Growing up, I loved to read (don’t worry, I still love to read!). I would read anything and anywhere: the car, my room, the dinner table (OK: I would get in trouble for reading there), but I loved to read. I especially loved it when I found TINY books to read.  I don’t mean books that are short, but tiny books that could easily fit into my hands.

Some of my favorite tiny books to read were the Angel Food for Boys and Girls series. Each of the four books in this series has about thirty short little stories that teach the Catholic Faith with wonder and surprise. They are perfect to read aloud or on your own. Before all my siblings could read, my mom would read these books aloud to the whole family. We would all run over to listen in. I loved taking a break in my school to sneak a chapter from these books. The stories in the series all stand alone, so I could just pick up whichever Angel Food for Boys and Girls book was closest and pick a story.

Last week, I walked into the office after being out for several days to study for the SATs (yikes!). One of the first things I saw was a stack of the complete set of Angel Food for Boys and Girls series. I had not read these stories in years! I had not even known that we had started distributing them, but the books were exactly as I had remembered! They had the same brightly colored hardcovers and the same wonderfully insightful stories.

Once I got home, I hunted up my family’s set (which thanks to the hardcover is still good as new despite twenty years of constant use!) and read a couple of the stories which had always been my favorites:

• Peter the Soldier — the soldier who marched up and knocked on the door to Heaven (Volume IV, pg 28)
• The Devil at the Door — it’s not what you think! (Vol I, pg 1–the very first story in the series!)
• A Box of Hail Marys — always makes me cry a little bit, it’s so sweet (Vol 1, pg 38)
• The Boy with the Nails — a boy who swears and how he changed his ways (Vol III, pg 30)

I also rediscovered some some of the stories I had forgotten about:

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs—the Catholic significance of the famous fairy-tale (Volume III, pg 26)
• The Devil is a Sissy!–how to make sure you aren’t one, too (also Volume III, pg 74)
• The Boy who Almost Lost Thanksgiving–with Thanksgiving still fresh in our memories, this might be a good story to remind children to always be grateful (Vol II, pg 113)
• A Boy’s Letter–a touching story of God’s love for each of us (Volume IV, pg 46)

I would have read more stories, but I got up to do something…and the books mysteriously disappeared from where I had left them… I later found out that Lillian had taken them to read (she had been at the office and spied them that day, too).

 The stories in the Angel Food for Boys and Girls books are all filled with Christ-like charm, simplicity, and attractive truths. Each story is simple enough for even the youngest children to understand, but they are ALL filled with church teachings and traditions.

They even have an Imprimatur!

There are funny stories and sad stories, stories with saints and stories without saints, stories with Mary, and stories with Jesus. No matter what the age of your child, there is something in these books for them. I’m a senior in high school, and I enjoyed reading these books again just as much as my little sister, Lillian, did! (And if we don’t watch her, Caroline picks them up when she is at the office and reads them there, too…)

Just the right size to put in a stocking (just 5-1/2 x 7-1/2 tiny for hands like mine!). And if you have 4 children, each child can get one book–to share!

Click HERE to get the 4-book set!