Top 10 Books for the Christian Educator

Called to Teach and Learn: A Catechetical Guide for the Episcopal Church / Discovering Called to Teach and Learn (workbook) (DFMS, 1994) Downloadable

Children Matter: Celebrating Their Place in the Church, Family and Community by Scottie May, Beth Posterski, Catherine Stonehouse and Linda Cannell (Eerdmans, 2005)

Christly Gestures: Learning to Be Members of the Body of Christ by Brett Webb-Mitchell (Eerdmans, 2003)

Educating Congregations: The Future of Christian Education by Charles R. Foster (Abingdon Press, 1994)

Fashion Me A People: Curriculm in the Church by Maria Harris (Westminster John Knox Press, 1989)

Leaving Home with Faith: Nurturing the Spiritual Life of Our Youth by Elizabeth F. Caldwell (Pilgrim Press, 2003)

Making a Home for Faith: Nurturing the Spiritual Life of Your Children, revised edition by Elizabeth F. Caldwell (Pilgrim Press, 2007)

Offering the Gospel to Children by Gretchen Wolff Pritchard (Cowley Publications, 1992) 

The Teaching Church: Moving Christian Education to Center Stage by Eugene C. Roehlkepartain (Search Institute/Abingdon, 1993)

Will Our Children Have Faith? Revised Edition by John H. Westerhoff, III (Morehouse Publishing 2000) 

In Dialogue with Scripture edited by Linda L. Grenz (DFMS) Downloadable

Out of print - but worth finding a used copy:

I Love to Tell the Story: An Episcopal Handbook on Christian Education by Lois Stephens

Sharing our Biblical Story (revised edition) by Joseph P. Russell – Morehouse Publishing

God, Kids and Us: The Growing Edge Ministry with Children and the People Who Care for Them (Episcopal edition) by Janet Marshall Eibner & Susan Graham Walker – Morehouse Publishing

Coming in May 2009:

The Prayer Book Guide to Christian Education, 3rd edition (for the Revised Common Lectionary) Sharon Ely Pearson & Robin Szoke, editors (Church Publishing, 2009)