Chesterton for Children

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Word has it that Nancy Carpentier Brown’s young- reader adaptation of G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown mysteries will be published in April. The Father Brown Reader, illustrated by Ted Schluenderfritz and published by Hillside Press, will feature four tales about the mystery-solving priest: "The Blue Cross," "The Strange Feet" (originally titled "The Queer Feet"), "The Flying Stars," and "The Absence of Mr. Glass." This is news of great interest to my young Chesterton fans.

Hillside is a small press best known for its literature guides, home education materials, and Cay Gibson‘s popular Catholic Mosaic, a guide to using picture books to celebrate the liturgical year.

Sometimes I Don’t Know Where to Post Things

Such are the hazards of having more than one blog. This post over at Bonny Glen Up Close (a dopey title, I know, and I keep meaning to change it) is much more on topic for this blog than that one, but it was written in response to a question in the comments over there, so that’s where I put it. Confused yet?

(Up Close is my informal daily-notes journal, of little interest to anyone except homeschooling moms who like to see what other homeschoolers’ real days look like. I use it in lieu of a record book—the blog platform suits me much better than any kind of book I’ve tried. It is a rough, scattershot record, but it works for me. At one point I was playing around with Vox as a platform for the daily learning notes journal instead, but I never did more than play. "Be Like the Bird" is a much better blog title, though.)