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.
May McNeer (May Yonge McNeer Ward) was a 20th Century American journalist and author. After getting the early start of being first published at age eleven, May went on to write the 35 books we have listed in the database, many of which were illustrated by her gifted husband, Lynd Ward. In 1975 the deserving duo were recognized by the Catholic Library Association for "continued, distinguished contribution to children's literature without regard to the nature of the contribution" and awarded a prestigious literary award: the Regina Medal. Reshelving Alexandria may not give out literary awards (yet!), but we do recognize May McNeer as our Author of the Month for August!
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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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