“If you were forced to move your family from your home to a motor home and you could only bring 10 books other than the Bible, as homeschoolers, what 10 books would you bring?”
If you read my blog post about home libraries last week, you know that I am a huge advocate of children growing up in a print-rich environment. But what if you do not have the physical space to build a home library?
Even if I made great use of the public library, the Internet and e-readers, there would still be some books that I would rather own in physical form.
How about you? What are the top books that you would want to have in your home? Of course, it will be different for each family, as we all have children of different ages and bents.
I thought it would be fun to hear everyone’s choices, so I’m having a little giveaway over at my blog today. I’m sharing my top 12 books and if you share yours, I’ll enter you into my giveaway for James Herriot’s Treasury for Chidlren (which is on my list!)
Wow, that is a tough one. Here I am re-doing our home library and as I am trying to get it all to fit nice and neat on the shelves, I am trying to figure out which 12 books we could live without!
For the littles, it would have to be:
Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter
Winnie the Pooh Complete Collection
Raggedy Ann and Andy Collection
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
Time for Bed
The Big Yawn
a set of d’Aulaire American biographies.
If I could, I would also choose the Millers story books like School Days with the Millers and Wisdom and the Millers.
I had a really hard time coming up with my list, because instead of just a list of “favorites”, I had to ask myself if there was a good reason for keeping a hard copy in the house of each particular book above other books.
You can get almost anything from the library or an e-reader, so it’s a challenge to think about, isn’t it?