scope of a young readers knowledge of their Catholic faith. RO [...]

We enjoy reading this book. It was on my child's summer reading list and we love reading the "Saint of the Day." This book is Jan-June

Great for every day use at bedtime prayers.

Works as described and arrived on time.

Excellent Saint book for children. We read each day’s entry at the dinner table each night. I think the kids would prefer if each saint had a picture but that doesn't Really bother me. I love that there is truly a saint/holy day for each day, instead of just some of the major ones.

A recent purchase, I am enjoying this with the Franciscan Sister with whom I share an apartment; I'm a Sister of Mercy, and we pray Morning & Evening Prayer together daily, so often share these stories, which are relatively short, simple, and to the point about the particular saint for that day. I ordered it because I happened to find its companion, SAINTS FOR YOUNG READERS FOR EVERY DAY, Vol. 2: July - December, at a garage sale, and was delighted with the format. These "Lives of the Saints" are well written and concise, but composed in such a way as to draw the interest of Young People. I am delighted that they usually end with some action or decision for you to make in imitation of the saint for the day!

This book was exactly what I have been looking for! The kids and I like to read about the saint of the day, and this book is perfect. The daily entries have good information, easy to read to kids, without being dumbed down.

Great for young children, teaching them about the Saints. My grandchildren love them.

Best Saints Book for grades 3-8. One page, 3-6 paragraphs. Some saintshave black and white depictions. Not every Saint, but very complete.

The book has a saint for each day, with a biography that takes only a few minutes to read. After the biography, there is a point to reflect on regarding a virtue that the saint particularly excelled in or regarding a situation this saint encountered in his or her life. One of our daughters started reading this out loud to her younger brother and sister in the evening after the lights went out and I love this tradition. It introduces the childern to the saints of our faith. What I really like is that the reflecting points, from time to time, mention contemporary items like computers, videos, and stereos, so they are not staid. The suggestions are wonderful, instructing the reader on how to live a certain virtue and asking for the saint to help the reader with their daily struggle in this area or that area. I have seen many "Saint of the Day" books for kids and this is the best set of books (Vols.1-2). Great for First Communion gifts.

Please note when purchasing this book that Vol. 1 covers saints feast days January through June and vol. 2 covers saint feast days July through December. Aside from those differences the books are the same. Each volume have approx. 1 page of information about a given saint applying it the life of a child. Each day associates something about a given saint when they were young, sometimes drawing attention to things the saint did that would make young people admire the saint. There are also a few lines at the end of each saint day that offers good moral thinking for the day. This book uses many saints that are not commonly known which expands the scope of a young readers knowledge of their Catholic faith. RO [...]

We enjoy reading this book. It was on my child's summer reading list and we love reading the "Saint of the Day." This book is Jan-June

Great for every day use at bedtime prayers.

Works as described and arrived on time.

My daughter loves it and wants the second volume for the rest of the year.

Amazing book! We are learning, as a family, about so many Saints we didn't know until this book!

super

We've been reading these stories at the breakfast table with our 4th and 5th graders. It takes about 3 minutes, and they get to start the morning with a cool story to inspire them. The stories are written in a tone that children can understand, but without patronizing them. If a saint's life involved mistreatment or martyrdom this is not shoved under the rug: it is told, but always in a way that brings out clearly that the saint underwent this because of their love of God and their neighbors. The stories also manage to bring out how these saints lived doing good deeds to specific, concrete people, and manage to paint a warm, loving human being even when dealing with the most obscure saints! At the end of each story, there is a one-paragraph reflection that focuses on what we can learn from the life of this saint. This helps to show how varied their lives and personalities were and how they model very different virtues. This paragraph is phrased as a prayer ("let us ask to God that we can learn from so and so..."). It's amazing how just a short reading from this book (two actually, since it's in two volumes) has made our mornings so different! It doesn't work always (sometimes the kids are too distracted), but it does help you bring a supernatural, prayerful moment to what would otherwise be just "hurry up! Do you have your lunchbox?"