Living Library Press is pleased to announce our latest living science book: The First Book of Plants. This botany book is now available and a great addition to the living book collection for the young naturalists in your life. We thank you for supporting our efforts to recover some of the treasures of the past… Read More Living Library Press’s Latest Reprint
We heard them early in February this year, shrill piping in the marshy places near our favorite nature walk. Winter returned for a couple of weeks, and when next we tramped that path through the park, they were still boisterous, but their voices were a little lower pitched. Since moving to Virginia, the chorus of… Read More Books that Open Doors to Nature
Here is my regular report of the books I finished reading last month. I usually have six to ten going at a time and divide them into specific days, much as we do our children’s dozen to two dozen books for school lessons. Every day I read the Bible, poetry, and Charlotte Mason, then two… Read More My Reading in March
I know we are past halfway through March, but hope late is better than never. Though life is busy, even hectic, a life without reading is dreary, especially in February. 1. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. I thought I had read it before and do like to reread an Austen every year, but as I… Read More February’s Reading
In Ourselves, Charlotte Mason discusses the role of conscience in our lives. Without question, the conscience needs instruction. But how is it to be instructed? “Life brings us many lessons––when we see others do well, conscience approves and learns; when others do ill, conscience condemns. But we want a wider range of knowledge than the… Read More Our Books, Our Teachers
I plan to continue posting my monthly list of books I finished the previous month and apologize for being a bit behind in doing so—not a good habit to start off a new year. Alas, travel and illness interfere with the best laid plans. I have embarked on several lengthy and weighty tomes that will… Read More Books I Finished reading in January 2017
This is a third re-post of an article intended to explain the fundamentals of what a living book is. Emily’s description provides an acronym to help you learn the criteria and guide your discernment: Over the past few weeks I’ve been helping a friend choose books for a comprehensive science curriculum she is writing, a… Read More Re-post: What’s In a Living Book, or, Why We Collect the Books We Do
Here is the second in my original series that attempted to describe what a living book is. Recently, I spoke at a local homeschool meeting about living books and afterward a mom thanked me and said, “I have been so busy teaching and raising my children that I have forgotten how important stories and books… Read More Repost: What Is a Living Book, Part 2
I’ve had so many conversations of late where moms have asked my opinion about living books, I find I can’t do better than repeat what I said the very first time I posted a blog to this website when it was brand new, back in the winter of 2011. I hope you enjoy the re-run.… Read More Re-Post: What IS a Living Book?
I closed several books during the dark month of December, the dark month that is more festive and bright with celebration than any other—just one of the paradoxes of life. With all the Christmas preparation, I had several books to keep me company and to enhance the enjoyment of the season. This rounds up the… Read More Last Month’s Reading