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Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading

10 best books like Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading (Lawrence Goldstone): 100 Best Books for Children, 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, The Three R's, The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education, Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition, Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace, Mere Motherhood: Morning times, nursery rhymes, and my journey toward sanctification

100 Best Books for Children
AuthorAnita Silvey
ISBN0618278893
By selecting only 100 “best books” Anita Silvey distinguishes her guide from all the others and makes it possible to give young readers their literary heritage in the childhood years.
The books we hear or read when we are children stay with us all our lives. If we miss them when we are young, we’ll...
The Read-Aloud Handbook
AuthorJim Trelease
ISBN0143037390
 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...
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
AuthorSusan Wise Bauer
ISBN0393059278
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...
For the Children's Sake
AuthorSusan 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...
Honey for a Child's Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life
AuthorGladys M. Hunt
ISBN0310242460
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...
The Three R's
AuthorRuth Beechick
ISBN0880620749
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 Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education
AuthorLeigh A. Bortins
In the past, correct spelling, the multiplication tables, the names of the state capitals and the American presidents were basics that all children were taught in school. Today, many children graduate without this essential knowledge. Most curricula today follow a haphazard sampling of topics...
Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition
AuthorKaren Glass
The educators of ancient Greece and Rome gave the world a vision of what education should be. The medieval and Renaissance teachers valued their insights and lofty goals. Christian educators such as Augustine, Erasmus, Milton, and Comenius drew from the teaching of Plato, Aristotle, and Quintilian...
Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace
AuthorSarah Mackenzie
In the book of Philippians we are told to be anxious over nothing, and yet we are anxious over everything. We worry that our students will be "behind," that they won't score well on the SAT, get into a good college, or read enough of the Great Books. Our souls are restless, anxiously wondering if something...
Mere Motherhood: Morning times, nursery rhymes, and my journey toward sanctification
AuthorCindy Rollins
ISBN0986325740
It was back in the 1980's when Cindy Rollins, then a new mom in search of the best ways to teach her baby son, first heard of homeschooling. Thirty years and nine children later, Cindy has become a popular blogger, podcaster, and award winning teacher. This is her story. It's a story of big families and cross-country...
Uncovering the Logic of English
AuthorDenise Eide
ISBN1936706008
Multiple award-winning book on reading and spelling education that will transform how you think about English! Discover the method that Dr. Temple Grandin called "really helpful for teaching reading to children who are mathematical pattern thinkers..."

For the past 70 years students...
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What Really Matters About Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
AuthorJeffrey D. Wilhelm
ISBN0545052564
Bring new power and purpose to the study of literature with innovative tools and strategies that deepen students’ understanding of literary elements and help them apply that understanding to their reading as well as their writing. Rich, original passages illuminate the intricacies of character,...
The Living Page: Keeping Notebooks With Charlotte Mason
AuthorLaurie Bestvater
ISBN0615834108
"We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life." Charlotte Mason ~~~~~~~ "Composition books and blank journals are readily available at every big box and corner store, available so inexpensively as to be common...
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
AuthorAnthony M. Esolen
ISBN1935191888
I tend to enjoy most books I read (easily entertained, I guess), but don't let my low book standards detract from my statement that this is one of the best books I've ever read. While it appears to be a book on child-raising (and sort of is), I'd recommend it to anyone, parent or not. The author is clearly brilliant,...
Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
AuthorTracy Lee Simmons
ISBN1882926730
Discussions of educational reform often involve windy talk of a "return to the classics," yet rarely do would-be reformers go so far as to advocate a return to education in the classical languages themselves. That is a program that strikes even the most stalwart critics of contemporary educational...
Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education
AuthorDavid V. Hicks
ISBN0761814671
A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience,...
How to Get Your Child to Love Reading
AuthorEsmé Raji Codell
ISBN1565123085
Are children reading enough? Not according to most parents and teachers, who know that reading aloud with children fosters a lifelong love of books, ensures better standardized test scores, promotes greater success in school, and helps instill the values we most want to pass on.

Esmé Raji...
Caught Up in a Story: Fostering a Storyformed Life of Great Books & Imagination with Your Children
AuthorSarah Clarkson
What is imagination, and why is it vital to childhood education? What role do great books play in shaping a child's perception of self, life, and even God?

In "Caught Up in a Story," Sarah Clarkson answers these vital questions, demonstrating how great books can be a parent's best ally in shaping...
Making the Match: The Right Book for the Right Reader at the Right Time, Grades 4-12
AuthorTeri S. Lesesne
ISBN1571103813
What do adolescents care about? Chatting on-line with friends, movies, their favorite bands . . . but many are also avid readers. What motivates some of these "typical teens" to become lifelong readers and others to slide by with the minimum amount of assigned reading? Teri Lesesne says the key is finding...
Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children's Literature
AuthorElizabeth Laraway Wilson
ISBN1581341989
A love for reading is one of the most precious gifts that we can give children. It nurtures their imagination and creativity, lets them explore other worlds, and opens their minds to new truths and knowledge in appealing, inspiring ways. But how can we sort through thousands of children's books to discover...
Books That Build Character: A Guide to Teaching Your Child Moral Values Through Stories
AuthorWilliam Kilpatrick
ISBN0671884239
Here is a family guide to classic novels, contemporary fiction, myths and legends, science fiction and fantasy, folktales, Bible stories, picture books, biographies, holiday stories, and many other books that celebrate virtues and values.
There are more than 300 titles to choose from, each...
Reading Without Limits: A Practical Step-By-Step Guide for Helping Kids Become Lifelong Readers
AuthorMaddie Witter
ISBN1118472152
Help for teachers to significantly raise student achievementThis handy guide and map gives teachers, schools, and districts the help they need to move their kids to the highest level of fervor, stamina, and love of learning and independent thinking. This book provides a unique structure of choice;...
When Children Love to Learn: A Practical Application of Charlotte Mason's Philosophy for Today
AuthorElaine Cooper
ISBN1581342594
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....
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination
AuthorVigen Guroian
ISBN0195117875
Guroian illuminates the complex ways in which fairy tales and fantasies educate the moral imagination from earliest childhood. Examining a wide range of stories - from Pinocchio and The Little Mermaid to Charlotte's Web, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Wind in the Willows, and the Narnia Chronicles - he...
Real Learning: Education In The Heart Of The Home
AuthorElizabeth Foss
ISBN0971889511
This book is not about "school at home"--it is about something better. It is about Real Learning. Homeschooling pioneer Charlotte Mason wrote with great wisdom about providing young minds with a living books education. She urged teachers to present great ideas and stand back, allowing students to...
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