Friday Emily and I got in the car at 5:00 a.m. and headed to Hendersonville, North Carolina in order to arrive two hours early for a big library book sale. We’ve been showing up for this sale annually since 2004, the year our friends, who are also book lovers, first introduced us to this special event. It is a… Read More If Your Son Asks For Bread
In the course of life, it is inevitable that we will go through difficult times, transitional periods that are trying, tough patches. In encouraging one of my married children who is going through one of these testing times currently, I can sympathize because we have had our share of rough seasons in life. Now, fifteen years down the road,… Read More Revelations
Continuing our Ask the Librarian post from four weeks ago, Kelly had asked about books on volcanoes, the human body, and dams & bridges to read aloud to her 7 year old son. Here are our picks for Dams and Bridges: The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, Hildegarde Hoyt Swift This classic picture book features… Read More Top Picks: Dams and Bridges
It’s a life changing choice to build a home library, it can be an exciting challenge to find space to put it, but the decisions about how to organize your books can be the most baffling. Before you begin the labor of stacking, and moving, and shelving and shifting them around, – perhaps many, many… Read More Living With Living Books Part 3: A Place for Books
Dreams and reality can coexist. The dream of providing a home library for your family to enjoy does not need to evaporate because the practical problems of where to put them all seem insurmountable. Following are some of the most common questions or objections I receive and my briefest responses. 1. I don’t have room for books. I have… Read More Living With Living Books Part 2: A Space for Books
What a family values is readily apparent as soon as you step into their home. How it is arranged, the order or disorder, the style and quality of its content reveal in part, just as the outward appearance of an individual reveals something of their personality, but the evidence of what a family does with its time is most… Read More Living With Living Books Part 1: A Case for Books
Continuing our Ask the Librarian post from two weeks ago, Kelly had asked about books on volcanoes, the human body, and dams & bridges to read aloud to her 7 year old son. Here are our picks for the Human Body: The True Book of Your Body and You by Alice Hinshaw Young readers may… Read More Top Picks: Human Body
Sometimes in homeschooling our children we lose sight of our goals in the day to day work. On the other hand, we also tend to overlook the importance of each small lesson in our eagerness to see results. Charlotte Mason encouraged us to spread a feast before our children, to give them a taste of a wide variety of… Read More The Tortoise and the Hare
Suspecting many of you share this mother’s concerns, I have decided to quote her letter in full here: Dear Liz and Emily, “I want to first say how much I appreciate your blog and your vision (I’d like to call it a ministry!). My 10 year old daughter is the only reader child in our house… Read More There is a Time for Reading
“I have four children and will be studying the Civil War with my two oldest, boys who are 8 and 6 years old. We will mostly read the books together aloud; however, my 8 year old is a voracious reader so some longer chapter book recommendations for him will be helpful as well. Our family… Read More Top Picks: The Civil War