Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children's Literature
10 best books like Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children's Literature (Elizabeth Laraway Wilson): Saint George and the Dragon, Sarah, Plain and Tall, James Herriot's Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small, A Child's Garden of Verses, The Read-Aloud Handbook, The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, For the Children's Sake, Honey for a Child's Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life, Charlotte Mason Companion, The Three R's
Saint George and the Dragon
| Author | Margaret Hodges |
| ISBN | 0316367958 |
This special new paperback edition of St. George and the Dragon commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book. Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0618062416 |
This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.
Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes...
| Author | James Herriot |
| ISBN | 0312085125 |
James Herriot's Treasury for Children collects all of the beloved veterinarian's delightful tales for young readers. From the springtime frolic of Oscar, Cat-About-Town to the yuletide warmth of The Christmas Day Kitten, these stories-radiantly illustrated by Peter Barrett and Ruth Brown-are...
A Child's Garden of Verses
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0689823827 |
Up into the cherry tree
Who should climb but little me?
I held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad on foreign lands.
Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson...
| Author | Jim Trelease |
| ISBN | 0143037390 |
A New York Times and million copy bestseller, the classic handbook on reading aloud to children—revised and updated
Recommended by “Dear Abby”, The New York Times and The Washington Post, for three decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's...
| Author | Susan Wise Bauer |
| ISBN | 0393059278 |
This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of education—the trivium—which organizes learning around the maturing capacity...
| Author | Susan Schaeffer Macaulay |
Every parent and teacher wants to give their children the best education possible. Everyone would like education to be a joyous adventure and celebration of life, as well as a solid preparation for living. Sadly, most education today falls far short of this goal.
But as Susan Schaeffer Macaulay...
| Author | Gladys M. Hunt |
| ISBN | 0310242460 |
Family favorite now revised and updated, including an annotated list of books for ages 0-12
Everything parents need to know to find the best books for their children
Since its publication in 1969, this has been an essential guide for parents wanting to find the best books for their...
| Author | Karen Andreola |
| ISBN | 1889209023 |
This is a thorough chapter-by-chapter overview of the inspiring teaching principles of Christian educator Charlotte Mason from the original Charlotte Mason authority, speaker, and columnist, Karen Andreola. With warmth and humor, Karen provides a wealth of insight, practical advice, and narratives,...
| Author | Ruth Beechick |
| ISBN | 0880620749 |
The Three R's Now all in one book! A Home Start in Reading A Strong Start in Language An Easy Start in Arithmetic Three resources in one READING, WRITING, and ARITHMETIC! Learn how to take the mystery out of teaching the early grades with this practical, down-to-earth guidebook from Ruth Beechick. The...
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
| Author | Sarah Mackenzie |
| ISBN | 0310350328 |
Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids’ academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face life’s...
| Author | Elaine Cooper |
| ISBN | 1581342594 |
They're hallmarks of childhood. The endless "why" questions. The desire to touch and taste everything. The curiosity and the observations.
It can't be denied-children have an inherent desire to know. Teachers and parents can either encourage this natural inquisitiveness or squelch it....
| Author | Cathy Duffy |
| ISBN | 0805431381 |
The key to successful home education, homeschool veterans will tell you, is determining your educational philosophy and marrying it to your child’s learning style. Then you can make an informed decision in choosing the right educational curriculum for the child. This is the formula for success.In...
| Author | Gyo Fujikawa |
| ISBN | 0760734003 |
William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems—first published in 1969—are among literature’s most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawa’s appealing illustrations depict children of all races sweetly interacting, as well as an engagingly rendered...
Was ist der Sinn deines Lebens? Falls Jonathan Grief jemals die Antwort auf diese Frage wusste, hat er sie schon lange vergessen.
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