{"product_id":"american-cardinal-reader-edith-m-mclaughlin-9781505124071","title":"American Cardinal Reader: (Set of 5)","description":"\u003cp\u003eArguably the most valuable habit that you can acquire during your elementary school years is to become a reader of good books.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe power to read is a gift of God that will help you in many ways. Reading well will enable you to learn about God and what He requires you to do to save your soul. It will aid you to develop your mind. It will help you to increase your knowledge, and it will afford you many happy hours of enjoyment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrusted and used by Catholic schools in the 1930s and 1940s and by numbers of homeschoolers today, the \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican Cardinal Readers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etake our young, elementary minds and have them read and study some of the finest stories from some of the best authors in a variety of ways. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGradually testing the reader's abilities, these books lead them through texts intentionally by questions, directions, and suggestions to help them gain more rapidly the power to understand, interpret, and remember the stories and poems that they have read.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing a natural progression that accelerates and enhances children's reading abilities, the \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Cardinal Readers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e take students who have just learned to read to being able to read within a few years the very words of Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton, Lewis Carroll, Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Francis Thompson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Blake, and George MacDonald and acquaints them with a multitude of other masters of the English language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom short stories to parables, from fables to poems, the \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican Cardinal Readers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eare a crown-jewel collection of literature in any Catholic family's library that will assist in increasing vocabulary, enhancing reading comprehension, and giving them an appreciation for great writings from great writers. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTeach your child how to read from the best writers, systematically and deliberately arranged by traditional Catholic nuns in the early 20th century, so that they can have their supple minds come to know, love, and use the English language properly in their journey to knowing, loving, and serving God in this world, so as to be happy with Him in the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edith M. McLaughlin,Adrian T. Curtis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1505124077\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781505124071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tan Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.72h x 5.51w x 3.23d","brand":"Edith M. McLaughlin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48518732447999,"sku":"9781505124071","price":94.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_84b71b59-e5e3-42ef-88d9-4b7f86394831.jpg?v=1778735424","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-cardinal-reader-edith-m-mclaughlin-9781505124071","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}