Children's Books for All Ages

Some days our weary brains need a break from grown-up books and audio-books, and we return to favorites from childhood and youth. 

Little Women, Laura Ingalls, The Chronicles of Narnia, Winnie-the-Pooh, The Secret Garden, The Princess and the Goblin, Treasures of the Snow, and more... We recently chuckled over even The Boxcar Children. 

But the best are the kind described below which contain more of a harvest to be gleaned every time you re-read them - no matter your age!

"But I find I have been forgetting that those for whom I write are young—too young to understand this. Let it remain, however, for those older persons who at an odd moment, while waiting for dinner, or before going to bed, may take up a little one’s book, and turn over a few of its leaves. Some such readers, in virtue of their hearts being young and old both at once, discern more in the children’s books than the children themselves."

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, by George MacDonald