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 Shock and amazement have been replaced by a bland response of “cool.”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
Our monthly Book Sale has been updated! Please visit our Book Sale Page to browse our current selection of living books for sale.
Some of you will remember the Homeschool Librarians Conference we were privileged to host here in Virginia last June. I wrote on how that conference came about and afterward shared some of the highlights of that event. Because of the increasing interest of homeschool families to offer their book collections to other homeschoolers in their own communities, the general lack… Read More Speaking of Libraries
I heard from a number of you when I approached the complex subject of “what” our children should be reading and intend to continue probing it. For the home educating parent, reading is undeniably crucial. Beyond the challenge of our children accomplishing the actual skill of reading the written word, there is that immense ocean of written material–making choices about… Read More More Hard Thinking about Easy Reading