![]() You can also search under the Browse tab for lists. If an author you like is a Goodreads featured author you can go to the author page and see if it offers recommendations. ![]() Then check the recommendations generated by Goodreads. The site is owned by Amazon! Reviews on Goodreads seldom talk about the moral content of a book. Goodreads is another site to look for book reviews. Read the one and two star reviews which often address moral objections. When in doubt about a title, look for it on and go to the reviews. After that standards go progressively downhill, slowly at first, then gaining momentum until today parents can only gasp at what has entered not only book stores but our public libraries, our public school libraries and even some of our Catholic school libraries. You can be fairly certain a children’s book will be at least morally sound if you focus on titles published before 1960. It is wonderful to be able to support a little known Catholic or Orthodox author while supporting the monastery or church at the same time. A recent discovery for Catholic children’s books are, surprisingly, monastery and church gift shops. We especially enjoy Native American folk tales. Other good places for finding good books, if not as thrifty, are museum, zoo and national park gift shops that carry excellent and unique non-fiction books and local authors. Half Price Books has great used books bargains online and in their retail stores with dollar days, 25cent paperback days and other specials.Try other local thrift stores and yard sales. The Salvation Army is next in the inexpensive category. This is a great way to support new authors. ![]() Our library even purchased multiple copies. We have successfully requested a number of good books, even some self-published ones. Public libraries accept purchase requests!!! Ask for the form to fill out. We give them a list of titles we are looking for and they keep an eye out for these books. Our local Friends of the Library book store accepts book requests. We like older history books from before the age of historical revisionism. We have found a complete set of the New Book of Knowledge children’s encyclopedia there, not the most recent edition, but still a wonderful resource for our eight homeschooled students. When their little store overflows, the volunteers put the excess in a designated FREE place. One can find the most amazing treasures among these lots. Often families bring in large collections of books after spring cleaning or after a grandparent has passed away. The books do not come from the library collection. In our town, the Friends of the Library, a nonprofit organization supporting the library, raises funds by selling used books in a little store in the basement three times a week. They promote carefully-screened indie and self-published authors.īy far the most inexpensive place we know of to buy good books is the book sale of your local library. Subscribe and you will receive 50% and under deals for good Catholic books. The great money saving feature of the site is their e-mail blast. There is not much in the children's genre at this point but there are quite a few young adult books and, of course, adult books with clean content. reviews books according to strict Catholic standards.
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