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Creating a Library in Your Home for the Entire Family to Enjoy!

Creating a Library in Your Home the Entire Family Can EnjoyCreating a library in your home can be a treasure for the whole family to enjoy! This gives your children easy access to adventures within the comfort of your own home. It also has the potential to open up a healthy dialogue for the whole family.
Reading is important. It develops the muscles within the mind that need exercise and stimulation to produce more growth. Understanding the written word is one way the mind grows in its ability. Teaching young children to read helps them develop their language skills. It also helps them learn to listen. Everybody wants to talk, but few can really listen.
Reading helps children [and adults] focus on what someone else is communicating. Reading develops the imagination. TV and computer games have a place within the home, but they provide passive amusement. In comparison, both spoken and written words are the building blocks of life and have the ability to expand both thoughts and communication skills.
Here are some library rooms below to inspire you to create a space in your home for books and time with your family!
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I have also included a few of my favorite books in my library below!
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Garden Inspirations
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Interior Design:
Barclay Butera Past, Present, Inspired
The Art of the Interior: Timeless Designs by the Master Decorators
Children’s Books: 
Tiffany and Talking Frog
The Princess Parables
Dr. Seuss’s Beginner Books
Corduroy
Classics: 
Chronicles of Narnia
Little Women
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Anne of Green Gables
There are SO many books I didn’t include but, I hope this inspires you to get started creating a special space for more books in your own home!
XO,
Sandra Maddox


About Sandra Maddox

Sandra Maddox is an outspoken advocate for Christian Motherhood, the founder of TheArtofDomesticity.com, a speaker, ministry leader, mentor, teacher, children's book author and accomplished interior designer. She directs Treasured, a ministry for young mothers at Saddleback Church in Southern California. Her heart's passion is to encourage, train and inspire moms to use their homes as places of ministry, where each can uniquely express the love and reality of Christ in her marriage, in her motherhood and as a woman of God. Sandra lives with her husband, Dr. Ron Maddox, in Newport Beach, California.

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