When I addressed this subject earlier, I tackled the question, “Is reading any book of any kind good enough?” I concluded that reading is a matter of life and death and that all books are not created equal. The challenge to us as parents and teachers is strengthening this habit of reading and growing in our taste and appetite… Read More Hard Thinking About Easy Reading, Part 3
A week ago, a fellow homeschool librarian from Rogersville, Tennnessee, joined Emily and I for a workshop called Reading Re-Visited: A Re-Evaluation of the Use of Books in the Modern Homeschool. We wanted to provide both a learning time for parents, as well as mid winter encouragement for them. Since reading is necessary to every subject and a dear passion… Read More Ten Books for Parents Who Want to Encourage the Habit of Reading
In the middle of the “deep freeze month” comes the holiday for celebrating love. My husband just read my boys The Story of Valentine by W.P. Hayes. It is a simply told account of some of the true things that are known about the saint, as discovered through the lives of four boys in the days of ancient Rome’s… Read More Why Children Need Love Stories
Today we are pleased to announce that the first installment of our Audio Version of Charlotte Mason’s Volume I, “Home Education,” is ready for download! Each portion is one CD in length and will be released throughout this winter and spring. Please visit this link for more information.
Is there anything that truly surprises us in this high tech world any more? We are so accustomed to the unbelievable becoming reality that we barely react to the latest developments. Shock and amazement have been replaced by a bland response of “cool.” Thus, the announcement of the opening later this year of a book-less library in San Antonio, Texas, is… Read More A Book-less Future?
Ready or not, a new year has begun. It is always an odd sensation to try to grasp the concept that one year of life is closing and another opening as the seconds tick away in the usual daily manner. Happy New Year to you all! Our family left the old year behind by recounting with one another… Read More Resolving to Read Anew
I picked up an old habit this past year that I have had in former years, but have neglected in recent ones: keeping a list of all the books I have read. I find it not only to be a good record for future reference, but a picture of my personal interests and pursuits and… Read More For the Record
As you probably know, each month we post an updated list of living books we have for sale. Selling these books keeps our library doors open. Our library keeps homeschool families reading quality literature. Last January we had a special “clean off the shelves” sale and it was so successful we have decided to repeat that event. Basically, the more… Read More First Book Sale of the Year
Last Friday night my husband and I found ourselves home with just the boys and nothing urgent on the calendar. Bliss. What to do? We picked up one of the Christmas books I had pulled from the library to try to get to this season: The Christmas Stove by Alta Halverson Seymour. We finished it an hour… Read More Simple Truths
Advent has begun. Busy preparations of all kinds are underway. Before we know it, Christmas will be here, and with it the days of Advent will have flown by again. One of the ways we savor this season is reading a new Christmas story as a family every year. Actually, not new in any way except to us, as… Read More Our Favorite Christmas Story Ever