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I am trying to spend the first 15 minutes or so of our after lunch \u201cquiet time\u201d doing reading a spiritual classic or a biography of a saint. My 9 and 8 year old children are enjoying the Encounter the Saints stories, biographies which they find easy and enjoyable \u2014 I do not, at this stage, want this to be reading above their reading level.
\nHowever, I also want to model this practice for our early or pre-reading children. There are plenty of bible books for the very young, but what other good books do you recommend?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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