Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination
10 best books like Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination (Vigen Guroian): The Princess and the Goblin, The Little White Horse, Understood Betsy, Father and I Were Ranchers, Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition, Mere Motherhood: Morning times, nursery rhymes, and my journey toward sanctification, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
The Princess and the Goblin
| Author | George MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0140367462 |
Published in 1872, The Princess and the Goblin is one of the first books in the modern fantasy genre. This book had tremendous and very visible influence on all the (now much more famous) authors that came after it.
It is of course very dated. It does not match the standards that fantasy have created...
| Author | Elizabeth Goudge |
| ISBN | 0142300276 |
In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, her family's ancestral home in an charmed village in England's West Country, and she feels as if she’s entered Paradise. Her new guardian, her uncle Sir Benjamin, is kind and funny; the Manor itself feels like home...
| Author | Dorothy Canfield Fisher |
| ISBN | 1887840133 |
For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to her "horrid Putney cousins." But when her aunt can no longer care for her, Elizabeth Ann must leave her sheltered life to live in the wilds of Vermont with those distant relatives.
In the beginning,...
Father and I Were Ranchers
| Author | Ralph Moody |
| ISBN | 0803281781 |
Ralph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes, the pleasures and perils of ranching in the early twentieth century are experienced... auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms all give authentic...
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...
| Author | Cindy Rollins |
| ISBN | 0986325740 |
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...
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...
Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0802829961 |
One of the first women to graduate from Oxford, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to be "feminine." Sayers kept in mind that she was first of all a human being and aimed to be true not so much to her gender as to her humanity. The role of both men and...
The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
| Author | Julie Bogart |
| ISBN | 0143133225 |
A joyful and accessible approach to homeschooling that harnesses children's natural curiosity and makes learning a part of everyday life, whether they're in elementary or high school
Parents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids....
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
| Author | Meghan Cox Gurdon |
| ISBN | 0062562835 |
A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,...
Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy
| Author | Jamie C. Martin |
| ISBN | 0310354978 |
Motherhood is beautiful; motherhood is hard. All moms understand this paradoxical truth. Yet introverted mothers face unique challenges. When our quiet nature collides with our often loud role, frustration and guilt result. We wonder why motherhood feels at odds with our personality, and in our...
Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
| Author | Sarah Clarkson |
| ISBN | 1496425804 |
When you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for truth and goodness? Do you secretly relate to Belle's delight in the library in Beauty and the Beast?
If so, you may be on your way to being a book girl.
Books were always Sarah Clarkson's delight....
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1593760787 |
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers each of her two husbands, and all places and community connections threatened...
On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
| Author | Karen Swallow Prior |
| ISBN | 1587433966 |
Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading good literature well requires...
When things get bad, I take out the bourbon. When, as occasionally happens, time drags on and things don't get any better, I put the bourbon away and take out C. S. Lewis. His books are short, readable, and filled with an uncanny amount of wisdom. His genius, and the reason he's always been a comfort to me,...
The Lifegiving Parent: Giving Your Child a Life Worth Living for Christ
| Author | Clay Clarkson |
| ISBN | 1496421973 |
From the family that brought you The Lifegiving Home and The Lifegiving Table, discover how you can become a parent who gives your child a life worth living for Christ.
In today's world, it's easy to become overwhelmed and even paralyzed by the constant flow of parenting advice. We're flooded with...
