Welcome to our Celebrate Freedom (& Simplicity) in Biblical Home Education Facebook Party Door Prize post! If you aren’t at the party on the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page, click on over there now! “Like” the Page and join the fun for more great prizes from Me & My House and others! Then read below to find out how to enter the drawing for this Door Prize. If it is after 8 p.m. central time, Tuesday July 12, 2011, sorry, you missed the party. But if it’s before midnight, you may still be able to enter to win this and other Door Prizes. Scan through the recent blog posts.
Tonight, Jim Hodges of Jim Hodges Audio Books has donated a G.A. Henty audiobook CD, a $25 value, for one blessed attender of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Party. Thanks so much Jim! “Like” Jim Hodges Audio Books on Facebook.
Here’s the G.A. Henty resource one blessed attender is going to win!
Keep reading for instructions to enter the drawing.
Looking for great adventurous, historical reading?
It is really hard for me to choose a favorite Henty to place here. So many are so good, and they are a Recommended Resource for Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™. (In our Resources & Recommendations Online Catalog on our HisStory: Historical Fiction Page.)
I could put the one about the American Revolution, but since Henty was British, his tale is from the other side. So I’ll list the one that Jim has on sale this month, so if you don’t win, you can go buy a copy of the downloadable version at a great price, on Jim’s website! But, even better, if you DO win, and don’t want this one, you can choose ANY of the Henty titles available from Jim. ~ Me
St. Bartholomew’s Eve
I trust you all had a wonderful Independence Day celebration! It was a great day celebrating the 235th birthday of a great nation! Conversely, 439 years ago, one of the signal events in the Reformation was played out in Paris – The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
Catholics and Protestants had been at serious odds since Luther’s nailing of his 95 theses protesting the sale of indulgences to the church door at Wittenburg on October 31st, 1517. The differences between the two belief systems had spilled over into actual fighting and wars between monarchs which held to the different belief systems. Often the full military force of the government was brought down on a country’s citizens who believed differently than the king! Such was the case in France.
On August 24, 1572, more than two thousand French Huguenots (Protestants) – men, women, and children – were massacred for their faith.In St. Bartholomew’s Eve, Henty recounts the adventures of Phillip Fletcher, son of an English father and a French mother, who journeys to France to take part in the Huguenots’ struggle for religious freedom. He and his band of soldiers see much combat, and Phillip’s skill as a swordsman and marksman is required innumerable times before he returns as a hero to England.
Henty vividly depicts Admiral Coligny’s unflinching bravery, Queen Elizabeth’s vacillating foreign policy, Catherine de Medici’s vindictive scheming, and the Queen of Navarre’s inner strength.
Setting: AD 1570-72, France, the Roman Catholic / Calvinist Protestant religious wars
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The winner of this drawing will receive a G.A. Henty Audiobook CD, of your choice, by Jim Hodges. You can enter this drawing several ways. Increase your chances of winning by doing all of them! Each must be a separate comment to this post (below.)
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I subscribe. I like what’s on your I pod
I liked the post
I have never read a Henty
I am already a subscriber. Not sure what I like best but I enjoy reading through it when it comes to my box.
Ive never read or listened to any Henty. But I’ve heard a lot of good things about his books.
Blessings
I would like to win St. Barthomew’s Eve as I have not read that one. My favorite so far is The CAt Of Bubastes. My son who is 11 has a number of the Henty books and enjoys’ reading them.
I’d like to hear the With Lee in Virginia: A Tale of the American Civil War because it is one of my mother’s favorite topics. I have not studied this topic much, and it would be great to be able to discuss this with my mom.
I haven’t read any of his books (yet).
I already subscribe to your newsletter. I like your suggestions in implementing the PA with homeschooling / family rearing.
I have never read a Henty book, although I tried to get my daughter to because she likes adventure novels. Are there any that take place during the 1700’s?
I posted on fb about it… but I see I misread where to post. So, here it is…
1) I’ve heard so much about Henty and I’d really appreciate being able to listen to one of the CD’s! I am too unfamiliar with the material to choose… so I’d like to go with your recommendation of “St. Bartholomew’s Eve.” It’ll help me to learn more about this period of history. 🙂
2)I think that’s what I did with the above comment…
3)Already done… just need to “approve” it.
4)Done.
5)Done.
I’d be happy for any Henty audio book. I mistakenly thought (and posted on your Facebook post) that my hubby started reading Henty to the kiddos. He has started with the Lamplighter books instead. oops!
I would like any of the Henty audio books. I think my boys would enjoy listening to it.
Thank you!
I haven’t read any of his books, but I’m guessing if you recommend them, they are great.
I subscribed
I would like any of them for my son, whose ability to comprehend far exceeds his reading ability right now. We haven’t read any yet, but I’ve heard great things.
I liked on fb
I have never read a Henty, but With Lee in Virginia sounds like something I would like.
I liked this post on FB.
I subscribed tonight.
In Freedom’s Cause.
I liked on FB.
My daughter loves the Cat of Bubastes, I’d love to hear St. Bart’s Eve!! I hope Canadians can enter and that I’m not too late, I seem to have missed the party (so bad at time differences).
I like you on FB!
I am an email subscriber already :).
I haven’t read and of the books, but I’ve been wanting to for some time. I’ve heard good things about Jim Hodges, too. 🙂
email subscriber
Thanks to all who commented!
And the winner is —
Jennifer B.
Congratulations! I’ll be emailing you.
Our family seemed to take a long time to get into Henty books. (Could have something to do with having 5 older girls.) 🙂 But even for me, they were just too detailed in getting into the story.(They seem to appeal to boys better.) 🙂
Jim’s audios got me going. Listening got me through the beginning and into being hooked into the stories. That is how I introduced our boys (and 1 younger daughter) to Henty’s – With Lee in Virginia, Jim’s audio. I’ve been adding the audios to our book collection ever since.
I really like Jim’s audios best, as his are unabridged (the full book!)
See Henty’s here in our catalog. There is also a pdf file there to download that gives a list of the titles and when they are about.
Hi Lori,
Yes there are a lot of them about various things in the 1700’s. Download the pdf list of books with their dates on our Henty catalog page.