Sixty Saints For Girls

Information from the publisher's website
"A reprinting of all of Joan Windham's stories of girl and woman saints from her earlier books, with a number of new ones added. Using biographical detail but with added dialogue and probable scene-setting, the stories are ideally suited to inspire readers to fall in love with virtue.
Arranged chronologically from Anne the mother of Our Lady to another Anne, Anne de Guigne, who died in 1922, aged 10 and was declared venerable by Pope John Paul 2 in 1990, they include a lovely mix of saints, young and old, princesses and pilgrims, mothers and grandmothers and nuns: a goose-girl and a horse-dealer's daughter; a girl who was kidnapped by pirates, a veterinarian and (believe it or not) a ventriloquist.
No child reading them will ever suppose that saints are all cut to one pattern or that holiness is less interesting than bad behavior!"