Reshelving Alexandria is an online literary catalog of good, true, and beautiful books that supports families in building and utilizing a home library. Our membership subscription service includes extensive content to help identify and source the best books for your home library.
The D'Aulaires are one of our favorite literary couples. They always worked together on both the text and illustrations of every children's book that they created. Their illustrations showcase their craftsmanship and artistic expertise. Having emigrated to America from Europe, English was not their native language but they embraced their new home and language and over the years revised the text as their fluency increased. They clearly loved their work and were working on projects until their deaths. There's a lot more to read about their story on their author pages so definitely take the time to read them. All of their books are also listed and full descriptions of the books will be publicly available for the month of November.
Read more about Ingri d'Aulaire
Read more about Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Reshelving Alexandria has been a tremendous blessing to our family, saving us both time and money. Before Reshelving Alexandria, finding living literature for our children was a painstaking and time-consuming process; scouring book lists, hunting through blog posts and podcast notes, researching titles and subjects and authors and illustrators, speculating as to reading level and suitability for our family.
Because Reshelving Alexandria has already done this for me, bringing together the best of the best of living literature in a searchable and easily navigable database, it allows me to both focus and stretch our book budget by narrowing down my search to precisely those books that are the best fit for our family and then helping me to easily take advantage of free online books and used book searches to grow our family library. And all the time I am saving? What a joy to re-invest that in reading these books with my children!"
Johanna Bittle
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