Okay, this is seriously my favourite series of books. It's written for older children. And the thing is that good books for that age-range are amongst the best books ever written.
And these are very good books.
These books are well written, engaging, are well paced, and well-researched. They take the books written by and about the missionaries themselves and make them into an engaging narrative. Because elt's face it, some books written actually by the missionaries themselves are ridiculously boring. These aren't.
The series covers a lot of different people, including famous missionaries (Husdon Taylor and Amy Carmichael, etc) to those who stayed home and made a difference there (Dietrich Bonhoeffer and John Wesley) to those who were cultural forces (CS Lewis) to those who enabled others to go (Loren Cunningham and Count Zinzendorf).
The other great thing about this series is the PRICE. The price varies from book to book (with newer ones tending to cost a bit more), but they range from $6.95 to $9.95 (less the church discount, if you are like me and buy via the church bookstall).
The one issue that I do have with these books is the authors sometimes skate over some of the more "controversial" aspects of their subjects - which is kind of to be expected in the Christian children's market. Still, it was disappointing to have major people in the lives of one particular missionary (Gladys Aylward) minimised or edited out. But other than that, this series is a great introduction to some of the heroes of the faith, especially missionaries, for any age.
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