BOOKS FOR PAGAN PARENTS/FAMILIES:
Pagan Parenting: Spiritual, Magical & Emotional
Development of the Child by Kristin Madden
Circle Round by Starhawk, Diane
Baker, and Ann Hill
Wheel of the Year by Dan and Pauline
Campanelli
Celebrating the Great Mother: A Handbook of Earth-Honoring
Activities for Parents and Children by Cait Johnson and Maura D. Shaw
Family Wicca by Ashleen O'Gaea
WiccaCraft for Families by Margie McArthur
The Pagan Family: Handing the Old Ways Down by Ceisiwr Serith
ACTIVITY BOOKS:
Pagan Kids Activity Book by Amber K.
PICTURE BOOKS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN:
Song to Demeter by Cynthia and William
Birrer
The Story of May by Mordicai Gerstein
The Ballad of Biddy Early by Nancy
Willard
All I See is a Part of Me by Chara
M Curtis
On the Day You Were Born by Debra
Frasier
Conjure Woman by William Miller
The Rainbow Bridge by Audrey Wood
Earth, Fire, Water, Air by May Hoffman
and Jane Ray
When The Moon Is Full: A Lunar Year
by Penny Pollock
On The Morn of Mayfest by Erica
Silverman
Lord of the Dance: An African Retelling
by Véronique Tadjo
Dear Children of the Earth by Schim
Schimmel
Children of the Earth, Remember
by Schim Schimmel
The Tooth Witch by Nurit Karlin
Sun Song by Jean Marzollo
The Circle of Days (a child's version
of St. Francis' Canticle of the Sun) by Reeve Lindbergh
Be Blest: A Celebration of Seasons
(also inspired by St. Francis' Canticle of the Sun) by Mary Beth Owens
Can I Pray With My Eyes Open? by
Susan Taylor Brown
Who Is Ben? by Charlotte Zolotow
Sacred Places (a multi faith book
that is Pagan friendly) by Philemon Sturges
CHAPTER BOOKS FOR OLDER CHILDREN:
A is for Apple, W is for Witch by
Catherine Dexter (deals with "fairytale" witchcraft but still a good story about a girl being teased because her mother,
and eventually she herself, is a witch)
Witch-Cat by Joan Carris (again,
"fairytale" witchcraft but has a good part where the main character begins to think about the moral implications of practicing
magic)
CHAPTER BOOKS FOR TEENS/YOUNG ADULTS:
The Circle of Three series by Isobel
Bird (my personal favorite!)
A Gift of Magic by Lois Duncan (actually,
I like all of her stuff, but this one was my favorite from a Wiccan perspective)
Silver RavenWolf's Teen Witch fiction
series
INFORMATIONAL BOOKS:
Spiritualized: A Look Inside The Teenage Soul
by Mark Healy
Teen People's Faith edited by Megan
Howara and Joan Barrett
Sun-Day, Moon-Day: How the Week Was Made
by Cherry Gilchrist & Amanda Hall
MYTHS, FABLES AND LEGENDS:
The Lady of Ten Thousand Names: Goddess
Stories from Many Cultures retold by Burleigh Mutén (a perpetual favorite at our house!)
Irish Legends for Children retold
by Yvonne Carroll
Moontellers: Myths of the Moon from Around the
World by Lynn Moroney
Beneath the Earth: The Facts and the Fables
by Finn Bevan and Diana Mayo
Creation: Read-Aloud Stories from Many Lands
retold by Ann Pilling
MAGAZINES:
Blessed Be - A Pagan family
magazine with regular homeschooling articles, articles on parenting, and plenty of things for kids to make, do and learn.
From the publishers of PanGaia and Sage Woman.
How About Magick? - A
magazine for Pagan kids. From the publishers of Green Egg. (Last I knew, publication of the magazine was temporarily
suspended.)
MUSIC:
Circle Round and Sing by Anne Hill
(the companion CD to the Circle Round book listed above)
Mother Earth We Sing to You by Squirrel
(music for Pagan kids)
Celebrate Seasons by Sara Jordan
(songs about the seasons and nature based on science and facts)
Mother Earth by Tom Chapin (or any
of his other CD's, but Mother Earth is one of the most pertinent to Pagans)
TV AND VIDEOS:
Little Bear on Nickelodeon and on
video (especially the Little Goblin Bear and Winter Tales collections
on video)
Fantasia
and Fantasia 2000 (Disney)
Scooby-Doo and the Witches
Ghost (this one is iffy to me, but my son loves it)