biblical bloggers discuss children’s books: a first list

One of the joys of having a 5 year old is the chance to be blessed all over again by children’s literature. At the moment, I’m reading Tor Seidler’s Mean Margaret to Anna for the second time. Anna loves it. I like the book’s whimsical soteriology – more on that in a forthcoming post.

Here is a list of biblical bloggers who have shown interest in blogging about children’s literature in the coming weeks - I will update as I receive information (contact me at jfhobbins at gmail dot you know what):

Phil Sumpter of Narrative and Ontology on Piers Anthony’s series set in the magical land of Xanth

Ros Clarke of Conversational Theology on Philip Pullman (books and movie)

Sam Norton of the Elizaphanian

Eclexia of, well, Eclexia

David Ker of Lingamish

Iyov on Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; here’s the intro

Christian Brady at Targuman

Bob MacDonald of Sufficiency

James Pate on Judy Blume at James’ Thoughts and Musings

Doug Chaplin of Metacatholic on the Harry Potter series

Chris Weimer of Thoughts on Antiquity on Love you forever by Robert Munsch

Jim Getz of Ketuvim on Daniel Pinkwater

Jim West of the Zwinglian

Ben Johnson of Kilbabo on Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

Henry Neufeld of Threads from Henry’s Web

Drew of Notes from Offcenter on Roald Dahl

Bishop Wrong bends the rules a little with a tongue-in-cheek post on Gerhard Kittel as children’s author

John Hobbins, here, on Mean Margaret by Tor Seidler

Comments

[Phil Sumpter]

I posted here: http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/2008/06/legacy-of-xanth-influential-childrens.html.

Great idea :)

[Doug Chaplin]

I have laid claim to Harry Potter.

[Bethany]

Awesome! I'm currently teaching a class on religion and spirituality in lit and I know the students want more sources on children's lit.

[JohnFH]

Check back every few days, Bethany.

I'll update the list as bloggers post.

[Ros]

Are there any rules about this or can anyone jump in?

[JohnFH]

Jump right in, Ros. I'll add you to the list.

[TheraP]

Chronicles of Narnia. Not to early to start them!

[JohnFH]

Thera,

if you post on them, I'll link.

[Drew]

John,

Splendid idea. I have an idea regarding Roald Dahl if I might... :-)

[JohnFH]

I added you in, Drew. I look forward to it.

[Ros]

A while ago I posted this on the film of Northern Lights/The Golden Compass with some references to the book and the other two in the trilogy. I don't know if this counts. ;)

I'll try and write some more in the coming weeks.

[JohnFH]

Ros,

your review of Pullman's books and the movie is very well-done. I'll include it, hoping you will give us more on this or another author.

[Nick Norelli]

John,

I've posted some thoughts on my favorite children's story: The Monster at the End of This Book.

[JohnFH]

Thanks, Nick. I'll put you in the list.

[Ros]

Okay, I've been thinking about this and I've narrowed my choice down to two - a much-loved old favourite that I've been wanting to blog about for a while, Little Women (and possibly assorted sequels) and a new story about one of my favourite bears, Paddington, in Paddington Here and Now. Which gives me an excellent excuse for reading it.

[JohnFH]

Ros,

you can always do both. I've read some of Paddington before, and need to get at least one story for my 5 year old.

[Ros]

Both it is, then!

[Doug Chaplin]

John, I've now published the promised post.