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DianaC
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Posted: June 24 2008 at 10:06am \| IP Logged

I am looking for opinions about some Diane Stanley books. My daughter and I recently read Cleopatra and found it (especially the mosaic illustrations) to be fabulous.

Now, I am looking into book selections as we are heading into our study of the middle ages/renaissance and there are several Diane Stanley books for this time period. Are these books Catholic-friendly?

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Posted: June 24 2008 at 10:48am \| IP Logged

We used several of these. I don't remember any anti catholic themes but it has been awhile. I think we looked at the Joan of Arc book and the Leonardo one.

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Posted: June 24 2008 at 10:51am \| IP Logged

Love Diane Stanley.

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Posted: June 24 2008 at 9:04pm \| IP Logged

I own most of her books, but it's obvious they are from a Protestant slant - "Good Queen Bess" for instance

... That didn't stop me from purchasing some of them though. They are readily available at most libraries so you can preview before buying.

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Posted: June 26 2008 at 8:38am \| IP Logged

Thanks for the input everyone!

I think we'll check out a couple from the library.

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Posted: June 26 2008 at 10:40pm \| IP Logged

Just a warning. I remember there was one Diane Stanley book that I decided not to read to my young ones. I cannot remember now which book it was and what the problem was. I know, not much help, huh?

I know it had some thing to do with protecting their innocence, as in there might have been references to out of wedlock birth or something like that.

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Posted: June 27 2008 at 4:45am \| IP Logged

Hi Irene,

It's her book on Leonardo da Vinci. It's right in the beginning. What I usually do in those cases is pull out my handy-dandy Sharpie

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