Over the next several months, I want to focus on some of the common questions and concerns I hear during consults or receive via e-mail. I’m usually too busy to keep a running tally and add all the questions up. Still, without any record, certain worries rise to the surface quite frequently. Probably the top… Read More He is For You
Time has limitations. Those limitations mean we have to decide between many good things because there isn’t time to do all we wish. Perhaps because I’m getting older, I now consider time quite precious and want to make the most of it. I am not as careless of time as I used to be. I… Read More Against the Clock
At one of our ADE at Home conferences, I gave a brief meditation on sowing and reaping. Just as “the feast” is a great analogy for the Charlotte Mason curriculum, gardening is also apt, especially as relates to the teacher. Remember Miss Mason’s reference to Ecclesiastes, “In the morning sow your seed, and in the… Read More Reading: Compost for Composition, or, Sow a Book, Reap a Composition
The First Book of Electricity by Sam & Beryl Epstein, is another science book in the First Book of series that Living Library Press is bringing back into print. Although first published in the 1950’s the information contained in the volume is timeless. The book conveys a basic understanding of the principles of electricity and it… Read More New Living Library Press Release
We wanted to let our visitors know that we are out of the office for two weeks–August 7-21. If you are needing a book that we publish before we get back to work on August 22nd, we recommend you purchase it on Amazon.com to avoid the delay. We hope you are all having a wonderful… Read More Vacation Leave
The Year Round is the newest offering from Living Library Press. This paperback reprint of a 1932 nature guide, written and illustrated by Clarence Hylander, is an excellent adjunct to a student’s nature studies. Mr. Hylander states that his purpose in writing the book is to assist not only the student, but the parent or… Read More Introducing: The Year Round
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
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
The White Witch by Elizabeth Goudge. My favorite modern women’s author unfolded a pageant of characters as usual, this time in the historical setting of the British civil war. In typical Goudge fashion, her insight into the nature of man’s heart and how that produces the decisions and actions of the diverse characters is perceptive… Read More What I Read in March