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Organizing a Large Home Library
Sonya talks with Karen Smith about how she organizes her large home library.
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Category Living Books
Posts and articles about identifying and using good living books that teem with ideas, not twaddle.
Pre-Reading Your Students’ Books
Sonya chats with Amber O'Neal Johnston about why it's important to pre-read and strategies for staying ahead.
Organizing Your Home Library
Sonya and Laura discuss how they organize their home libraries.
Favorite Living Books about Europe
Here's how to take a trip to Europe through some great living books.
Favorite Living Books about North America
Sonya shares her favorite living books about North America.
Favorite Living Books About Asia
Sonya shares some great living books about the continent of Asia.
Favorite Living Books about Africa
Sonya shares some of her favorite living books to help your children learn about the people who live on the continent of Africa.
Favorite Living Science Books for Grades 4–6
Karen Smith shares some of her favorite living science books for grades 4–6.
Favorite Living Books about the Middle East
Sonya shares her favorite living books about the Middle East.
What a Living Book Sounds Like
It seems like one of the hardest concepts to wrap your head around when you’re homeschooling with the Charlotte Mason Method is the concept of living ideas versus dry facts. Now, we give our children living ideas in several ways;…
Favorite Living History Books on Ancient Rome
Today we’re wrapping up our favorite history books series. We’ve covered five history time periods so far: Middle Ages and Renaissance, Early Modern, Modern Times, Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Greece. Today we’ll share our top living books for studying Ancient…
Books as Windows
In the last post, we looked at how books can help our children form relations with themselves, and we talked about those books as mirrors. Today, we want to expand on another aspect of that and how books can help…
Books as Mirrors
The books that we give to our children help them form relations, those important relations that Charlotte Mason talked about so much, relating with God, relating with the universe around us, and relating with people, and that’s the aspect that…
Favorite Modern Times History Books for Grades 1–3
There are a lot of books available on modern history (about 1850 to present day). The trick is to find the good ones, the ones that are appropriate for those younger grades mentally and emotionally. Some very difficult events occurred…
Favorite Modern Times History Books for the Family
I must admit that I’m somewhat partial to old books. But when you’re teaching modern history, you have to find some new favorites. And I’m happy to tell you about some real gems that I’ve found and can heartily recommend…
Favorite Early Modern History Books for Grades 10–12
I remember my high school history books. They were nothing like these beauties! My history textbooks were full of summaries and facts. These are full of ideas and people and fascinating narratives that make the events of the past come…
Favorite Early Modern Books for Grades 7–9
I love being surrounded by great books! My father recently made me two more bookcases, so I’ve been happily reshuffling and reorganizing my collection of history and literature books. That’s one of my favorite tasks: handling and organizing my books.…
Favorite Early Modern Books for Grades 4–6
The Early Modern time period includes many fascinating people and events. And what better way to study them than through living books—books that make them come alive in your child’s mind; books that touch their emotions and fire their imaginations;…
How to Read History
When I was a little girl, I would go visit my grandparents once or twice a year. I quickly figured out that things at my grandparents’ house were different from my own house. They had different-looking furniture; they watched different…
Favorite Early Modern Books for Grades 1–3
Today I’d like to share some of my favorite living books for early elementary students, those in grades 1–3, covering history during the years of 1550–1850 or so. I’m going to share titles for both American history and world history…