Living Library Press is pleased to announce the release of our newest reprint: Cardboard Modelling by William Heaton. This Hardcover book is twice the length of the introductory Paper Modelling at 176 pages. Cardboard Modelling is the second book that Charlotte Mason used in her schools to teach the art of Sloyd, the Swedish handicraft… Read More Cardboard Modelling is Available!
In our continuing tradition of re-publishing living science books we have added The First Book of Sound by David C. Knight. This is intended for Form II (grades 4-6) and explains the principles of sound and the science of acoustics. The book is full of illustrations that are dated to the 1950s but continue to be relevant… Read More Newest Living Library Press Release
Strangers in the Forest by Carol Ryrie Brink. In preparation for a long trip out west, (my first time ever to California), I packed up some books to travel with me. Perhaps the highlight of my trip was a day ferrying across the bay from Fisherman’s Wharf to head to John Muir Woods. The redwoods… Read More Books I Finished with the Summer
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr. This was a reread in order to review information for a podcast recording on the relationship between reading and electronics. After a five year lapse, I found the research and examples to be even more compelling than when I first read this… Read More Books Finished in July, 2018
My summer self-indulgence has been to read a good number of children’s books. This is a refreshing breather in my busy season and helps me keep my balance. I have read several novels by old and beloved author friends of mine, some gems of theirs I have not read before. Hilda van Stockum, of course,… Read More Summer Goody: The Bantry Bay Series
My summer diversion this year is to look for unread titles by some of my favorite children’s authors. I came to know Gary D. Schmidt three years ago and devoured The Wednesday Wars, Okay for Now, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, and Orbiting Jupiter in rapid succession, truly excited to read worthwhile young adult… Read More Summer Goody: Poetry for Young People, Robert Frost
The Tower by the Sea by Meindert DeJong I have written before about one of my all-time favorite children’s authors, Meindert DeJong, and try to pick up one of his titles now and then. Though The Wheel On the School and The House of Sixty Fathers are among my most beloved books, I am never disappointed in… Read More Summer Goody: The Tower by the Sea
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare. From the first scene, it is difficult not to make comparisons to today’s political climate. This play, if you are interested in the historical alignment for your children’s school studies, takes place in Rome’s days of the republic. If you are interested in it morally, it is a play about what… Read More Books Finished in May
This is the kind of question that apparently wakes mothers early in the morning, or keeps them up nights, since the following was sent to me at 5:50 a.m., the day my “Summer Reading” query was posted. I had asked, what questions do you have about keeping your kids reading through the summer: “I’m glad… Read More Can You Help Me With My Struggling Reader?
It’s time to stock the summer reading shelves for our kids so they can make use of those long, lazy days of summer ahead to travel places and meet people they never have before in the pages of books they don’t otherwise have time for during the school year. (I sincerely hope you have not… Read More Summer Reading Goodies