Famous Men of The Middle Ages/Renaissance & Reformation

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  • July 15, 2013 at 4:09 pm
    Stacy Montgomery
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    Can someone please tell me why the Greenleaf Press books edited by Robert Shearer are chosen to be used opposed to the same book published Memoria Press? I’m at a local homeschool bookstore comparing both right now and the only differences I see are better pictures in the Memoria Press ones and looks like edited stories in the Robert Shearer one. I’m curious 🙂 Also, has anyone used The Story of Old France and The Story of the English by H.A. Guerber, instead?

    Thanks

    Stacy

    July 15, 2013 at 4:17 pm
    Carla
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    I can’t speak to why they were chosen, but I can tell you that we’ve been using the Greenleaf Famous Men books for years (we started before Memoria Press was publishing them) and we’ve always been very happy with the quality of the Greenleaf books. From doing some reading about the differences, I have read reviews that say that the Greenleaf books are more “living book” style rather than workbook style.  I didn’t see any reason to reinvent the wheel (or spend more money) and replace the books I had already invested in, so we’re sticking to Greenleaf.  I’m also very grateful to the Shearers for re-publishing the books in the first place and making them more accessible to homeschoolers, so I like that they get some profit from my purchases.

    July 15, 2013 at 4:23 pm
    Stacy Montgomery
    Moderator

    Thanks Carla! I didn’t know that Greenleaf published it first. I love the pictures in the Memoria one but didn’t want to get it home and find some wording or story I’d rather not have read and was possibly one cut from the Greenleaf one….or something like that 🙂 I may buy the Memoria Press one used here, just for the art quality…and just do our readings from the Shearer one!

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