The Secret of the Goldfish: A Gloria Treddle Mystery, by Mark Guiney (204pp, Our Sunday Visitor)
Attentive Catholic parents are rightly cautious about giving their children contemporary stories. Children’s books, once safely outside the bounds of the kulturkampf, have in the last decade become one of its main battlegrounds, leading many parents to rely entirely on trusted classics. There is nothing wrong with that. Classics are classic for a reason. Still, we are raising children to live virtuously in the world of today. It is good for them to befriend literary role models who are doing just that. Enter Gloria Treddle.
