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Re-post: What’s In a Living Book, or, Why We Collect the Books We Do

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

Christmas, Journal

Third Week of Advent

Christmas gifts and Christmas journeys fill our thoughts and days this month. We share this experience with thousands who have gone before, not the least of which was the mother of our Lord, as these poems acknowledge: Mary’s BurdenByEleanor Farjeon My Baby and Burden,Tomorrow the mornI shall go lighterAnd you will be born. I shall… Read More Third Week of Advent

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New Offering from Living Library Press!

Living Library Press is pleased to announce our newest reprint of a previously out-of-print living book! Rain, Hail, Sleet, and Snow by Nancy Larrick is a living science book for elementary readers. Couples with Nicole Williams’ Living Science Study Guide: Elementary Weather, this book makes for a complete unit on Weather for upper-elementary students.

Christmas, Journal

Second Week of Advent

Perhaps nothing more obviously demonstrates the joy of the Christmas season than the constant presence of music. The contagious joy in the world is felt and mimicked even by the secular celebrations that surround us with songs everywhere we go. Unique to Christmas is its carols, those special songs telling and retelling the joy and… Read More Second Week of Advent