Patricia St John books

I have and we did enjoy  several of these.  I’ll try to pull them off the shelf tomorrow and give more specific feedback but at the moment I can only remember one with a very imperfect little girl who meets I think a shepherd, and I can’t even call up the name of that one.  I try not to be on much in the evening so I’ll try to revisit this tomorrow!

I have heard excellent things about her writing and have the three MFW recommends for the Creation to the Greeks year.  I’m hoping we’ll start one soon, but we need to finish the book we’re reading right now.  By the way, I found on Amazon some information in a review that the newer editions have been revised/abridged.  Here is a little more info I found searching the net ~ http://christiannovelstudies.com/page27.html

I did buy used copies of the unabridged versions for my kids and they were super inexpensive.

St. John’s books are wonderful!  She was a very devout Christian and could weave a wonderful story. 

Jan Bloom lists her as a “Top Author” and writes about her:

“When Patricia was seven years old, her mother took the children to Switzerland for a year to learn French.  Patricia’s book, Treasures of the Snow, is based on her memories of this time.  Years later, when a movie of the story was in the works, the village council turned down the request of the film company to film there because a prior motion-picture company had left a mess.  They reconsidered and welcomed the film crew when they learned it was for Patricia’s story.  They still remembered Patricia’s wonderful mother and her delightful family.

Patricia became a teacher, and taught at a school in Wales but felt called to serve God as a missionary.  She became a nurse and spent over twenty-five years in various Middle-Eastern countries.  She established a training school for nurses in Morocco.  She wrote whenever she could.  Her stories are well-written, interesting, full of emotion, spiritual honesty, and solid theology.”