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Moni
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Hello Ladies . .
I'm curious whether anyone can comment in general on these two series?
How might each one be characterized?
Does one or the other have, say, more rich/difficult vocabulary?
For more older (or more younger) children ?
Written in an older-fashion text (such as Catholic National Readers) or written in more modern basic vocabulary controlled fashion? or
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Moni,
I have only read a few of M. F. Windeatt's books, so I can't comment there on the whole series.... but I will say that though they are written for children, they can have a number of scary things in them: like St. Martin de Porres getting beaten by his mother or St. John Massias getting attacked by the devil.
On the Vision Books series:
I have been very pleased with some of them (Thomas More, Isaac Jogues, Pius X), and others are written in an awkward and "twaddly" way, esp. the beginning where it imaginitively "re-creates" the saint's childhood. Listening to my dh read them aloud was painful. Since they are from different authors, it's wise to borrow and read before you buy.
Age-wise, I think you would want about a 10 yr old comprehension level for both of these.
I hope that helps some. I am sure others will have more specifics.
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Moni~
I asked this question last year too! Here is the thread:
Windeatt or Vision books
We ended up purchasing the Windeatt books. There are several that we've read aloud to my girls who are quite young.....7 and under, and they really like them. Blessed Imelda, Little Flower, Fatima children.
I'd say the vision books are a "harder read."
I req'd a couple from Inter-lib loan to get an idea.
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We start with Windeatt as read alouds, then the dc read the vision books when they are more independent. I am grateful to have both sets.
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We purchased the whole set of Windeatt books and have been reading aloud from them at morning prayer. The boys have really liked them and been inspired by them to imitate these saints in many ways. My ds 9 s starting his own Angelic Warfare Confraternity after reading about it in St Thomas Aquinas' story, they all have grown in their love of Mary after reading about St. Louis de MOntfort...my oldest is obviously getting the most out of these, bt my 6 and 4 year old ar able to benefit from them too. I enjoy hearing them talk about the saints we have read about like they know them. I think the Vision books will be the natural continuation of this.
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Not to confuse you further, but a series that encourages earlier independent reading of saint stories (because they're shorter and less dense textually) is Encounter the Saints. Some wicked scenes (I'm thinking specifically of St. Isaac Jogues) are depicted in detail, but this is how it happened. If you have boys, they might actually be *attracted* to saints like Isaac Jogues because of his bravery.
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We've enjoyed all three of these series. Encounter the Saints are definitely much faster, easier reads. The thing that I've found with the Vision books is that since they are written by different authors, some are great and some are not as enjoyable. My oldest just finished Edmund Campion and complained that it kept repeating itself instead of moving along.
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